"Carol of the Bells"

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"Carol of the Bells" was a Christmas carol. The Fifteenth Doctor considered it to be the perfect song for Christmas Eve. (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...{"name":"TCoRR","chaptnum":"Seventeen and Eighteen","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"})

History

On 24 December 2004, a group of carol boys sung "Carol of the Bells" inside the church on Ruby Road. When the Fifteenth Doctor arrived outside the church to save the baby Ruby Sunday from being eaten by the Goblins and to negate a cracked timeline, he heard the carol boys singing the song. After saving Ruby in the space of a mere four minutes, the carol boys were still singing "Carol of the Bells". (PROSE: The Church on Ruby Road ^[+]Loading...{"name":"TCoRR","chaptnum":"Seventeen and Eighteen","1":"The Church on Ruby Road (novelisation)"})

Later, while travelling with the Doctor, Ruby encountered Maestro, god of music, in an alternate 1963 where music had disappeared. Hoping to devour Ruby's music so they could destroy the world, Maestro discovered that the carol was the music inside Ruby's heart, unnerving them as it was a sign of a more powerful entity having been present. (TV: The Devil's Chord ^[+]Loading...["The Devil's Chord (TV story)"])

Behind the scenes

"Carol of the Bells" is a well-known Christmas carol whose lyrics were written by Peter Wilhousky in 1936, while the music itself originated in the 1901 Ukrainian New Year's song "Shchedryk" ("Bountiful Evening") composed by Mykola Leontovych.