Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrainAppears in 167 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Stainer, 1840-1901Tune Sources: English melody, 16th C.Tune Key: e minorIncipit: 13456 54271 23117 Used With Text: What Child Is This
Meter: 8.7.8.7 DAppears in 461 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, 1756-1791Tune Sources: Arr. in Joshua Leavitt's The Christian Lyre, 1831; rev.Tune Key: A MajorIncipit: 11113 22112 22243 Used With Text: Jesus, I My Cross Have Taken
Meter: 11.11.11.5Appears in 160 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Crüger, 1598-1662Tune Sources: The Lutheran Hymnal, 1941 (Setting)Tune Key: g minorIncipit: 11175 12334 22345 Used With Text: O Dearest Jesus, What Law Hast Thou Broken
Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrainAppears in 83 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Goss, 1800-80Tune Key: G MajorIncipit: 12176 55124 33231 Used With Text: See amid the Winter's Snow
Meter: 8.8.8.8Appears in 263 hymnalsTune Sources: "Geistliche Lieder," Leipzig, 1539Tune Key: C MajorIncipit: 17675 67111 55345 Used With Text: From Heaven Above to Earth I Come
Meter: 4.4.11 DAppears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Kenneth T. Kosche, b. 1947Tune Key: D MajorIncipit: 33212 34323 56714 Used With Text: O Jesus Christ, Thy Manger Is
Meter: 7.5.7.5Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John L. Bell; Graham MauleTune Key: D MajorIncipit: 34514 22345 17677 Used With Text: Take This Moment, Sign, and Space
Meter: 8.6.8.6.6.6.6.6Appears in 34 hymnalsTune Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Oh_How_I_Love_Jesus); The Cyber Hymnal (http://www.hymntime.com/tch/htm/o/h/ohiljesu.htm)Tune Key: A Flat MajorIncipit: 13332 31111 22212 Used With Text: Oh, How I Love Jesus
Meter: 10.10.10.10Appears in 4 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Sally Ann MorrisTune Key: A Flat MajorIncipit: 13255 55122 13256 Used With Text: What is the World Like
Meter: IrregularAppears in 17 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: David HaasTune Key: D MajorIncipit: 16561 13565 65353 Used With Text: Holy Is Your Name/Luke 1:46-55
Meter: IrregularAppears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Carolyn McDade; David KaiTune Key: G MajorIncipit: 33231 71655 53332 Used With Text: Long before the Night (This Ancient Love)
Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6Appears in 14 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: B. Gesius, c. 1555-1613Tune Sources: G. P. Telemann's Lieder-buch, 1730 (adapt.)Tune Key: a minorIncipit: 13234 55765 56545 Used With Text: Thy Way and All Thy Sorrows
Appears in 126 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Annabel Morris BuchananTune Sources: Traditional Southern folk-hymn; Collected by Annabel Morris BuchananTune Key: d minor or modalIncipit: 11724 54211 72576 Used With Text: What wondrous love is this
Meter: 4.4.11.4.4.11Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann CrügerTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 31123 44356 53235 Used With Text: O Jesus Christ, Thy Manger Is
Meter: 8.8.9.8.8.8.9.8Appears in 6 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. E. F. WeyseTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 31353 12316 65432 Used With Text: Christmas Is Here With Joy Untold
Meter: 6.6.8.6Appears in 1,311 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hans Georg Nägeli; Lowell MasonTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 33132 72111 61151 Used With Text: Give Thou Thy Youth To God
Meter: 10.10.11.11Appears in 768 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Michael Haydn, 1737-1806; William GardinerTune Sources: Arr.: Sacred Melodies , London: 1815Tune Key: G MajorIncipit: 51123 14432 51123 Used With Text: The Candle Of Hope
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: J. S. BachTune Sources: From the four-part chorale (BWV 400), J. S. BachTune Key: D MajorUsed With Text: Two-Stanza Introits for the Chief Festivals of the Christian Year
Meter: 8.6.6.7.6Appears in 1 hymnalTune Sources: 15th century Latin Hymn; M. Weisse's Gesangbuch, 1531Tune Key: g minorIncipit: 11557 71231 71242 Used With Text: To Us a Child Is Born This Night
Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7Appears in 31 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Robert P. StewartTune Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Precious_Child_So_Sweetly_Sleeping); The Cyber Hymnal (http://hymntime.com/tch/htm/p/r/prechild.htm)Tune Key: D MajorIncipit: 55561 53511 22443 Used With Text: Precious Child, So Sweetly Sleeping
Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Theodore Edson PerkinsTune Key: C MajorIncipit: 11556 63456 71222 Used With Text: The Angel's Proclamation
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: S T Kimbrough, Jr.; Timothy E. KimbroughTune Key: C MajorIncipit: 33451 21212 53334 Used With Text: Whose child is this?
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8Appears in 1 hymnalTune Sources: Maintzisch Gesangbuch , 1661Tune Key: G MajorIncipit: 11127 16553 2125 Used With Text: What Star Is This
Meter: 10.10.10.10Appears in 3 hymnalsTune Sources: Hymns of Consecration and Fait h, by James Mountain (London: Marshall Brothers, new & enlarged edition, 1902), number 130Tune Key: g minorIncipit: 11123 15432 11123 Used With Text: Hereafter Thou Shalt Know
Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6.7.6Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Andrew L. ByersTune Sources: Timeless Truths (http://library.timelesstruths.org/music/Consolation)Tune Key: D Flat MajorUsed With Text: Consolation
Appears in 126 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Christopher Edwin WillingTune Key: C MajorIncipit: 55651 32123 45653 Used With Text: The newborn Child this early morn
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Weston Priory; Gregory Norbet; Craig S. Kingsbury, b. 1952Tune Key: F Major or modalIncipit: 53323 21231 16653 Used With Text: That There May Be Bread
Appears in 17 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Charles Frederick WeigeleTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 33333 44422 22233 Used With Text: Living for Jesus (Weigele)
Appears in 16 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Tom Colvin, b. 1925Tune Sources: Malawi traditionalTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 53453 13234 27534 Used With Text: That Boy-Child of Mary
Meter: 8.8.8.6Appears in 2 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edward A. FreemanTune Key: G MajorIncipit: 11321 52222 34332 Used With Text: Just As Thou Art
Meter: 8.6.8.6 DAppears in 29 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: D. B. ThompsonTune Sources: Early American melodyTune Key: C MajorIncipit: 51132 16617 65551 Used With Text: How Happy Every Child of Grace
Meter: 7.7.7.7 DAppears in 109 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Walter Bond GilbertTune Key: G MajorIncipit: 56723 43235 43234 Used With Text: Lord of Earth, Thy Forming Hand
Meter: 8.6.8.4Appears in 9 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John GossTune Key: A Flat MajorIncipit: 51354 32176 17651 Used With Text: The Guest Chamber
Meter: 10.10.10.8Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John L. Bell, b. 1949Tune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 12323 43455 12323 Used With Text: The Aye Carol
Meter: 7.6.7.6.8.8.8.6Appears in 3 hymnalsTune Sources: "Clausener Gesangbuch," 1653Tune Key: G MajorIncipit: 51712 32254 32151 Used With Text: To Thee My Heart I Offer
Meter: 8.7.8.7.6.6.6.7Appears in 642 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: M. LutherTune Key: C MajorIncipit: 11156 71765 17656 Used With Text: A Mighty Fortress Is Our Lord
Appears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Chas. H. GabrielTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 33322 15465 13323 Used With Text: Mind what your Mamma Says
Meter: 8.8.8.8.4Appears in 2 hymnalsTune Sources: Danish Folk MelodyTune Key: B Flat MajorIncipit: 31355 31517 6565 Used With Text: God's Little Child, What Troubles Thee
Meter: 8.8.6.8.8.6Appears in 210 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell MasonTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 13332 34536 66543 Used With Text: Lord Jesus, Thou Dost Keep Thy Child