English Christmas Carol And British Christmas Song - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 🎄❄

🎄 Merry Christmas OI 2025 And Happy New Year 2026 🎄 ------------- English Christmas Carol And British Christmas Song - Hark! The Herald Angels Sing --------- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Genre : Christmas carol Written :1739 Text :Charles Wesley Based on : Luke 2:8–14 Meter : 7.7.7.7 D with refrain Melody : "Vaterland, in deinen Gauen" from Festgesang by Felix Mendelssohn, adapted by William H. Cummings Perform : Kenny Baker and Eddie Dunstedter - Organ Player --------------- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" is an English Christmas carol authored by Charles Wesley in 1739. The carol, based on Luke 2:8–14 describes an angelic chorus singing of Christ's nativity. Wesley's version, entitled "Hymn for Christmas-Day", consisted of ten four-line verses. The version most commonly sung today includes six of these, arranged into three eight-line verses, with a refrain. The modern text incorporates revisions made by a number of authors, among them George Whitefield, who altered the opening couplet from "Hark how all the welkin rings / Glory to the King of Kings" to the familiar "Hark! the herald angels sing / Glory to the newborn King". In Britain, the carol is popularly performed in an arrangement that retains Cummings' original harmonisation of the Mendelssohn tune for the first two verses, but adds a soprano descant and a last verse harmonisation for the organ in verse three, by Sir David Willcocks. This arrangement was first published in 1961 by Oxford University Press in the first book of the Carols for Choirs series. For many years it has served as the recessional hymn of the annual Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College Chapel, Cambridge. ------------------- #christmas #merrychristmas #santaclaus #stnicholas #christmascarol #happynewyear #christmasspeech #christmas #christmasmusic #virginmary #jesuschrist #christianity ------------------- 🔔 Like , Share And Subscribe for more national anthems and historical insights And Feel Free To Request In The Comments and avoid political or hateful commentary. This Is For educational Only