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| Composer : | Willis, Richard (1819 - 1900) | ||||
| Instrumentation : | Piano and Voice1 other version | ||||
| Style : | Christmas - Carols | ||||
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| 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 who had previously been a student of Felix Mendelssohn. In the United Kingdom a tune called "Noel" by Arthur Sullivan is favoured as the accompaniment. Sullivan had created the music by adapting an English melody in 1874. Sheet central : | It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (40 sheet music) | | |||
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