Meter: 8.6.8.6 with repeatAppears in 899 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lowell Mason; George Frideric HandelTopics: Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Eve Year B; Christmas Eve Year CTune Key: D MajorIncipit: 17654 32156 67711 Used With Text: Joy to the World
Meter: 7.7.7.7 with refrainAppears in 215 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Edward Shippen BarnesTopics: Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Eve Year BTune Sources: French carol melodyTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 33355 43323 53213 Used With Text: Angels We Have Heard on High (Les anges dans nos campagnes_
Meter: 11.11.11.11Appears in 135 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William James Kirkpatrick; Desmond HassellTopics: Christmas Eve Year CTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 51123 11345 56423 Used With Text: Away in a Manger
Appears in 109 hymnalsTopics: Christmas EveTune Sources: Polish traditional melodyTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 55117 12234 54321 Used With Text: Infant holy
Meter: 8.6.8.6 DAppears in 471 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Richard Storrs WillisTopics: Christmas Eve The Holy Communion GeneralTune Key: B Flat MajorIncipit: 53221 65655 67112 Used With Text: It came upon the midnight clear
Meter: IrregularAppears in 1,337 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Francis WadeTopics: Christmas Eve Year B; Christmas Eve Year CTune Key: G MajorIncipit: 11512 55323 43211 Used With Text: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Meter: 8.7.8.7Appears in 408 hymnalsTopics: Christmas Eve Year ATune Sources: Psalmodia Sacra, 1715Tune Key: F MajorIncipit: 55112 23155 64253 Used With Text: Come, Thou Long-Expected Jesus
Meter: IrregularAppears in 640 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Franz Xavier GruberTopics: Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Eve Year B; Christmas Eve Year CTune Key: B Flat MajorIncipit: 56535 65322 77115 Used With Text: Silent Night, Holy Night (Stille Nacht)
Meter: 7.7.7.7 D with refrainAppears in 627 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Felix Mendelssohn; William Hayman CummingsTopics: Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Eve Year BTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 51171 33255 54323 Used With Text: Hark! the herald angels sing
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7.7.7Appears in 166 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Healey WillanTopics: Christmas Eve Year ATune Sources: Plainsong melody ca. 12th centuryTune Key: E Flat MajorIncipit: 12343 23213 45653 Used With Text: Of the Father's Love Begotten
Meter: 6.7.6.7Appears in 15 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Reginald Owen Morris, 1886-1948Topics: Christmas EveTune Key: D MajorIncipit: 67176 61176 5663 Used With Text: Love came down at Christmas
Meter: 8.6.8.6 DAppears in 276 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan WilliamsTopics: Christmas Eve Year ATune Sources: English and Irish traditional melodyTune Key: e minorIncipit: 32111 73343 45543 Used With Text: I Heard the Voice of Jesus
Meter: 7.6.7.6.6.7.6Appears in 170 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Michael PraetoriusTopics: Christmas Eve Year CTune Sources: German traditional melody 1599Tune Key: F MajorIncipit: 55565 53432 17155 Used With Text: Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
Meter: 8.8.8.8.8.8Appears in 76 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams, 1872-1958Topics: Christmas EveTune Sources: English traditional melodyTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 55345 32127 11234 Used With Text: On Christmas night all Christians sing
Meter: 8.7.8.7 with refrainAppears in 167 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John StainerTopics: Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Eve Year BTune Sources: English melody, 16th centuryTune Key: G MajorIncipit: 13456 54271 23117 Used With Text: What Child is This
Meter: 8.7.8.7.7.7Appears in 280 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry John Gauntlett; Arthur Henry Mann; David WillcocksTopics: Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Eve Year BTune Key: F MajorIncipit: 57111 71221 13533 Used With Text: Once in Royal David's City
Meter: 8.6.8.6.7.6.8.6Appears in 435 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Lewis Henry RednerTopics: Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Eve Year BTune Key: G MajorIncipit: 33323 54621 712 Used With Text: O Little Town of Bethlehem
Meter: 8.7.8.7.8.7Appears in 878 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Henry Thomas Smart; Ruth GirardTopics: Christmas Eve Year A; Christmas Eve Year BTune Key: B Flat MajorIncipit: 53153 21566 51432 Used With Text: Angels, from the Realms of Glory
Meter: IrregularAppears in 123 hymnalsTopics: Christmas Eve Year ATune Sources: African-American spiritual 19th century arr. United Reformed Church (U.K.)Tune Key: G MajorIncipit: 33216 51222 12323 Used With Text: Go, Tell It on the Mountain
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 320 hymnalsTopics: Christmas EveTune Sources: Later form of melody from Thomas Este's 'Psalter', 1592Tune Key: F MajorIncipit: 13321 44323 55453 Used With Text: While shepherds watched their flocks by night