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<poem> | |||
Hark! Hark! Hear you not, | |||
Hear you not a cheerful noise | |||
Which make the heavens ring with joy. | |||
See where light stars angels fly | |||
A thousand heavenly echoes cry: | |||
Behold, I bring you glad tidings | |||
Unto you and to all people, | |||
For unto you this day is born | |||
a Savior which is Christ the Lord. | |||
And this shall be a sign unto you, | |||
You shall find the babe meanly wrapped | |||
In swaddling bands and lying in a manger. | |||
And suddenly there was with the angels | |||
A multitude of the heavenly host, | |||
And they were praising God and saying: | |||
Glory to God, Glory to God in the highest. | |||
O how can men forbear to sing | |||
When earth with angels' notes do ring? | |||
Then join all your voices, | |||
One chorus to raise, | |||
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Ascribing all honor, all glory and praise. | |||
What greater love, what greater gift, | |||
Can God on man bestow, | |||
'Tis half the angel's heaven above, | |||
And all our heaven below. | |||
Then join all your voices, | |||
One chorus to raise, | |||
Ascribing all honor, all glory and praise. | |||
Lord, and shall angels have their songs, | |||
And men no tunes to raise? | |||
O may we lose these useless tongues | |||
When they forget to praise! | |||
Glory to God, that reigns above, | |||
That pitied us forlorn, | |||
We join to sing our Maker's love, | |||
For there's a Savior born. | |||
Hallelujah, Hallelujah, | |||
Hosanna in the highest. | |||
</poem> | |||
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[[Category:Sheet music]] | [[Category:Sheet music]] | ||
[[Category:Classical music]] | [[Category:Classical music]] |
Revision as of 04:41, 18 February 2015
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- Editor: Lee T. Lovallocreate page (submitted 2015-02-18). Score information: Letter, 19 pages, 295 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes: Transposed down a minor 3rd. All dynamic markings are editorial; suggested tempos are based on Hans Nathan's analysis of Billings' Italian tempo indications and meter signatures. Skeletal keyboard reduction is editorial.
General Information
Title: An Anthem for Christmas
Composer: William Billings
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Anthem
Language: English
Instruments: A cappella
Published: 1794
Description: Original key C major but with note from Billings "N.B. Set this piece one note lower". Text presumably by Billings with note: "Words from Luke 2d and elsewhere".
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Original text and translations
English text
Hark! Hark! Hear you not, |
Ascribing all honor, all glory and praise. |
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