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[O how shall I keep my Christmas?]

[O how shall I keep my Christmas?]

Composer: John Worcester
Published in 4 hymnals


Printable scores: PDF, MusicXML
Audio files: MIDI

Composer: John Worcester

Born: Feb­ru­a­ry 13, 1834, Bos­ton, Mass­a­chu­setts. Died: May 2, 1900, New­ton­ville, Mass­a­chu­setts. Worcester stu­died at the Law­rence Sci­en­tif­ic School of Har­vard Un­i­ver­si­ty, giv­ing at­ten­tion es­pe­cial­ly to an­a­to­my, phys­i­ol­o­gy, chem­is­try and re­lat­ed sub­jects. He was a close stu­dent, giv­ing much time and thought to the stu­dy of Cor­res­pond­enc­es, or the re­la­tion of the world with­out to the world with­in, and the use of Scrip­tures of na­tur­al ob­jects as sym­bols of spir­it­u­al life. As a re­sult of this stu­dy he pub­lished: The An­i­mals of the Bi­ble; Plants of the Bi­ble, and Phys­i­ol­o­gy Cor­res­pon­dences. Lat­er h… Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title: [O how shall I keep my Christmas?]
Composer: John Worcester
Incipit: 51112 34311 11166
Key: G Major
Copyright: Public Domain
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Media

The Cyber Hymnal #4988
Text: O How Shall I Keep My Christmas?
  • Adobe Acrobat image (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer score (NWC)
  • XML score (XML)
The Cyber Hymnal #12948
Text: Wondrous New Year
  • PDF (PDF)
  • Noteworthy Composer Score (NWC)
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Instances

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The Cyber Hymnal #4988

The Cyber Hymnal #4988
TextScoreAudio

The Cyber Hymnal #12948

The Cyber Hymnal #12948
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