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Thread #42524   Message #618476
Posted By: Willa
30-Dec-01 - 09:08 AM
Thread Name: Help: Earlier tunes of songs, carols, hymns
Subject: RE: Help: Earlier tunes of songs, carols, hymns
Carols for Choirs (OUP)has two tunes for 'Away in a Manger'; one by W.J. Kirkpatrick (1838-1920), which is the most commonly used, I think, and one quoted as a Traditional Normandy tune, with no date. I also sing it to an Traditional Germany melody, again undated.
I think the English trad. tune for 'O Liitle Town of Bethlehem', arr. by Vaughan Williams, is the most commonly used, the alternative I know is credited to Lewis H. Redner, undated.
'While Shepherds watched their flocks by Night' can be sung to a tune by Handel.