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"In the Bleak Midwinter" is a well-known Christmas carol based on a poem by Christina Rossetti, set to music by Gustav Holst in 1906. The Cranham melody (named after Holst's hometown) features characteristic modal harmonies reflecting early 20th-century British post-Romanticism.