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CHRISTMAS

Appears in 646 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Frederick Handel Tune Sources: Weyman's Melodia Sacra Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 34517 65123 34555 Used With Text: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

FRENCH CAROL

Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 107 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mark Blankenship Tune Sources: Trad. French carol Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 15645 34453 21156 Used With Text: Sing We Now of Christmas

GLORIA

Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refain Appears in 228 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edward Shippen Barnes; Austin C. Lovelace Tune Sources: French carol melody Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33355 43323 53213 Used With Text: Angels We Have Heard on High

MENDELSSOHN

Meter: 7.7.7.7 D with refrain Appears in 646 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felix Mendelssohn; William H. Cummings Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51171 33255 54323 Used With Text: Hark! the Herald Angels Sing

[Away in a manger]

Appears in 225 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Luther Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55433 21176 55565 Used With Text: Away in a Manger

ES IST EIN' ROS' ENTSPRUNGEN

Meter: 7.6.7.6.6.7.6 Appears in 180 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Michael Praetorius Tune Sources: Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengesäng, Cologne, 1599 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55565 53432 17155 Used With Text: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

IN DULCI JUBILO

Meter: 6.6.7.2.7.7.8.5.5 Appears in 211 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Gary Alan Smith Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11134 56551 13456 Used With Text: Good Christian Friends, Rejoice

CHRISTMAS SONG

Meter: 6.6.6.6.12.12 Appears in 75 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Karl P. Harrington Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 56516 75551 35 Used With Text: There's a Song in the Air

ANTIOCH

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 917 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell Mason; G. F. Handel Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 17654 32156 67711 Used With Text: Joy to the World

GARTAN

Meter: 6.7.6.7 Appears in 27 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: David Evans Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12365 55553 23555 Used With Text: Love Came Down at Christmas

REGENT SQUARE

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 895 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry T. Smart Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53153 21566 51432 Used With Text: Angels from the Realms of Glory

GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN

Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 128 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Farley Smith Tune Sources: Afro-American spiritual Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 33216 51222 12323 Used With Text: Go, Tell It on the Mountain

KINGS OF ORIENT

Meter: 8.8.4.4.6 with refrain Appears in 200 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John H. Hopkins, Jr. Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 54312 32154 31232 Used With Text: We Three Kings

ST. LOUIS

Meter: 8.6.8.6.7.6.8.6 Appears in 451 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lewis H. Redner Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33323 54621 712 Used With Text: O Little Town of Bethlehem

FRENCH CAROL

Meter: 11.11.12.10.11 Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Walter Ehret, 1918- Tune Sources: Traditional French Melody Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 15543 45432 32171 Used With Text: Sing We Now of Christmas

DIVINUM MYSTERIUM

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7 Appears in 168 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: C. Winfred Douglas Tune Sources: Plainsong, Mode V Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 12343 23213 45653 Used With Text: Of the Father’s Love Begotten

THE FIRST NOEL

Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 261 hymnals Tune Sources: Traditional English carol; harm. from Christmas Carols New and Old, 1871 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 32123 45671 76567 Used With Text: The First Noel

IRBY

Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 285 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry John Gauntlett Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 57111 71221 13533 Used With Text: Once In Royal David's City

STILLE NACHT

Meter: Irregular Appears in 663 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Franz Gruber Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 56535 65322 77115 Used With Text: Silent Night, Holy Night

CRADLE SONG

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 135 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William James Kirkpatrick Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51123 11345 56423 Used With Text: Away in a Manger

[There's a star in the East on Christmas morn]

Appears in 37 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Joseph Joubert Tune Sources: Negro Spiritual Tune Key: A Flat Major Incipit: 17175 11555 33212 Used With Text: Rise Up, Shepherd, and Follow

WINCHESTER OLD

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 327 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alan Gray, 1855-1935 Tune Sources: Thomas Este's Psalter , 1592 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13321 44323 55453 Used With Text: While shepherds watched their flocks by night

PICARDY

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 241 hymnals Tune Sources: Traditional French melody, 17th C.; harm. English Hymnal, 1906 Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 12345 54555 567 Used With Text: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

W ZLOBIE LEZY

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.8.7.7 Appears in 111 hymnals Tune Sources: Polish; harm. Psalter Hymnal, 1987 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55117 12234 54321 Used With Text: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

GREENSLEEVES

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 172 hymnals Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 13456 54271 23117 Used With Text: What Child Is This

TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 81 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ernest C. MacMillan, 1893-1983 Tune Sources: Piae Cantiones 1582 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11121 15656 71111 Used With Text: Gentle Mary Laid Her Child

BUNESSAN

Meter: 5.5.5.3 D Appears in 265 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lawrence Francis Bartlett, 1933 Tune Sources: Gaelic melody Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 13512 76565 12356 Used With Text: Child in the manger

CAROL

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 484 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard Storrs Willis Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53221 65655 67112 Used With Text: It Came upon the Midnight Clear

YORKSHIRE

Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 139 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Wainwright, 1723-68 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 11234 53456 56712 Used With Text: Christians, awake!

ADESTES FIDELES

Meter: Irregular Appears in 1,384 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John F. Wade Tune Sources: Harm. from Collections of Motetts or Antiphons, 1792 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11512 55323 43211 Used With Text: O Come, All Ye Faithful

EARTH AND ALL STARS

Appears in 52 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: David Johnson, 1922-1987; Dale Grotenhuis, 1931-2012 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 15613 17665 11132 Used With Text: Earth and All Stars

TERRA BEATA

Meter: 6.6.8.6 D Appears in 240 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Franklin L. Sheppard Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 12353 21234 65326 Used With Text: "Fear Not!" the Angel Said

ODE TO JOY

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 490 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827; Christopher Tambling Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33455 43211 23322 Used With Text: Fill your hearts with joy and gladness

GENEVAN 68

Meter: 8.8.7.8.8.7 D Appears in 121 hymnals Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11231 34554 32134 Used With Text: Approach Our God with Songs of Praise

CRANHAM

Meter: Irregular Appears in 78 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Gustav Holst Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 34532 12326 23453 Used With Text: In the Bleak Midwinter

JUNGST

Appears in 36 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hugo Jungst Tune Sources: Traditional German melody Tune Key: a minor Incipit: 32177 12332 17712 Used With Text: How Great Our Joy

NUN KOMM DER HEIDEN HEILAND

Meter: 7.7.7.7 Appears in 125 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Seth Calvisius Tune Sources: Enchiridion Oder Handbüchlein, Erfurt, 1524 Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 11732 12113 43453 Used With Text: Savior of the Nations, Come

WALTHAM

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 514 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Calkin Incipit: 13233 43445 17665 Used With Text: I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day

SUSSEX CAROL

Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8 Appears in 80 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams Tune Sources: Traditional English carol Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 55345 32127 11234 Used With Text: On Christmas Night All Christians Sing

CHRISTMAS HYMN

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 7 hymnals Tune Sources: Hauser's Hesperian Harp, 1858 (alto and treble); Wyeth's Repository of Sacred Music Part Second, 1820 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11554 33321 23211 Used With Text: Christmas Hymn

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