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It Came Upon the Midnight Clear

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"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear" (1849) – sometimes rendered as "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" – is a poem and Christmas carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts. [1]

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Adult Contemporary (chart)

The Adult Contemporary chart is published weekly by Billboard magazine and lists the most popular songs on adult contemporary radio stations in the United States.

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American Unitarian Association

The American Unitarian Association (AUA) was a religious denomination in the United States and Canada, formed by associated Unitarian congregations in 1825.

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Arthur Sullivan

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan MVO (13 May 1842 – 22 November 1900) was an English composer.

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B-flat major

In music theory, Bflat major is a major scale based on flat, with pitches B, C, D, flat, F, G, and A. Its key signature has two flats.

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Boston

Boston is the capital city and most populous municipality of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Carol (music)

A carol is in Modern English a festive song, generally religious but not necessarily connected with church worship, and often with a dance-like or popular character.

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Christmas carol

A Christmas carol (also called a noël, from the French word meaning "Christmas") is a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, and which is traditionally sung on Christmas itself or during the surrounding holiday season.

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Common metre

Common metre or common measure — abbreviated as C. M. or CM — is a poetic metre consisting of four lines which alternate between iambic tetrameter (four metrical feet per line) and iambic trimeter (three metrical feet per line), with each foot consisting of an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

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Edmund Sears

Edmund Hamilton Sears (April 6, 1810 – January 14, 1876) was an American Unitarian parish minister and author who wrote a number of theological works influencing 19th century liberal Protestants.

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Episcopal Church (United States)

The Episcopal Church is the United States-based member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion.

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Felix Mendelssohn

Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy (3 February 1809 4 November 1847), born and widely known as Felix Mendelssohn, was a German composer, pianist, organist and conductor of the early romantic period.

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Hymnal

Hymnal or hymnary or hymnbook is a collection of hymns, i.e. religious songs, usually in the form of a book.

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Jingle Bells

"Jingle Bells" is one of the best-known and commonly sung American songs in the world.

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Kimberley Locke

Kimberley Dawn Locke (born January 3, 1978) is an American singer-songwriter and model.

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Lancaster, Massachusetts

Lancaster is a town in Worcester County, Massachusetts, in the United States.

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Lutheran Book of Worship

The Lutheran Book of Worship (LBW) is a worship book and hymnal used by several Lutheran denominations in North America.

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Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known as the Mexican War in the United States and in Mexico as the American intervention in Mexico, was an armed conflict between the United States of America and the United Mexican States (Mexico) from 1846 to 1848.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts is an American country band formed in Columbus, Ohio in 1999.

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Rembrandt

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker.

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Richard Storrs Willis

Richard Storrs Willis (February 10, 1819 – May 10, 1900) was an American composer, mainly of hymn music.

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Stanza

In poetry, a stanza (from Italian stanza, "room") is a grouped set of lines within a poem, usually set off from other stanzas by a blank line or indentation.

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The Hymnal 1982

The Hymnal 1982 is the hymnal of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America.

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The United Methodist Hymnal

The United Methodist Hymnal is the hymnal used by The United Methodist Church.

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Time signature

The time signature (also known as meter signature, metre signature, or measure signature) is a notational convention used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats (pulses) are to be contained in each measure (bar) and which note value is equivalent to one beat.

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United First Parish Church

United First Parish Church is a Unitarian Universalist congregation in Quincy, Massachusetts, established as the parish church of Quincy in 1639.

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Wayland, Massachusetts

Wayland is a town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States.

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What Hurts the Most

"What Hurts the Most" is a song written by American songwriter Jeffrey Steele and English songwriter Steve Robson.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_Came_Upon_the_Midnight_Clear

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