Problems playing this file? See media help.ĭavid Weyman's adaptation of "Christmas", taken from an aria in the 1728 opera Siroe by George Frideric Handel was arranged by Lowell Mason in 1821, and it is now this version which is most commonly used in the United States. The carol is sung to a wide variety of tunes, the two most common ones being Winchester Old in the United Kingdom and a variation on a Handel aria arranged by Lowell Mason in the United States.
It was published by Davies Gilbert (London, 1822), and William B. It is the only one of the sixteen works in the 1700 supplement to still be sung today. It is written in common metre and based on the Gospel of Luke 2:8–14. It was the only Christmas hymn authorised to be sung by the Anglican Church before 1700 only the Psalms of David were permitted to be sung. The exact date of Tate's composition is not known, but the words appeared in Tate and Nicholas Brady's 1700 supplement to their New Version of the Psalms of David of 1696. It is listed as number 16898 in the Roud Folk Song Index. " While shepherds watched their flocks" is a traditional Christmas carol describing the Annunciation to the Shepherds, with words attributed to Irish hymnist, lyricist and England's Poet Laureate Nahum Tate. The latter half was adapted and used as the tune of "Winchester Old". The " meane" of chapter VIII in Christopher Tye's Actes of the Apostles of 1553.
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