Tune Results

ADESTE FIDELES

Meter: 6.6.10.5.6 with refrain Appears in 1,337 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Francis Wade Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Sources: The English Hymnal, 1906, harm. from Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11512 55323 43211 Used With Text: O Come, All Ye Faithful

GLORIA

Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 215 hymnals Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Sources: French carol melody Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33355 43323 53213 Used With Text: Angels We Have Heard on High

STILLE NACHT

Meter: Irregular Appears in 640 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Franz Xaver Gruber Scripture: Luke 2:5-20 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 56535 65322 77115 Used With Text: Silent Night, Holy Night

GREENSLEEVES

Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrain Appears in 167 hymnals Scripture: Luke 2:6-20 Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 13456 54271 23117 Used With Text: What Child Is This

GO TELL IT

Meter: 7.6.7.6 with refrain Appears in 123 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Emily R. Brink Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Sources: African-American spiritual Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33216 51222 12323 Used With Text: Go, Tell It on the Mountain

REGENT SQUARE

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 878 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Thomas Smart Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 53153 21566 51432 Used With Text: Angels, from the Realms of Glory

W ZLOBIE LEZY

Meter: 4.4.7.4.4.7.4.4.4.4.7 Appears in 109 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edith M. G. Reed; Austin C. Lovelace Scripture: Luke 2:6-20 Tune Sources: Polish carol Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 55117 12234 54321 Used With Text: Infant Holy, Infant Lowly

MENDELSSOHN

Meter: 7.7.7.7 D with refrain Appears in 627 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Mendelssohn; William Hayman Cummings Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51171 33255 54323 Used With Text: Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

THE FIRST NOWELL

Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 248 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Healy Willan Scripture: Luke 2:4-15 Tune Sources: English carol; Sandys' Christmas Carols, 1833 Incipit: 32123 45671 76567 Used With Text: The First Nowell

IN DULCI JUBILO

Meter: Irregular Appears in 200 hymnals Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Sources: Traditional German melody, 14th C. Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 11134 56551 13456 Used With Text: Good Christian Friends, Rejoice

VOM HIMMEL HOCH

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 263 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hans Leo Hassler Scripture: Luke 2:10-16 Tune Sources: Schumann's Geistliche Lieder, 1539 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 17675 67111 55345 Used With Text: From Heaven Above

RISE UP, SHEPHERD

Meter: Irregular Appears in 36 hymnals Scripture: Luke 2:15-20 Tune Sources: African-American spiritual Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 16116 16165 55577 Used With Text: There's a Star in the East

CAROL

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 471 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard S. Willis, 1819-1900 Scripture: Luke 2:8-15 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 138 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Wainwright Scripture: Luke 2:17 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 11234 53456 56712 Used With Text: Christians, Awake

CHRISTMAS

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 628 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell Mason Scripture: Luke 2:8-15 Tune Sources: Siroe, by G. F. Handel (from an air in) Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 34517 65123 34555 Used With Text: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

ST. LOUIS

Meter: 8.6.8.6.7.6.8.6 Appears in 435 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lewis H. Redner, 1831-1908 Scripture: Luke 2:1-15 Tune Sources: Service Book and Hymnal, 1958, alt. (Setting) Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33323 54621 712 Used With Text: O Little Town of Bethlehem

HUMILITY

Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrain Appears in 83 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Goss, 1800-80 Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 12176 55124 33231 Used With Text: See amid the Winter's Snow

KINGSFOLD

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 276 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams Scripture: Luke 2:8-15 Tune Sources: English Country Songs, 1893 Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 32111 73343 45543 Used With Text: O Sing a Song of Bethlehem

WINCHESTER OLD

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 320 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Alan Gray Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 Tune Sources: T. Este's The Whole Book of Psalmes, 1592 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13321 44323 55453 Used With Text: While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks

AWAY IN A MANGER

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 210 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: James R. Murray Scripture: Luke 2:16 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55433 21176 55565 Used With Text: Away in a Manger

GOD REST YOU MERRY

Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.6 with refrain Appears in 80 hymnals Scripture: Luke 2:8-16 Tune Sources: English melody, 18th cent. Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 11554 32171 23451 Used With Text: God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen

CRANHAM

Meter: Irregular Appears in 75 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Gustav Theodore Holst Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 34532 12326 23453 Used With Text: In the Bleak Midwinter

[The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy]

Appears in 25 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Diana Kodner, b. 1957 Scripture: Luke 2:7-21 Tune Sources: West Indian carol Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51111 21725 54444 Used With Text: The Virgin Mary Had a Baby Boy

ES IST EIN ROS (Rhythmic)

Meter: 7.6.7.6.6.7.6 Appears in 170 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621 Scripture: Luke 2:1-18 Tune Sources: Alte Catholische Geistliche Kirchengeseng, Köln, 1599 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55565 53432 17155 Used With Text: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming

UNE JEUNE PUCELLE

Meter: 8.6.8.6.8.8 with refrain Appears in 43 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Marty Haugen, b. 1950 Scripture: Luke 2:7-18 Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 51234 32171 1271 Used With Text: 'Twas in the Moon of Wintertime

IRBY

Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7 Appears in 280 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry J. Gauntlett Scripture: Luke 2:18 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 57111 71221 13533 Used With Text: Once in Royal David's City

PERSONENT HODIE

Meter: 6.6.6.6.6 with refrain Appears in 69 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Gustav Theodore Holst Scripture: Luke 2 Tune Sources: Piae Cantiones, 1582 Tune Key: e minor Incipit: 11544 55516 75457 Used With Text: On This Day Earth Shall Ring

CRADLE SONG

Meter: 11.11.11.11 Appears in 135 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William J. Kirkpatrick, 1838-1921; David Willcocks, b. 1919; Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958; Theodore Beck, b. 1929 Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51123 11345 56423 Used With Text: Away in a Manger

JUNGST

Meter: Irregular Appears in 34 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Hugo Jüngst Scripture: Luke 2:20 Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 32177 12332 17712 Used With Text: While by the Sheep We Watched

FRENCH CAROL

Meter: 11.10.10.11 Appears in 103 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Martin Shaw Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Sources: Traditional French carol Tune Key: f minor Incipit: 15645 34453 21156 Used With Text: Sing We Now of Christmas

CALYPSO CAROL

Meter: 9.9.9.7 with refrain Appears in 15 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Michael Perry, 1942-1996; Stephen Coates, 1952- Scripture: Luke 2:1-16 Tune Sources: Other arrangers also Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 55654 32461 72543 Used With Text: See Him Lying on a Bed of Straw

[Cold are the people, winter of life]

Appears in 10 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Daniel Kantor, b. 1960 Scripture: Luke 2 Tune Key: A Major Incipit: 31715 31711 76 Used With Text: Night of Silence

FOREST GREEN

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 249 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958 Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 51112 32345 34312 Used With Text: Two Thousand Years Since Bethlehem

WARUM SOLLT' ICH

Meter: 8.3.3.6 D Appears in 131 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Johann Georg Ebeling Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12323 56556 44533 Used With Text: All My Heart Today Rejoices

I WONDER

Meter: 12.11.11.12 Appears in 18 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Jacob Niles, 1892-1980 Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 Tune Key: g minor Incipit: 51511 32175 34515 Used With Text: I Wonder As I Wander

JOYOUS LIGHT

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 27 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Marty Haugen, b. 1950 Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 12316 65313 51432 Used With Text: Holy Child Within the Manger (Carol at the Manger)

QUEM PASTORES

Meter: 8.8.8.7 Appears in 117 hymnals Scripture: Luke 2:15 Tune Sources: 14th century melody Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 13534 56523 45432 Used With Text: Come, Your Hearts and Voices Raising

ANTIOCH

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 899 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell Mason Scripture: Luke 2:11-15 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 17654 32156 67711 Used With Text: Joy to the World!

NOEL

Meter: 8.6.8.6 D Appears in 149 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Arthur Seymour Sullivan (1842-1900) Scripture: Luke 2:1-20 Tune Sources: Traditional melody Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 12321 23432 5534 Used With Text: It came upon the midnight clear

PICARDY

Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 235 hymnals Scripture: Luke 2:8-15 Tune Sources: French, 17th cent. Tune Key: d minor Incipit: 12345 54555 567 Used With Text: Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

TEMPUS ADEST FLORIDUM

Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 78 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ernest Macmillan Scripture: Luke 2:16 Tune Sources: Piae Cantiones, 1582 Tune Key: G Major Incipit: 11121 15656 71111 Used With Text: Gentle Mary Laid Her Child

SUSSEX CAROL

Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 76 hymnals Scripture: Luke 2:10-20 Tune Sources: English Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 55345 32127 11234 Used With Text: On Christmas Night All Christians Sing

[¡Suenen dulces himnos]

Appears in 161 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Geo. F. Root Scripture: Luke 2:8-15 Tune Key: B Flat Major Incipit: 55653 12167 17121 Used With Text: Suenen Dulces Himnos

[See the little baby, lying in the manger]

Appears in 33 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Nelsie T. Johnson, 1912- Scripture: Luke 2:16 Tune Sources: African-American spiritual Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 16513 21354 35432 Used With Text: Amen, Amen

PASTORES VÉLAN

Appears in 13 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Philip W. Blycker, n. 1939 Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Sources: Traditional from Spain Tune Key: e minor or modal Incipit: 11123 13221 23543 Used With Text: En la noche los pastores (On the Hills by Night the Shepherds)

MANGER SONG

Meter: 12.12.10.10 Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Carl F. Schalk, b. 1929 Scripture: Luke 2:1-16 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 71232 17627 65234 Used With Text: Where Shepherds Lately Knelt

CELEBRATIONS

Meter: 11.14 with refrain Appears in 7 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Valerie Collison (b. 1933) Scripture: Luke 2:15-18 Tune Key: C Major Incipit: 15654 65315 65432 Used With Text: Come and join the celebration

A LA RU

Meter: Irregular Appears in 8 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Donald Robb, 1892-1989 Scripture: Luke 2:17-19 Tune Sources: Hispanic folk tune Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11176 71517 66321 Used With Text: Oh, Sleep Now, Holy Baby

STILL, STILL, STILL

Meter: 3.6.9.8.3.6 Appears in 14 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Walter Ehret, 1918- Scripture: Luke 2:16 Tune Key: E Flat Major Incipit: 51351 13224 7721 Used With Text: Still, Still, Still

Holy Night, Blessed Night

Meter: 7.8.9.8 with refrain Appears in 5 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Qigui Shy; Pen-li Chen Scripture: Luke 2:8-20 Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 56165 56532 23561 Used With Text: Holy Night, Blessed Night

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