An Online Christmas Songbook

S5725 - It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

The text has been associated with many different melodies before CAROL became the standard:

[ FOREST GREEN - S6606 ]
English traditional melody The Ploughboy's Dream, arranged by R. Vaughan Williams, 1906

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[ NOEL - S6613 ]
English traditional, arranged by Arthur Sullivan, 1874

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[ PENTATONE - s8925 ]
Walford Davies, 1923

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[ SAINT URSULA - S5741 ]
Frederick Westlake (1840-1898)

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All of these harmonizations are wonderful. It would be interesting to perform the carol with each of these settings for a verse.