Angels We Have Heard on High

Submitted by Rick.Wheeler on Thu, 2010/12/09 - 4:08pm
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ID: 
529
Composition Date: 
1862
Composer: 
Traditional
Arrangers / Editors: 
Wheeler, Richard W. (1967- )
Proper Liturgical Usage: 
Processional
Recessional
Devotions
Proper Liturgical Time: 
Yuletide (Christmastide)
Proper Liturgical Day: 
Any
Votive: 
F
Composition Type: 
Carol
Texture: 
Polyphonic
Voices: 
SATB
Language: 
Modern English
Difficulty: 
Easy
Musical Style: 
Modern Hymnody

Parts

Angels We Have Heard on High: Soprano
Angels We Have Heard on High: Soprano
Angels We Have Heard on High: Alto
Angels We Have Heard on High: Alto
Angels We Have Heard on High: Tenor
Angels We Have Heard on High: Tenor
Angels We Have Heard on High: Bass
Angels We Have Heard on High: Bass
Lyrics: 

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.

Shepherds, why this jubilee? Why your joyous strains prolong? What the gladsome tidings be Which inspire your heavenly song? Gloria in excelsis Deo.

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.

See Him in a manger laid Jesus Lord of heaven and earth; Mary, Joseph, lend your aid, With us sing our Savior's birth. Gloria in excelsis Deo.