Text:In the Bleak Midwinter
Author:Christina G. Rossetti
Tune:CRANHAM
Composer:Gustav T. Holst

154. In the Bleak Midwinter

Text Information
First Line: In the bleak midwinter, frosty wind made moan
Title: In the Bleak Midwinter
Author: Christina G. Rossetti (1872, alt.)
Meter: Irr.
Language: English
Publication Date: 1998
Tune Information
Name: CRANHAM
Composer: Gustav T. Holst
Meter: Irr.
Key: F Major or modal
Source: The English Hymnal, 1906


Tune Information:

Famed English composer Gustav Holst provided the tune CRANHAM when Rossetti's poem was first set to music in The English Hymnal of 1906


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