Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7Appears in 280 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry John GauntlettTopics: Carols and Spiritual Songs ChristmasTune Key: G MajorIncipit: 57111 71221 13533 Used With Text: Once In Royal David's City
Meter: IrregularAppears in 640 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Franz GrugerTopics: Carols and Spiritual SongsTune Key: C MajorIncipit: 56535 65322 77115 Used With Text: Silent Night! Holy Night!
Meter: 7.7.7.7Appears in 164 hymnalsTopics: Carols and Spiritual SongsTune Sources: "Liederbuch für Kleinkinder-Schulen," Kaiserswerth, 1842Tune Key: F MajorIncipit: 11117 12222 21233 Used With Text: Now the Light has Gone Away
Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrainAppears in 215 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edward Shippen BarnesTopics: Christmas CarolsTune Sources: French Carol MelodyTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 33355 43323 53213 Used With Text: Gloria in excelsis Deo
Appears in 491 hymnalsTopics: Carols and Spiritual SongsTune Sources: "Schlesische Volkslieder," Leipzig, 1842Tune Key: F MajorIncipit: 11127 13333 42351 Used With Text: Beautiful Savior
Meter: 10.10.10.10.10.10Appears in 283 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Jean Sibelius, b. 1865Topics: Carols and Spiritual SongsTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 32343 23122 33234 Used With Text: Be Still, My soul
Meter: 11.10.11.10Appears in 115 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: James P. HardingTopics: Christmas CarolsTune Key: A Flat MajorIncipit: 32176 55171 32543 Used With Text: Brightest and best of the sons of the morning
Meter: 8.8.8.8Appears in 210 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Michael Praetorius; George R. WoodwardTopics: Carols; Sunday Schools CarolsTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 11234 32115 55671 Used With Text: Joy dawned again on Easter-Day
Meter: 7.7.7.7Appears in 35 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Geoffrey ShawTopics: Christmas CarolsTune Sources: Piae Cantiones, 1582Tune Key: D MajorIncipit: 12343 21556 71112 Used With Text: Unto us a boy is born!
Meter: 7.6.7.6.7.7.6.6Appears in 36 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: E. P.Topics: Carols and Spiritual Songs AdventTune Sources: Old Swedish Melody, prior to 1560Tune Key: G MajorIncipit: 11116 55561 17111 Used With Text: Prepare The Way, O Zion
Meter: 7.6.7.6Appears in 55 hymnalsTopics: Carols and Spiritual Songs ChristmasTune Sources: German Folksong; German chorale: När juldagsmorgon glimmarTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 53323 15555 45316 Used With Text: When Christmas Morn Is Dawning
Meter: 6.5.6.5 DAppears in 30 hymnalsTopics: CarolsTune Sources: Rev. R. R. Chope's Carols for Use in Church, 1875Tune Key: A MajorIncipit: 11176 53551 23222 Used With Text: Wake and sing, good Christians
Meter: 8.3.8.8Appears in 9 hymnalsTopics: Carols and Spiritual Songs ChristmasTune Sources: Danish Folk MelodyTune Key: G MajorIncipit: 51512 34321 543 Used With Text: A Babe Is Born In Bethlehem
Meter: 8.8.8.7Appears in 117 hymnalsTopics: Christmas CarolsTune Sources: Hohenfurth Ms., 1410Tune Key: F MajorIncipit: 13534 56523 45432 Used With Text: He whom joyous shepherds praised
Meter: 6.5.6.5Appears in 67 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Sabine Baring-GouldTopics: Carols and Spiritual SongsTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 33445 34433 23321 Used With Text: Now the Day Is Over
Meter: 8.7.8.8.7.3Appears in 30 hymnalsTopics: Carols and Spiritual Songs ChristmasTune Sources: Folksong; German chorale: Der Christbaum ist der schönste BaumTune Key: G MajorIncipit: 53142 54321 54332 Used With Text: O Let Us Praise The Christmas Tree
Meter: 7.6.7.6 DAppears in 1,039 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Samuel S. WesleyTopics: Carols and Spiritual SongsTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 33343 32116 54345 Used With Text: I Lay My Sins on Jesus
Meter: 8.6.5.4.6.7.6.4.4.8Appears in 435 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lewis H. RednerTopics: Carols and Spiritual SongsTune Key: G MajorIncipit: 33323 54621 712 Used With Text: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Meter: 6.5.6.5 D with refrainAppears in 1,007 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Arthur S. SullivanTopics: Carols and Spiritual SongsTune Key: E MajorIncipit: 55555 65221 23135 Used With Text: Onward, Christian Soldiers
Meter: IrregularAppears in 1 hymnal Composer and/or Arranger: Leopold StokovskiTopics: CarolsTune Key: B Flat MajorIncipit: 62664 67162 66467 Used With Text: When Christ was born of Mary free