Though well over 150 years old, \u201cIt Came Upon The Midnight Clear<\/strong>\u201d is a relative newcomer to the canon of classic Christmas carols. The words were written by Edmund Sears, a Unitarian minister from Massachusetts. Originally, it was written as a poem and published in The Christian Register, <\/strong><\/em>a Boston newspaper of the day, in December of 1849. Incidentally, it was less than a year later, in 1850, that Richard Storrs Willis\u2014a prot\u00e9g\u00e9 of Felix Mendelssohn\u2014wrote the music that would later be joined with Sears\u2019 poem to become the composition we know today.<\/p>\n If your production requires a reflective holiday mood, \u201cIt Came Upon The Midnight Clear\u201d <\/strong>may be the perfect Christmas stock music <\/strong>for your project. In the Premium Beat Christmas royalty free music <\/strong>libraries, we have four different versions available. For a quiet mood, we have piano and harp solo versions. For something less traditional, we also have two wonderful jazz interpretations that are sure to delight.<\/p>\n Here are our 19 Royalty Free versions of\u00a0It Came Upon The Midnight Clear<\/strong><\/strong>:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" If your production requires a reflective holiday mood, \u201cIt Came Upon The Midnight Clear\u201d may be the perfect Christmas stock music for your project<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[3],"tags":[447,5374,449,448],"class_list":["post-class-post-47489","post-class-music_roundup","post-class-type-music_roundup","post-class-status-publish","post-class-hentry","post-class-category-royalty-free-music","post-class-tag-christmas","post-class-tag-royalty-free-music","post-class-tag-stick-music","post-class-tag-xmas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n