This Norman tune for Away in a manger - less known and performed than the famous Kirkpatrick setting - can surely compete in beauty and charm with the more familiar versions of the same text, with its rocking feeling that fits wonderfully the moving tenderness of the well-known anonymous lullaby, formerly ascribed to Martin Luther.

This an extended choral arrangement of the melody: the first verse is a simple 2-part canon (with different possible voicings), the second is set for double choir (or solo and choir) with one semichorus singing the melody in unison while another hums the harmonies, and the third and last verse linearly but richly harmonises the melody in 4 parts. The choir sings unaccompanied throughout, with the organ acting as link before, between and after the three verses.