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"Hail To The Joyous Day" - Christmas Music In America

A selection of popular American Christmas carols, hymns and songs

Here are the titles for American Christmas music composed over two centuries
from 1778 to 1988 and featuring Christmas Eve radio program highlights with guest, Roger Hall:

Click the link for audio examples (for listening only)

+ = First performances


1. +O Come, O Come Emmanuel - Immanuel Lutheran Church Choir - arranged by Roger Hall, 1977

2. +Prepare The Royal Highway (Swedish & English) - Thorsten Carlson, soloist - arr. by Roger Hall, 1978

3. +Shepherds Carol - Larre Nelson, soloist/ J.N. Snyder, vibraphone - arr. Roger Hall,1978

4. + Hail to the joyous day - Immanuel Lutheran Church Choir - music by Roger Hall, 1977 (words listed below)

5. Boston (1778) - William Billings

6. Radio program - December 24, 1987 Guest: Roger Hall

7. Judea (1778) - William Billings

8. Bethlehem (1778_ William Billings

9. Sherburne (1785) - Daniel Read

10. Carol (1794) - Supply Belcher

11. New Bethlehem (1799) - Edward French

12. +While once in Judah's lovely land (1815) - Elder John Dunlavy

13. Radio program (1987) - Roger Hall, guest

14. Joy to the World (1848) - Lowell Mason

15. It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (1850) - Richard Willis

16. We Three Kings Of Orient Are (1857) - John Henry Hopkins

17. Up On The Housetop (Santa Claus)(1860) - Benjamin Hanby

18. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day (1863) - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

19. O Little Town Of Bethlehem (1868) - Phillips Brooks

20. Radio program (1987) Guest: Roger Hall

21. Away In A Manger (1887) - James R. Murray

22. A Christmas Carol (1894) - Charles E. Ives

23. +Heavenly Music (Shaker Christmas Carol, 1853) - Brother Nelson Phillips, edited by Roger Hall

24. Radio program (1991) - Christmas music at the movies - Guest: Roger Hall

25. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE - soundtrack excerpt - music by Dimitri Tiomkin

26. +The Prince Of Peace Is Come (Shaker Christmas Carol) - arranged by Roger Hall, 1982

27. + The Dark Night Is Ending - from the play, "The Musical Telephone," arranged by Roger Hall, 1988
Listen to this instrumental audio -- click here

First verse of this carol:

The dark night is ending and dawn has began,
Rise hope of the ages, arise like the sun,
Rise hope of the ages, arise like the sun,
All speech flows to music, all hearts beat as one.

28. Radio program (1987) - We wish you a Merry Christmas - arr. A. Harris

 

 

 

Here are the four verses of "Hail To The Joyous Day"
from the poem by American jurist and playwright, Royall Tyler (1757-1826),
who is credited with writing the first American play, THE CONTRAST, in 1787:

1.
Hail to the joyous day,
On which our Lord was born,
Lift high the vocal lay,
And sing the blissful morn.
Your voices raise!
To hail the morn
On which was born
The Lord of grace.

2.
That sun which cheers the plains,
The seasons as they move,
Rich dews and fertile rains,
All prove his sovereign love.
Your voices raise!
To him who cheers
The fruitful years,
Be grateful praise!

3.
Where roamed the savage race,
In cruelty and blood,
He formed this sacred place,
A temple for our God.
Your voices raise!
Let earth resound,
The choral sound
Of sovereign grace.

4.
Let solemn organs sound,
And sweetest notes combine;
Swell the full notes around,
With grateful voices join.
Your voices raise!
On every wing,
In transport sing
The Savior's grace.

 

 

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