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Repertoire - Christmas Music
Lists: by title(177), by first line(177), psalms(54), Christmas music(64).
| Title | Tune | Composer | First line | Key | Time | Metre | Source | Notes | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Angel's Song | While shepherds watched | C | |||||||
| Animation | Animation | George Groom | Joy to the world the Lord is come | Bb | 2/2 | CM | Congregational Melodies 1841 | tr Ian Cutts 2002 | C |
| Arise and Hail | Arise and hail the glorious star | Warmington's Cornish carols 1912 | C | ||||||
| Arise and hail the glorious star | Arise and hail the glorious star | D | 4/4 | LM | The Cornish Song Book | AD Townsend | C | ||
| Arise and hail the joyful day | Arise and hail the joyful day | D | 4/4 | CM | AD Townsend | C | |||
| Arise and hail the sacred day | Joseph Stephenson | Arise and hail the sacred day | G | 6/4 | 886886 | The Musical Companion c1775 | c Sally Drage 1993 | C | |
| As certain sheppards | As certain sheppards in the field | F | 6/8 | CM | Crockers/Saunders Ms Dorset | tr Ian Cutts 1996 | C | ||
| Awake and join the cheerful choir | Awake and join the cheerful choir | D | 2/2 | CM | C | ||||
| Awake, arise | W Eade | Awake, arise rejoice and sing | G | 4/4 | CM | Cornish Carols, pub Heath 1889 | C | ||
| Awake, awake, awake ye mortals all | Awake, awake, awake ye mortals all | C | 6/8 | CM | C | ||||
| Behold good news | Behold good news from heaven is come | Bb | 6/8 | CM | Crockers/Saunders Ms Dorset | tr Ian Cutts | C | ||
| Behold the morning star | Behold, behold the morning star | C | 6/8 | 6686 | Crockers/Saunders Ms Dorset | tr Ian Cutts | C | ||
| Berkshire | Berkshire | S Wesley | To us a child of royal birth | A | 4/2 | LM | The Methodist Hymn-book | C | |
| Bright Angels | Bright angels whose melodious sound | C | 2/2 | LM | Madding Crowd 1991 | C | |||
| Carol, A | J Brown | See heaven's high portals open wide | C | 6/8 | CM | Melbury Osmond Ms 1835 | tr Ian Cutts 1998 | C | |
| Christmas Hymn | Christmas Hymn | Clark | Arise and hail the happy day | G | 3/4 | 886886 | C | ||
| Christmas Hymn | Christmas Hymn | J T Birch | Hark! Hark! The herald angels sing | G | 2/2 | LM | Congregational Singing | C | |
| Christmas Ode | T Jarman | Awake, awake, awake | C | 2/4 | C | ||||
| Come celebrate th'auspicious morn | Joseph Key | Come celebrate th'auspicious morn | G | 2/2 | LM | Blaise Compton 1995 | C | ||
| Gibraltar | Gibraltar | To us a child of royal birth | C | ||||||
| Glad tidings | A Linwood | Hark! Hark! What news the angels bring | D | 4/4 | LM | Four Christmas Carols | tr Ian Cutts 2000 | C | |
| Greenhead | Greenhead | Lo! Unto us a child is born | G | 2/2 | CM | Aylesbury | C | ||
| Hail, sacred day | Hail, sacred day | T N Warmington | Hail, sacred day auspicious morn | F | 4/4 | LM | C | ||
| Hark hark what news | William Sandys 1833 | Hark hark what news the angels bring | G | 2/2 | LM | Christmas Carols A & M | tr Ian Cutts 1998 | C | |
| Hark hear the heavenly angels sing | Hark hear the heavenly angels sing | Bb | 2/2 | CM | Crockers/Saunders Ms Dorset | tr Ian Cutts | C | ||
| Hark hear you not a cheerful noise | Hark hear you not a cheerful noise | C | 2/4 | LM | C | ||||
| Hark shepherds how the angels sing | Hark shepherds how the angels sing | Collection of Dorset carols 1926 | tr Ian Cutts 1999 | C | |||||
| Hark shepherds how the angels sing | Hark shepherds how the angels sing | Bb | 2/2 | CM | Melbury Osmond Ms 1835 | tr Ian Cutts 1999 | C | ||
| Hark the glad sound | Bristol | Philip Doddridge | Hark the glad sound, the Saviour comes | G | 4/2 | CM | Ravenscroft's Psalter 1621 | C | |
| Hark the herald angels | Newton/St Pauls | Charles Wesley | Hark the herald angels sing | F | 2/4 | 7777 | Martin Mss, Poole 1836 | c AD Townsend 1992 | C |
| Hark the herald angels sing | Hark the herald angels sing | F | 4/4 | 7777 | C | ||||
| Hark the Herald Angels sing | Reconciliation | WJ White, St Albans | Hark the herald angels sing | D | 3/4 | Sacred Minstrel 1825 | ed Ian Cutts | C | |
| Hark what celestial sounds | Hark what celestial sounds | G | 2/2 | Moses Heap Ms | tr Jean Seymour 1996 | C | |||
| Hark! what music fills creation | Hark! what music fills creation | G | 4/4 | CM | C | ||||
| Hymn for Christmas Day | Rev C Danbery | Let Christians all with one accord | G | 3/2 | CM | C | |||
| Hymn for Christmas Day | W Jackson | While shepherds watched | A | 4/4 | CM | Psalter 1820 Totteridge Chapel | tr Ian Cutts 1996 | C | |
| Hymn for Christmas Day, An | William Knapp | Hark hear you not a cheerful noise | G | 3/4 | pub Elizabeth Wilkins | tr Ian Cutts 2000 | C | ||
| Immortal Glory | Immortal glory give to God | F | 2/4 | CM | Crockers/Saunders Ms Dorset | tr Ian Cutts 1995 | C | ||
| Joyful Advent | Joyful Advent | F W Saunders | Joy to the world | D | 2/2 | CM | The Oxfordshire Melodist 1844 | C | |
| Joy to the world | A Linwood | Joy to the world, the Lord is come | Eb | 4/4 | CM | Four Christmas Carols | tr Ian Cutts 2000 | C | |
| Joy to the world | Isaac Watts | Joy to the world, the Lord is come | C | 2/4 | CM | Melbury Osmond Ms 1835 | tr Ian Cutts 1998 | C | |
| Joy to the world | The Advent | John Jarvis, Chinnor | Joy to the world, the Lord is come | G | 2/4 | CM | Zion's Harmonist 1844 | tr Ian Cutts 2002 | C |
| Nativity | T Jarman | Mortals awake with angels join | G | 2/4 | CM | Sacred Music 1803 | tr Sally Drage 1998 | C | |
| Nativity | Nativity | H Searle | Hark, hark, the bright seraphic choir | C | 2/4 | 7777 | A set of psalms and hymn tunes 1827? | C | |
| Oh what unbounded goodness Lord | Oh what unbounded goodness Lord | D | 6/8 | CM | C | ||||
| Once more behold | Once more behold the glorious day | Eb | 6/8 | LM | Crocker/Saunders Ms Dorset | tr Ian Cutts 1995 | C | ||
| On Christmas Day | On Christmas Day | Caleb Simper | In glad acclaim this joyful day | D | 4/4 | 8787 | The Nativity of Christ 1896 | C | |
| Proclamation | Proclamation | W J White | Lift up your heads in joyful hope | Bb | 2/4 | CM | The Sacred Herald | tr Ian Cutts 2003 | C |
| Rapture | A Linwood | When Jordan hushed its waters still | C | 3/4 | LM | Four Christmas Carols | tr Ian Cutts 2000 | C | |
| Rejoice ye tenants | W Gifford/S Petherton | Rejoice ye tenants of the earth | Cm | 2/4 | 886886 | Madding Crowd 1978/1991 | C | ||
| See seraphic throngs descending | See seraphic throngs descending | Bb | 4/4 | CM | Melbury Osmond Ms 1835 | tr Ian Cutts 1998 | C | ||
| Seraphic Tidings | Seraphic Tidings | Cornelius Ward | Angelic messenger repeat | Bb | 4/4 | tr Ian Cutts2003 | C | ||
| Shepherds arise | Shepherds arise, be not afraid | Bb | 2/2 | CM | Puddletown & Zelston Ms | Madding Crowd 1991 | C | ||
| Shepherds rejoice | Shepherds rejoice, lift up your eyes | F | 6/8 | CM | Crockers/Saunders Ms Dorset | tr Ian Cutts | C | ||
| Sound, sound | WB Ninnis | Sound sound your instruments of joy | D | 2/2 | CM | Old Cornish Carols 1927 | tr Ian Cutts 2000 | C | |
| Stutgard | Stutgard | C F Witt | Come, thou long-expected Jesus | G | 4/4 | CM | Old Church Psalmody 1849 | C | |
| Unto us a child is born | William Knapp / John Ivery | Unto us a child is born | G | 2/2 | The Hertfordshire Melody 1773 | C | |||
| Walton | Walton | WJ White | High let us swell our tuneful notes | C | 2/4 | CM | The Sacred Herald 1820 | tr Ian Cutts 2001 | C |
| Warwick | Warwick | Samuel Stanley | Hark the glad sound! | D | 2/2 | CM | Twenty-four tunes in four parts 1819 | tr Ian Cutts 2003 | C |
| While shepherds watched | While shepherds watched | Warmington's Cornish carols 1912 | C | ||||||
| While shepherds watched | A Linwood | While shepherds watched | G | 4/4 | CM | Four Christmas Carols | tr Ian Cutts 2000 | C | |
| While shepherds watched | Matthew Cooke | While shepherds watched | A | 4/4 | CM | Twelve Psalm Tunes, N.Mimms c1790 | c Blaise Compton | C | |
| While shepherds watched | William Knapp | While shepherds watched | G | 4/4 | CM | New Church Melody 1751 | c Blaise Compton | C | |
| While shepherds watched | Cranbrook | While shepherds watched | c Blaise Compton | C | |||||
| Yorkshire | Yorkshire | John Wainwright/Caleb Ashworth | Christians awake, salute the happy Morn | C | 2/2 | XXXXXX | 1766/1765 | tr Ian Cutts 2003 | C |
Lists: by title(177), by first line(177), psalms(54), Christmas music(64).