J60 Hymns & Carols (Carvals)

Carvals (or Carols) are the 'long metrical compositions originally intended as narratives of the Nativity of the Saviour, but developing into general ecstasies of religious emotion or disquisitions upon religious doctrine, which were customarily sung in the Manx churches on the eve of Christmas Day'.

Online Pages

Carvals:

• Manx Carol Manx Soc vol xvi p106
• A.W. Moore Carvalyn Gailkagh, 1891
• E. C. Quiggin Literary Manx and the Language of the Carvals. Mannin #1 p35, 1913
• P. W. Caine Manx Carvals and their Writers Mannin #2 p77/Nov 1913.
• P W Caine Manx Carols and their Writers, Proc IoMNHASoc vol 2 #4 p393, 1920
• A.G. Gilchrist Manx Carvals The Choir, pp223/5, 1922
• C I Paton Manx Carvals and Carval Books Proc IoMNHASoc vol 2 #4 p480-501 , 1925 

Hymns:

• Notes to Lioar dy Hymnyn

Psalms

• Introduction to Psalms of David

Offline References:

•  Sixteen Carvals Journal of Folk Song Society #29 1925