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In 1840—a hundred years after the publication of Hymns and Sacred Poems—Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johannes Gutenberg's invention of movable type, and it is music from this cantata, adapted by the English musician William H. Cummings to fit the lyrics of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing", that is used for the carol today.
Lyrics from Hark the Sound, UNC-Chapel Hill Alma Mater, ca. 1908. "Hark the Sound" is the alma mater (song) of the University of North Carolina.It was written by William Starr Myers (class of 1897), a member of the UNC Glee Club at the time.
He plays the young woman a tune, and she remarks on the nightingale's song: Then with kisses and compliments he took her round the middle, And out of his knapsack he drawed forth a fiddle, And he played her such a fine tune as made the groves and valleys ring, Oh 'tis "Hark, hark" says the fair maid "How the nightingales sing". [4]
Song Music by Lyrics by Year Notes A "Abide with Me" William Henry Monk: Henry Francis Lyte: 1953 [1] with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra & Ray Charles Singers [2] "Act of Contrition" Joseph J. Leahy Traditional 1953 [1] with Mitchell Ayres Orchestra & Ray Charles Singers [3] "Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate the Positive" Harold Arlen: Johnny Mercer: 1958
Today, the song is almost always played immediately after the singing of "Hark The Sound", even during more formal occasions such as convocation and commencement. Just before home football and basketball games, the song is played by the Bell Tower near the center of campus, and is often played after major victories.
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Three verses of a variant of "Hark Hark", from the Westminster Drollery (1672) Dating the rhyme's origin is confounded by the existence of another that shares the same first line and overall structure. A lyric appearing in a hand-written text from 1672, also titled "Hark, Hark, the Dogs Do Bark", is not a nursery rhyme and does not address beggars.