Just in time for Christmas, I’ve reached the run of Christmas songs in AOV. I can’t pretend anyone needs to find out about these songs for the first time and the lyrics are well known, so I’ll just put up the tunes for fun.
165 What Child is This? (William C Dix, tune: Greensleeves)
167 O Come, All Ye Faithful (John F. Wade trans. Frederick Oakley)
168 Silent Night (Joseph Mohr, Franz Xavier Gruber)
169 The First Noel (trad.)
170 Joy to the World (Isaac Watts, G. F. Handel)
NB play this down 2 semitones in C and everyone will sing. (This backing is in D)
171 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Charles Wesley, Felix Mendelssohn)
172 While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night (Nahum Tate, G. F. Handel)
…or the tune I associate with that text.
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