Details
- Ensembles:
- String Orchestra String Quartet
- Genres:
- Christian Romantic Period Jazz Christmas Carols
- Composers:
- Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
- Publishers:
- Chicory Music
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Format:
- Score Set of Parts Score and Parts
- Item types:
- Digital
- Artist:
- Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
- Usages:
- Christmas
- Number of Pages:
- 11
SKU: A0.734335
Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Dennis Ruello. This edition: pdf. Christian, Christmas, Jazz. Score and parts. 11 pages. Chicory Music #2946001. Published by Chicory Music (A0.734335).HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING - String Orchestra / String Quartet - Intermediate
"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. Wesley had requested and received slow and solemn music for his lyrics, not the joyful tune expected today. Moreover, Wesley's original opening couplet is "Hark! how all the welkin rings / Glory to the King of Kings".[1]
The popular version is the result of alterations by various hands, notably by Wesley's co-worker George Whitefield who changed the opening couplet to the familiar one, and by Felix Mendelssohn. In 1840, a hundred years after the publication of Hymns and Sacred Poems, 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 known today.This arrangement, in the string friendly key of G concert, can be preformed as a quartet with or without the optional acoustic bass and drum set parts. It may be performed as a string orchestra with all the string parts plus or minus the drum set part. Your performers and audience will enjoy the modern harmonies used in this presentation. Performance time approx. 2 minutes 6 seconds.
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- ArrangeMe:
- Chicory Music
- Series:
- ArrangeMe
- Artists:
- Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn
- Ensemble:
- String Orchestra String Quartet
- Publisher:
- Chicory Music