Meter: 8.8.8.8Appears in 701 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: William Gardiner 1770-1853Tune Sources: W. Gardiner's 'Sacred Melodies', Vol.II, 1815Tune Key: B Flat MajorIncipit: 51712 56711 17627 Used With Text: We have a gospel to proclaim
Meter: 8.8.8.8 with refrainAppears in 278 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Henry Arnold 1887-1956Tune Sources: Plainsong melody (15th cent.)Tune Key: e minor or modalIncipit: 13555 46543 4531 Used With Text: Rejoice! rejoice!
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 56 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Thomas Clark 1775-1859; Martin Shaw 1875-1958Tune Key: B MajorIncipit: 51715 65435 67 Used With Text: The people that in darkness walked
Meter: IrregularAppears in 246 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: David Evans 1874-1948Tune Sources: English traditional melodyTune Key: D MajorIncipit: 32123 45671 76567 Used With Text: Nowell, nowell
Appears in 894 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: George Frederick Handel 1685-1759; Lowell Mason 1792-1872Tune Key: C MajorIncipit: 17654 32156 67711 Used With Text: Joy to the world! The Lord is come
Meter: 6.6.6.6.8.8Appears in 483 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: John Darwall 1731-89Tune Key: D MajorIncipit: 13153 17654 32231 Used With Text: Join all on earth, rejoice and sing
Meter: 8.8.8.8Appears in 39 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Philip Armes 1836-1908Tune Key: D MajorIncipit: 53211 66551 67656 Used With Text: Come, gracious Spirit, heavenly Dove
Meter: 8.6.8.6Appears in 65 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Orlando Gibbons 1583-1625Tune Sources: Later form of melody from Edmund Prys' 'Psalter', 1621Tune Key: D MajorIncipit: 15345 66551 67761 Used With Text: Give me the wings of faith to rise
Meter: 7.7.7.7Appears in 189 hymnals Composer and/or Arranger: Justin Hienrich Knecht 1752-1817Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 32135 43671 27654 Used With Text: Christ, from whom all blessings flow
Meter: 8.7.87.8.8.7Appears in 346 hymnalsTune Sources: Melody adapted from a chorale in Klug's 'Geistliche Lieder,' Wittenberg, 1535Tune Key: G Major or modalIncipit: 11321 22313 45321 Used With Text: We come unto our fathers’ God