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Author: J. M. Neale (1818-1866) Meter: 6.6.7.7.7.8.5.5 Appears in 220 hymnals Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation Lyrics: 1 Good Christians all, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! listen now to what we say, Jesus Christ is born today; ox and ass before him bow and he is in the manger now! Christ is born today; Christ is born today! 2 Good Christians all, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! hear the news of endless bliss, Jesus Christ was born for this: he has opened heaven’s door and we are blessed forevermore! Christ was born for this; Christ was born for this. 3 Good Christians all, rejoice with heart and soul and voice! now ye need not fear the grave; Jesus Christ was born to save: come at his most gracious call to find salvation, one and all! Christ was born to save; Christ was born to save! Used With Tune: IN DULCI JUBILO Text Sources: In Dulci Jubilo (fourteenth century)

Christians, awake, salute the happy morn

Author: J. Byrom (1692-1763) Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10 Appears in 186 hymnals Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation Used With Tune: YORKSHIRE

Angels, from the Realms of Glory

Author: James Montgomery Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7 Appears in 764 hymnals Topics: Christmas Day 1 Year A; Christmas 1 Year B Refrain First Line: come and worship, come and worship Lyrics: 1 Angels, from the realms of glory, wing your flight o'er all the earth; ye, who sang creation's story, now proclaim Messiah's birth: come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ, the new-born King. 2 Shepherds in the field abiding, watching o'er your flocks by night, God with us is now residing, yonder shines the infant Light: come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ, the new-born King. 3 Sages, leave your contemplations; brighter visions beam afar; seek the great desire of nations; ye have seen his natal star: come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ, the new-born King. 4 Saints before the altar bending, watching long in hope and fear, suddenly the Lord, descending, in his temple shall appear: come and worship, come and worship, worship Christ, the new-born King. Used With Tune: REGENT SQUARE

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ODE TO JOY

Meter: 8.7.8.7 D Appears in 477 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ludwig van Beethoven, 1770-1827; Christopher Tambling Topics: Harvest Festival; Joy, Praise and Thanksgiving; Year A All Saints' Day; Year A Proper 14; Year B Advent 2; Year B Proper 1; Year B Proper 10; Years A, B, and C Christmas 2 Tune Key: F Major Incipit: 33455 43211 23322 Used With Text: Fill your hearts with joy and gladness

LASST UNS ERFREUEN

Meter: 8.8.4.4.8.8 with alleluias Appears in 482 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams Topics: Year B Christmas 1; Year C Christmas 1 Tune Sources: Geistliche Kirchengesäng, Cologne, 1623; The New Century Hymnal, 1993, Descant Tune Key: D Major Incipit: 11231 34511 23134 Used With Text: To You, O God, All Creatures Sing

WINCHESTER OLD

Appears in 320 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: W. H. Monk (1823-1889); John Barnard (born 1948); John Barnard (born 1948) Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation; Christmas 1 The Incarnation Tune Sources: T. Este's Psalmes 1592 Tune Key: F Major or modal Incipit: 13321 44323 55453 Used With Text: While shepherds watched their flocks by night

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Glad music fills the Christmas sky

Author: Michael Perry (born 1942) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #82 (1987) Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation Languages: English Tune Title: O WALY WALY

Come and sing the Christmas story

Author: Michael Perry (born 1942) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #81 (1987) Meter: 8.4.8.4.8.8.8.4 Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation Lyrics: 1 Come and sing the Christmas story this holy night! Christ is born: the hope of glory dawns on our sight. Alleluia! earth is ringing with a thousand angels singing — hear the message they are bringing this holy night. 2 Jesus, Saviour, child of Mary this holy night, in a world confused and weary you are our light. God is in a manger lying, manhood taking, self denying, life embracing, death defying this holy night. 3 Lord of all! Let us acclaim him this holy night; king of our salvation name him, throned in the height. Son of Man — let us adore him, all the earth is waiting for him; Son of God — we bow before him this holy night. Languages: English Tune Title: ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT

to our God come to earth

Author: Michael Saward (born 1932) Hymnal: Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) #79 (1987) Meter: 8.7.8.7.3.3.7 Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation First Line: Christmas for God’s holy people Languages: English Tune Title: MABLEDON

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John Goss

1800 - 1880 Person Name: J. Goss (1800-1880) Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation Composer of "HUMILITY" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) John Goss (b. Fareham, Hampshire, England, 1800; d. London, England, 1880). As a boy Goss was a chorister at the Chapel Royal and later sang in the opera chorus of the Covent Garden Theater. He was a professor of music at the Royal Academy of Music (1827-1874) and organist of St. Paul Cathedral, London (1838-1872); in both positions he exerted significant influence on the reform of British cathedral music. Goss published Parochial Psalmody (1826) and Chants, Ancient and Modern (1841); he edited William Mercer's Church Psalter and Hymn Book (1854). With James Turle he published a two-volume collection of anthems and Anglican service music (1854). Bert Polman

Edmund H. Sears

1810 - 1876 Person Name: E. H. Sears (1810-1876) Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation Author of "It came upon the midnight clear" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Edmund Hamilton Sears was born in Berkshire [County], Massachusetts, in 1810; graduated at Union College, Schenectady, in 1834, and at the Theological School of Harvard University, in 1837. He became pastor of the Unitarian Society in Wayland, Mass., in 1838; removed to Lancaster in 1840; but on account of ill health was obliged to retire from the active duties of the ministry in 1847; since then, residing in Wayland, he devoted himself to literature. He has published several works. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A., 1872 ======================= Sears, Edmund Hamilton, D.D., son of Joseph Sears, was born at Sandisfield, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, April 6, 1810, and educated at Union College, Schenectady, N.Y., where he graduated in 1834; and at the Theological School at Cambridge. In 1838 he became pastor of the First Church (Unitarian) at Wayland, Massachusetts; then at Lancaster in the same State, in 1840; again at Wayland, in 1847; and finally at Weston, Massachusetts, in 1865. He died at Weston, Jan. 14, 1876. He published:— (1) Regeneration, 1854; (2) Pictures of the Olden Time, 1857; (3) Athanasia, or Foregleams of Immortality, 1858, enlarged ed., 1872; (4) The Fourth Gospel the Heart of Christ; (5) Sermons and Songs of the Christian Life, 1875, in which his hymns are collected. Also co-editor of the Monthly Religious Magazine. Of his hymns the following are in common use:— 1. Calm on the listening ear of night. Christmas. This hymn was first published in its original form, in the Boston Observer, 1834; afterwards, in the Christian Register, in 1835; subsequently it was emended by the author, and, as thus emended, was reprinted entire in the Monthly Magazine, vol. xxxv. Its use is extensive. 2. It came upon the midnight clear. Christmas. "Rev. Dr. Morison writes to us, Sears's second Christmas hymn was sent to me as editor of the Christian Register, I think, in December, 1849. I was very much delighted with it, and before it came out in the Register, read it at a Christmas celebration of Dr. Lunt's Sunday School in Quincy. I always feel that, however poor my Christmas sermon may be, the reading and singing of this hymn are enough to make up for all deficiences.'" 3. Ho, ye that rest beneath the rock. Charitable Meetings on behalf of Children. Appeared in Longfellow and Johnson's Hymns of the Spirit, Boston, 1864, in 2 stanzas of 8 lines. Dr. Sears's two Christmas hymns rank with the best on that holy season in the English language. Although a member of the Unitarian body, his views were rather Swedenborgian than Unitarian. He held always to the absolute Divinity of Christ. [Rev. F. M. Bird, M.A.] --Excerpts from John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)

Edward Caswall

1814 - 1878 Person Name: E. Caswall (1814-1878) Topics: Christmas 1 The Incarnation Author of "Hail, O ever-blessèd morn" in Hymns for Today's Church (2nd ed.) Edward Caswall was born in 1814, at Yately, in Hampshire, where his father was a clergyman. In 1832, he went to Brasenose College, Oxford, and in 1836, took a second-class in classics. His humorous work, "The Art of Pluck," was published in 1835; it is still selling at Oxford, having passed through many editions. In 1838, he was ordained Deacon, and in 1839, Priest. He became perpetural Curate of Stratford-sub-Castle in 1840. In 1841, he resigned his incumbency and visited Ireland. In 1847, he joined the Church of Rome. In 1850, he was admitted into the Congregation of the Oratory at Birmingham, where he has since remained. He has published several works in prose and poetry. --Annotations of the Hymnal, Charles Hutchins, M.A. 1872 ===================== Caswall, Edward, M.A., son of the Rev. R. C. Caswall, sometime Vicar of Yately, Hampshire, born at Yately, July 15, 1814, and educated at Brasenose College, Oxford, graduating in honours in 1836. Taking Holy Orders in 1838, he became in 1840 Incumbent of Stratford-sub-Castle, near Salisbury, and resigned the same in 1847. In 1850 (Mrs. Caswall having died in 1849) he was received into the Roman Catholic communion, and joined Dr. Newman at the Oratory, Edgbaston. His life thenceforth, although void of stirring incidents, was marked by earnest devotion to his clerical duties and a loving interest in the poor, the sick, and in little children. His original poems and hymns were mostly written at the Oratory. He died at Edgbaston, Jan. 2, 1878, and was buried on Jan. 7 at Redwall, near Bromsgrove, by his leader and friend Cardinal Newman. Caswall's translations of Latin hymns from the Roman Breviary and other sources have a wider circulation in modern hymnals than those of any other translator, Dr. Neale alone excepted. This is owing to his general faithfulness to the originals, and the purity of his rhythm, the latter feature specially adapting his hymns to music, and for congregational purposes. His original compositions, although marked by considerable poetical ability, are not extensive in their use, their doctrinal teaching being against their general adoption outside the Roman communion. His hymns appeared in:— (1) Lyra Catholica, which contained 197 translations from the Roman Breviary, Missal, and other sources. First ed. London, James Burns, 1849. This was reprinted in New York in 1851, with several hymns from other sources added thereto. This edition is quoted in the indices to some American hymn-books as Lyra Cath., as in Beecher's Plymouth Collection, 1855, and others. (2) Masque of Mary, and Other Poems, having in addition to the opening poem and a few miscellaneous pieces, 53 translations, and 51 hymns. 1st ed. Lon., Burns and Lambert, 1858. (3) A May Pageant and Other Poems, including 10 original hymns. Lon., Burns and Lambert, 1865. (4) Hymns and Poems, being the three preceding volumes embodied in one, with many of the hymns rewritten or revised, together with elaborate indices. 1st ed. Lon., Burns, Oates & Co., 1873. Of his original hymns about 20 are given in the Roman Catholic Crown of Jesus Hymn Book, N.D; there are also several in the Hymns for the Year, N.D., and other Roman Catholic collections. --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907) ====================== Caswall, E. , p. 214, ii. Additional original hymns by Caswall are in the Arundel Hymns, 1902, and other collections. The following are from the Masque of Mary, &c, 1858:— 1. Christian soul, dost thou desire. After Holy Communion. 2. Come, let me for a moment cast. Holy Communion. 3. O Jesu Christ [Lord], remember. Holy Communion. 4. Oft, my soul, thyself remind. Man's Chief End. 5. Sleep, Holy Babe. Christmas. Appeared in the Rambler, June 1850, p. 528. Sometimes given as "Sleep, Jesus, sleep." 6. The glory of summer. Autumn. 7. This is the image of the queen. B. V. M. His "See! amid the winter's snow,” p. 1037, i., was published in Easy Hymn Tunes, 1851, p. 36. In addition the following, mainly altered texts or centos of his translations are also in common use:— 1. A regal throne, for Christ's dear sake. From "Riches and regal throne," p. 870, ii. 2. Come, Holy Ghost, Thy grace inspire. From "Spirit of grace and union," p. 945, i. 3. Hail! ocean star, p. 99, ii,, as 1873. In the Birmingham Oratory Hymn Book, 1850, p. 158. 4. Lovely flow'rs of martyrs, hail. This is the 1849 text. His 1873 text is "Flowers of martyrdom," p. 947, i. 5. None of all the noble cities. From "Bethlehem! of noblest cities," p. 946, ii. 6. O Jesu, Saviour of the World. From “Jesu, Redeemer of the world," p. 228, ii. 7. 0 Lady, high in glory raised. From "O Lady, high in glory, Whose," p. 945, i. The Parochial Hymn Book, 1880, has also the following original hymns by Caswall. As their use is confined to this collection, we give the numbers only:— IS os. 1, 2, 3, 159 (Poems, 1873, p. 453), 209 (1873, p. 288), 299, 324 (1873, p. 323), 357, 402, 554, 555, 558, 569 (1873, p. 334). These are from his Masque of Mary 1858. Nos. 156, 207 (1873, p. 296), 208 (1873, p. 297), 518. These are from his May Pageant, 1865. As several of these hymns do not begin with the original first lines, the original texts are indicated as found in his Poems, 1873. [Rev. James Mearns, M.A.] --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)

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