Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
Choir - Sheet Music

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Instruments
Choir
Ensembles
Choir
Concert Band
Genres
Romantic Period
Christmas Carols
Composers
Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
Publishers
Baton Music
Formats
Score
Item Types
Physical
Levels
Grade 3
Usages
Christmas
School and Community
Concert band Choir and concert band - Grade 3

SKU: BF.BM441-SCORE

Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Rob Rouhl. Baton Music christmas series. Christmas. Full score. Duration 4:00. Baton Music #BM441-SCORE. Published by Baton Music (BF.BM441-SCORE).

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection Hymns and Sacred Poems, having been written by Charles Wesley but this is not the version widely known today. The popular version is the result of alterations by various hands, notably George Whitefield, Wesley's co-worker, who changed the opening couplet to the familiar one, and Felix Mendelssohn. A hundred years after the publication of Hymns and Sacred Poems, in 1840, Mendelssohn composed a cantata to commemorate Johann Gutenberg's invention of the printing press, 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 propels the carol we know. The opening of this arrangement is a brass fanfare as played by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.