For the music, they chose ‘Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ... Alongside the festive lyrics to ‘Jingle Bells’, we are offered a strangely syncopated line of endless perfect fourth jumps in the ...

“Jingle Bells” is a classic song sung at Christmas time, but it didn’t start out that way. First published in 1857, it was written by James Lord Pierpont, to be sung on Thanksgiving — not ...

The holiday classic "Jingle Bells" may have you dashing through the snow and longing for a ride on a horse-drawn sleigh, but the 19th-century song was never intended to celebrate the Christmas season.