"Love Came Down at Christmas" [John Sebastian Matthews]

"Love Came Down at Christmas" [John Sebastian Matthews]

First line of lyrics: Love came down at Christmas

Matthews, John Sebastian; music (English, 1870-1934)

Rossetti, Christina Georgina; text (English, 1830-1894)

1919 [publication] [copyright]

New York: The Century Company

genre: carol|choral music|sacred music|Christmas music|song|hymn

chorus: SATB chorus|congregational singing

instrumentation: a cappella

initial sharps/flats: three flats

initial time signature: 4/4

origin: United States

male composer

English

Rossetti poem(s): "Christmastide"

Tempo markings: "Rather slow"

Format 1: musical score

1 page (p. 112)

In reference to the published works below: Gooch and Thatcher 4551

Reference: Gooch, Bryan N.S. and David S. Thatcher. Musical Settings of Early and Mid-Victorian Literature: A Catalogue. New York: Garland, 1979.

Other data reference(s): "Matthews, John Sebastian." IMSLP Petrucci Music Library, https://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Matthews,_John_Sebastian. Accessed 4 Nov. 2018.

Cataloguer: Jennifer Frederick, University of Ottawa

musical score: Matthews, John Sebastian. "Love Came Down at Christmas." Hymns of the Living Church, edited by Charles Taylor Ives and R. Huntington Woodman, no. 112, Century Co., New York, 1910, pp. 126. Hymnary, https://hymnary.org/text/love_came_down_at_christmas. Accessed 23 Oct. 2018.

Record: CRM-christmastide-matthews

File(s): CRM-christmastide-matthews.pdf

"Copyright, 1919, by The Century Co."

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