 | It Came Upon the Midnight Clear Richard Willis Piano and Voice |
| Composer |  Willis, Richard (1819 - 1900) | ||
| Instrumentation | Piano and Voice | ||
| Sheet central | It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (40 sheet music) 1 other version | ||
| Style | Christmas - Carols | ||
| Publisher | Lewis, Alastair | ||
| Copyright | Copyright © 2011 Alastair Lewis | ||
| Added by alastair-lewis, 03 Dec 2011
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" was originally
written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church
in Wayland, Massachusetts, as a poem in 1849. The poem
is written in Common-Metre Double and was first
published in 1849, in the Christian Register in Boston.
These lyrics are most commonly set to one of two
melodies:
In the United States the most popular music used is the tune "Carol" which was composed by Richard Storrs Willis. This melody was composed in 1850 by Willis ...(+) | |||
