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Free sheet music of "O Come, All ye Faithful" for SATB from Cantorion.org; Adeste Fideles, two 19th-century arrangements; Original Latin, English translation, historical notes; on YouTube, sung to David Willcocks' arrangement by the Georgia Boy Choir "O Come, All Ye Faithful" A cappella choir Collegium Vocale on Wiibiplay
"Mary, Did You Know?" is a Christmas song addressing Mary, mother of Jesus, with lyrics written by Mark Lowry in 1985, and music written by Buddy Greene in 1991. It was originally recorded by Christian recording artist Michael English on his self-titled debut solo album in 1991.
The music was attributed to "W. M.". According to some websites, [4] the hymn is by the nineteenth-century Wilfrid Moreau from Poitiers. "Angels We Have Heard on High" was an 1862 paraphrase by James Chadwick [citation needed], the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, in the north-east of England. Chadwick's lyrics are original in ...
This was the book that Harrington was flipping through in the midst of his editing the new hymnal. He came across this Christmas poem and decided it should be set to music. Collins says, "Going over to the organ, Harrington again studied the words to 'There's a Song in the Air'. This time he read them aloud, forming a tune around each phrase.
Though considered by many as a Christmas carol, [1] it is found in the Epiphany section of many hymnals and still used by many churches. [2] The music was adapted by William Henry Monk in 1861 from a tune written by Conrad Kocher in 1838. [1] The hymn is based on the visit of the Biblical Magi in the Nativity of Jesus. [3]
The song was first published in the 1582 Finnish song book Piae Cantiones, a volume of 74 medieval songs with Latin texts collected by Jaakko Suomalainen, a Finnish Lutheran cleric, and published by T. P. Rutha, a Catholic printer. [3] The song book had its origins in the libraries of cathedral song schools, whose repertory also had strong ...
It first aired during the Kraft Music Hall radio show (yes, sponsored by the food company) on December 25, 1941. Then-host Bing Crosby crooned the carol, which is soulful, longing, and sad anyway ...
Bishop William F. Anderson has given the story of the writing of the third stanza: When I was Secretary of the Board of Education, 1904–08, I wanted to use "Away in a manger", which I found with the designation "Martin Luther's Cradle Song", in the Children's Day program one year. It had but two stanzas, 1 and 2.