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"Angels We Have Heard on High" is generally sung to the hymn tune "Gloria", a traditional French carol as arranged by Edward Shippen Barnes.Its most memorable feature is its chorus, "Gloria in excelsis Deo", where the "o" of "Gloria" is fluidly sustained through 16 notes of a rising and falling melismatic melodic sequence.
In the United Kingdom the hymn has nowadays come to be sung invariably to the same tune as the original French carol, "Iris" [3] (as published in the Oxford Book of Carols). [1] A variation of this tune, "Gloria", is used for the American carol Angels We Have Heard on High.
In the UK a slightly different arrangement of "Angels We Have Heard on High" ("Gloria") 1816 "Angels We Have Heard on High" based on traditional hymn "Gloria" (a French traditional carol "Les Anges dans nos Campagnes"); English translation by Bishop James Chadwick, tune arranged by Edward Shippen Barnes 1862 "As with Gladness Men of Old"
The melody in neume notation " Gloria in excelsis Deo" (Latin for "Glory to God in the highest") is a Christian hymn known also as the Greater Doxology (as distinguished from the "Minor Doxology" or Gloria Patri) and the Angelic Hymn [1] [2] /Hymn of the Angels. [3]
The song first appeared in print in 1857 in the hymnal Het nachtegaaltje (The little nightingale), [1] compiled and written by lyricist Isaac Bikkers (1833-1903). [ 2 ] The hymn is thus one of a series that have drawn on that text, including Angels We Have Heard on High , Angels from the Realms of Glory , While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks ...
Angels We Have Heard on High; Anima Christi (Soul of my Saviour) Asperges me; As a Deer; As I Kneel Before You (also known as Maria Parkinson's Ave Maria) At That First Eucharist; At the Lamb's High Feast We Sing; At the Name of Jesus; Attende Domine; Aurora lucis rutilat; Ave Maria; Ave maris stella; Ave Sanctissima [2] Ave verum corpus
Rutter, who composed many works to celebrate Christmas, wrote his own text for Angels' Carol, beginning "Have you heard the sound of the angel voices". [1] The text alludes to several aspects of the Christmas story, with the Latin refrain "Gloria in excelsis Deo" from the angels' song mentioned in the Gospel of Luke narration of the annunciation to the shepherds.
The Herald Angels Sing/The Music Of Christmas"(Charles Wesley, Felix Mendelson, Chapman) – 6:43 "Christmas Is All In The Heart" (feat. CeCe Winans) – 5:15 "Angels We Have Heard on High" (Edward Shippen Barnes) – 5:39 "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel" (John Mason Neale, Henry Sloane Coffin) – 3:28 "Our God Is With Us" (Chapman, Michael W. Smith ...