PAGE _INTRODUCTORY_ DEDICATION ix PREFACE xi LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xiv PERSONS AND GROUPS xv CHORUSES AND CAROLS xvi THE COMMUNITY CHORUS xvii TIME AND PLACE xvii QUOTATION FROM ST. MATTHEW xviii _TEXT OF THE MASQUE IN TWELVE ACTIONS_ I. “WHO KEEPETH WATCH?” 1 II. THE LANTERN IN THE DESERT 9 III. “SOMEBODY IS COMING!” 11 IV. THE LIGHT-CHILD 14 V. “SWORD OF THE WORLD” 21 VI. THE BEFRIENDING 28 VII. THE THREE WISE MEN 31 VIII. “WHICH, O LORD, IS WISEST?” 34 IX. OUTCASTS 44 X. THE WOUNDED PEDLAR 48 XI. THE PERSECUTING HOST 53 XII. THE MORNING STARS 54 _COMMENTARIES_ COMMUNITY PRELUDE 69 COMMUNITY EPILUDE 72 THREE MONOGRAPHS: I. DRAMATIZING COMMUNITY SONG, BY PERCY MACKAYE 73 II. COMMUNITY MUSIC AND THE COMPOSER, BY ARTHUR FARWELL 77 III. DESIGNS FOR “THE EVERGREEN TREE,” BY ROBERT EDMOND JONES 78 ACTION OF “THE EVERGREEN TREE” 80 ANNOUNCEMENTS CONCERNING MUSIC AND PRODUCTION 81 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS _I. SCENES_ DANCE-CAROL OF THE EVERGREEN _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE THE LIGHT-CHILD 16 SWORD OF THE WORLD 24 THE THREE WISE MEN 32 OUTCASTS 44 THE PEDLAR-KING 62 THE MORNING STARS 66