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Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
"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".
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. A hundred years after the publication of ''Hymns and Sacred Poems'', in 1840, 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.〔(Hymns and sacred poems, Bristol, 1743, p. 142. )〕〔(Hark! the Herald Angels Sing ) at ''Hymns and Carols of Christmas''〕
== Lyrics ==
The original hymn was composed as a "Hymn for Christmas-Day" by Charles Wesley, included in the 1739 John Wesley collection ''Hymns and Sacred Poems.'' Wesley's original hymn began with the opening line "Hark how all the Welkin rings." This was changed to the familiar "Hark! the Herald Angels sing" by George Whitefield in his 1754 ''Collection of hymns for social worship''. A second change was made in the 1782 publication of the Tate and Brady ''New version of the Psalms of David''. This Cambridge edition of the ''New version'' (first published in 1696, revised in 1698), incorporated for the first time the ''Supplement'' to the ''New version'' that Tate and Brady had first published in 1700 as a separate publication. In this work, Whitefield's adaptation of Wesley's hymn appears, with the repetition of the opening line "Hark! the Herald Angels sing/ Glory to the newborn king" at the end of each stanza, as it is commonly sung today.
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