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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. [3 ...
Part 2, beginning "Vaterland, in deinen Gauen", was later adapted to the words of Charles Wesley’s Christmas carol "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing " (against Wesley's original request, as he had originally wanted more somber music, though he had been long deceased by this point).
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing [6] 1918 and every year since Wesley, Charles, and Whitefield, George: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Jakob Ludwig Felix; descant by Stephen J. Cleobury: A Hymn to the Mother of God [2] [Unknown] Liturgy of Saint Basil: Tavener, John: I Saw Three Ships [2] [Unknown] Traditional English Traditional English, arranged by Simon ...
Carols for Choirs is a collection of choral scores, predominantly of Christmas carols and hymns, first published in 1961 by Oxford University Press.It was edited by Sir David Willcocks and Reginald Jacques, and is a widely used source of carols in the British Anglican tradition and among British choral societies. [1]
Orchestral score and parts are now rented by European American Music. In 1983, two years after Robert Russell Bennett's death, Shaw recorded a somewhat revised digital stereo version of The Many Moods of Christmas , with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, released that December by Telarc .
In 1900, he published a collection of his own hymn tunes entitled Music and the Higher Life. [5] [15] Several of his hymn settings, such as "Onward, Christian Soldiers", "Eventide" and "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" are better known in alternative settings. [5] Jude wrote the words of a few hymns.
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (vers. 1) Sissel Kyrkjebø Charles Wesley: Christmas in Vienna III: 1995 [25] "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (vers. 2) Sissel Kyrkjebø Charles Wesley: Julekonserten: 1996 [55] "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" (vers. 3) Sissel Kyrkjebø The Mormon Tabernacle Choir: Charles Wesley: Spirit of the Season: 2007 [16]
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, text by Charles Wesley; Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending, text by Charles Wesley; Rock of Ages, Cleft for Me, text by Augustus Montague Toplady; King also found the following six hymns in 49 of the 52 hymnals: Abide with Me, Fast Falls the Eventide, text by Henry Francis Lyte