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The music was attributed to "W. M.". According to some websites, [4] the hymn is by the nineteenth-century Wilfrid Moreau from Poitiers. "Angels We Have Heard on High" was an 1862 paraphrase by James Chadwick [citation needed], the Roman Catholic Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle, in the north-east of England. Chadwick's lyrics are original in ...
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 .
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
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Smart was born in London, a nephew of the conductor Sir George Smart and son of a music publisher, orchestra director and accomplished violinist (also called Henry Smart). His sister was the artist and composer Harriet Anne Smart. He was educated at Highgate School, [1] and then studied for the law, but soon gave this up for music.
Angels' Carol is a popular sacred choral piece by John Rutter for Christmas. He wrote his own text, beginning "Have you heard the sound of the angel voices", [1] three stanzas with the refrain "Gloria in excelsis Deo". It has been part of recordings of collections of Christmas music, including one conducted by the composer.
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After this, a great many more angels appear, praising God with the words "Glory to God in the highest heaven, and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests." [ 2 ] Deciding to do as the angel had said, the shepherds travel to Bethlehem, and find Mary and Joseph and the infant Jesus lying in the manger , just as they had been told.