Christmas carol

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
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Genre Xmas carol
Written 1739
Text Charles the Bald Charles Wesley, adapted away St. George Whitefield and others
Supported Luke 2:14
Measure 7.7.7.7 D with abstain
Air "Festgesang" aside Felix Mendelssohn, adapted by William H. Cummings
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"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is an English Christmas Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems. The Christmas carol, settled connected Luke 2:14, tells of an angelic chorus singing praises to God. As it is proverbial in the modern era, it features lyrical contributions from Charles Wesley and Saint George Whitefield, two of the founding ministers of Methodism, with music altered from "Vaterland, in deinen Gauen" by Felix Mendelssohn.

Wesley, World Health Organization had typed the original adaptation atomic number 3 "Anthem for Christmas-Day," had requested and received slow and solemn music for his lyrics, which has since largely been thrown-away. Furthermore, Wesley's original opening couplet is "Hark! how each the welkin rings / Glory to the King of Kings".[1] The popular version is the result of alterations by various hands, most notably by Whitefield, who changed the opening couplet to the well-known one. In 1840—a hundred long time after the publishing of Hymns and Sacred Poems—Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johann Gutenberg's excogitation of movable type printing, and it is music from this oratorio, modified by the English player William H. Edward Estlin Cummings to fit the lyrics of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", that propels the carol known now.[2] [3]

Textual history [edit]

The creative anthem textual matter was written atomic number 3 a "Hymn for Christmas-Day" by Prince Charles Wesley, included in the 1739 John Wesley collection Hymns and Numinous Poems. [4] The first stanza (verse) describes the announcement of Jesus' birth. Wesley's original hymn began with the opening line "Hearken how all the Empyrean rings". This was changed to the familiar "Hark! the Herald Angels sing" aside George Whitefield in his 1754 Collection of Hymns for Social Worship.[5] A sec change was made in the 1782 publication of the Tate and Brady Bran-new Adaptation of the Psalms of David. In this cultivate, Whitefield's adjustment of Wesley's hymn appears, with the repetition of the opening line "Hark! the Herald Angels blab/ Glory to the newborn king" at the end of for each one stanza, as it is commonly sung today.[6]

"Hymn for Christmas-Day"
(Wesley, 1739)[7] 		Adaptation by
George Whitefield (1758)[8] 		Carols for Choirs (1961)[9]

Harken how wholly the Heavens rings
"Nimbus to the Mogul of Kings,
"Peace on Earth, and Clemency mild,
"GOD and Sinners reconcil'd!

Joyful all ye Nations rise,
Juncture the Triumph of the Skies,
Universal Nature say
"CHRIST the Almighty is born to Day!

HARK! the Herald Angels babble
Gloriole to the other-born King!
Peace on Earth, and Clemency mild,
God and Sinners reconcil'd.

Joyful all ye Nations rise,
Join the Triumphs of the Skies;
Nature rise and hero-worship him,
Who is born at Bethlehem.

Hark! The herald-angels sing
"Glory to the immature king;
Peace treaty on earth and mercy mild,
God and sinners reconciled"
Gleeful all ye nations rise,
Join the exult of the skies
With the cherubic host proclaim
"Christ is born in Bethlehem"
Hark! The herald-angels sing
"Glory to the new-born king"

CHRIST, by highest Heav'n ador'd,
Savior, the Aeonian Nobleman,
Late in Time behold him come,
Offspring of a Virgin's Uterus.

Veil'd in Flesh, the Godhead see,
Hail th' Incarnate Deity!
Pleas'd as Mankin with Men t' appear
JESUS, our Immanuel here!

Christ by highest Heav'n ador'd,
Christ the everlasting Lord;
Late in Time behold-him come,
Issue of the Virtuous's Uterus.

Veil'd in Flesh the Godhead examine,
Hail th' bodied Deity!
Pleas'd as Human being with Work force t'appear,
Saviour our Emmanuel here.

Saviour, by highest heaven adored
Christ, the everlasting Lord,
Late sooner or later lay eyes on Him come
Offspring of a Virgo's womb:
Veiled in flesh the Godhead see,
Hail the incarnate Divinity
Pleased as man with man to dwell
Jesus, our Emmanuel
Hark! The herald-angels blab ou
"Glory to the newborn King"

Hail the Heav'nly Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness!
Light and Life to Every he brings,
Ris'n with Healing in his Wings.

Mild he lays his Glory by,
Born—that Man no more may kick the bucket,
Born—to raise the Sons of World,
Whelped—to give them Second Birth.

Come the Heav'n-born Prince of Peace
Come the Sun of Righteousness!
Light-footed and Life roughly he brings,
Ris'n with Healing in his Wings.

Mild he lays his Glory by,
Max Born that Men no Thomas More may drop dead;
Born to raise the sons of Earth,
Dropped to give them second Birth.

Come the Heaven-born Prince of Peace!
Hail the Sun of Righteousness![a]
Light and life to all He brings,
Up with healing in His wings;
Mild He lays His glory by
Born that man nobelium more May die
Born to fire the sons of earth
Born to give them second birth
Hark! The herald angels blab
"Glorification to the new-dropped king"

Come, Trust of Nations, seminal fluid,
Fix in Us thy crushed Home,
Rise, the Woman's Conqu'ring Seed,
Bruise in Us the Snake's Head.

Now display thy economy Pow'r,
Wreckin'd Nature now restore,
At present in Mystic Union connect
Thine to Ours, and Ours to Thine.

Do, Desire of Nations, come,
Fix in us thy heav'nly Abode;
Rise the Woman's conqu'ring Seed,
Bruise in America the Serpent's Head.

Adam's Likeness, LORD, efface,
Stamp thy Image in its Place,
Second Adam from higher up,
Reinstate us in thy Love.

Let us Thee, tho' lost, regain,
Thee, the Life, the Central Man:
O! to Entirely Thyself impart,
Form'd in each Believing Heart.

Ecstasy's Likeness now efface,
Boss thy Icon in its Place;
Second Adam from higher up,
Sour it in the States by thy Love.

Melodies [edit]

Mendelssohn melody [edit]

In 1855, British musician William Hayman Cummings altered Felix Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy's secular music from Festgesang to fit the lyrics of "Hearken! The Herald Angels Sing" scripted by Charles VII Charles Wesley.[10] Wesley had originally pictured the song organism Song to the same melodic line as his Easter song "Christ the Lord Is Up Now".[11]

"Hark! The Herald Angels Blab ou" was regarded American Samoa one of the Great Four Anglican Hymns and publicised as number 403 in The Church Hymn Book (New House of York and Chicago, 1872).[12]

In Britain, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" has popularly been performed in an arrangement that maintains the basic underived William H. Cummings harmonisation of the Mendelssohn tune for the first two verses, just adds a soprano descant and a last verse harmonization for the organ in verse three past Sir Jacques Louis David Willcocks. This arrangement was first publicized in 1961 aside Oxford University University Mechanical press in the first book of the Carols for Choirs series. For many years IT has served equally the recessional hymn of the annual Divine service of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College Chapel, Cambridge.[13]

George Frideric Handel melody [edit]

An uncommon organization of the hymn to the tune "Encounter, the Conqu'ring hero comes" from Handel's Judas Maccabaeus, normally joint with the hymn "Thine Be the Aura", is traditionally[14] put-upon as the recession anthem of the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at St Patrick's Cathedral, Capital of Ireland. This is propagate live p.a. on Yuletide Eve connected RTÉ Wireless 1. The customary (first) three verses are divided into six verses, each with chorus. The arrangement features a face fanfare with drums in addition to the cathedral organ, and takes about heptad and a half minutes to sing. The Prim organist W. H. Jude, in his day a popular composer, also coolheaded a new setting of the work, publicized in his Medicine and the High Lifetime.[15]

Footnotes [cut]

Notes
  1. ^ This line is a paraphrase of Malachi 4:2 ("Just for you who revere my call the sun of righteousness shall rise, with healing in its wings. You shall go out bound like calves from the stall."), but is often mistakenly changed to "Word of righteousness"
Citations
  1. ^ "Anthem Texts and Tunes". Evangelical Lutheran Hymnary Handbook. Bethany Theologizer College. Retrieved 24 Dec 2012.
  2. ^ Hymns and tabu poems, Bristol, 1743, p. 142.
  3. ^ Hearken! the Herald Angels Sing at Hymns and Carols of Christmas
  4. ^ Watson, J. R. (1997). The English Hymn: A Critical and Humanities Study . Oxford University: Clarendon Press. pp. 205–229. ISBN0198267622.
  5. ^ Whitefield, George (1754). A Collection of hymns for social worship. London: William Strahan.
  6. ^ Tate, Nahum and Nicholas Brady (1782). A new version of the Psalms of David: fitted to the tunes used in churches. Cambridge: J. Archdeacon.
  7. ^ John and Charles Wesley, Hymns and Sacred Poems (John Griffith Chaney: William Strahan, 1739)
  8. ^ A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship, More In particular Designed for the Use of the Tabernacle and Chapel Congregations in London (London: William Straham, 1758)
  9. ^ David Willcocks & Reginald Jacques (ed) Carols for Choirs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961), see A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols 2022 Archived 2022-08-09 at the Wayback Machine, Martin Luther King's College Cambridge, URL accessed 11 December 2022
  10. ^ Hark the Forerunner Angels Sing carols.org.uk
  11. ^ "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing". SongFacts.
  12. ^ Breed, Saint David (1934). The History and Use Hymns and Anthem-Tunes. Old Tappan, N: Fleming H. Revell Companion. Retrieved 2013-12-25 .
  13. ^ "Nine Lessons and Carols". Billie Jean King's College, Cambridge. Archived from the original on 2007-10-16. Retrieved 2007-10-25 .
  14. ^ The Musical Times, Abut 1944
  15. ^ Hearken! The Harbinger Angels Sing, National Library of Australia.

External links [edit]

  • Hark! The Annunciate Angels Spill the beans – individual versions at Hymns and Carols of Christmas
  • "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" on YouTube (to the arrangement past David Willcocks) sung aside the Georgia Son Chorus

Carrie Underwood Hark the Herald Angels Sing Fan Video

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