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Composed by Felix Mendelssohn(1809-1847)/Charles Wesley(1707-1788). Arranged by Joseph Pugh. Christian,Christmas,Classical,Sacred. Octavo. 12 pages. Joseph Pugh #6332107. Published by Joseph Pugh (A0.855170).In 1855, British musician William Hayman Cummings adapted Felix Mendelssohn's secular music from Festgesang to fit the lyrics of "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" written by Charles Wesley.[10] Wesley envisioned the song being sung to the same tune as his Easter song "Christ the Lord Is Risen Today",[11] and in some hymnals that tune is included for "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" along with the more popular Mendelssohn-Cummings tune.[12]
"Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" was regarded as one of the Great Four Anglican Hymns and published as number 403 in The Church Hymn Book (New York and Chicago, 1872).[13]
In Britain, "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" has popularly been performed in an arrangement that maintains the basic original William H. Cummings harmonisation of the Mendelssohn tune for the first two verses, but adds a soprano descant and a last verse harmonisation for the organ in verse three by Sir David Willcocks. This arrangement was first published in 1961 by Oxford University Press in the first book of the Carols for Choirs series. For many years it has served as the recessional hymn of the annual Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College Chapel, Cambridge.[14] wikipedia
This is Joseph Pugh' SATB arrangement of this classic Christmas carol.
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