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Text: | Angels We Have Heard on High |
Translator: | James Chadwick |
Tune: | GLORIA |
Arranger: | Edward Shippen Barnes |
Media: | Audio recording |
1 Angels we have heard on high,
sweetly singing o’er the plains,
and the mountains in reply
echoing their joyous strains.
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
2 Shepherds, why this jubilee?
Why your joyous strains prolong?
What the gladsome tidings be
which inspire your heavenly song?
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
3 Come to Bethlehem and see
him whose birth the angels sing;
come, adore on bended knee
Christ, the Lord, the newborn King.
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Gloria in excelsis Deo!
Text Information | |
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First Line: | Angels we have heard on high |
Title: | Angels We Have Heard on High |
Translator: | James Chadwick (1860, alt.) |
Refrain First Line: | Gloria in excelsis Deo! |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7 with refrain |
Language: | English |
Publication Date: | 2013 |
Scripture: | |
Topic: | Christian Year: Nativity/Christmas; Christian Year: Epiphany; Jesus Christ: Birth |
Source: | French carol |
Tune Information | |
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Name: | GLORIA |
Arranger: | Edward Shippen Barnes (1937) |
Meter: | 7.7.7.7 with refrain |
Key: | F Major |
Source: | French carol |
Copyright: | © 1937, ren. 1965 H. Augustine Smith Jr. (admin. Fleming H. Revell Company, a div. of Baker Publishing Group) |
This French carol probably dates from the 1700s, though it was not printed until the following century. Because it uses a vernacular language for the narrative stanzas and Latin for the refrain, it belongs to a special category called “macaronic” or mixed-language texts.
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Audio recording: | Audio (MP3) |