People sang around Christmastime as early as the year 129 A.D. and created Latin hymns for ... consider to be Christmas carols. There was an explosion of new Christmas songs in the 19th century ...

It was William Cummings who, in 1855, ignored both their suggestions, put Wesley’s text with Mendelssohn’s music, and created one of the most joyful and beloved Christmas hymns.

Isaac Watts’s 1719 paraphrase of Psalm 98 became a Christmas classic when ... credit to other composers for his own hymn tunes, and described the music of “Joy to the World” as being ...

In an age when worship music trends come and go, modern hymnwriter Keith Getty is making a different appeal to artists and congregations alike: prioritize depth and Scriptural soundness over ...