Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices? (Arthur Sullivan)

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Editor: Paul Howarth (submitted 2002-04-07).   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: from the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive

General Information

Title: Hark! What Mean Those Holy Voices?
Composer: Arthur Sullivan
Lyricist: John Cawood, 1819

Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Sacred, Carol

Language: English
Instruments: Organ
Published:

Description: Music: Rathbun, Christmas Hymn - Meter: 87 87

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Original text and translations

English text

1.

Hark! what mean those holy voices,

sweetly sounding through the skies?

Lo! the angelic host rejoices

heavenly alleluias rise.

2.

Listen to the wondrous story,

which they chant in hymns of joy;

"Glory in the highest, glory!

Glory be to God most high!

3.

"Peace on earth, good will from heaven,

reaching to earth's utmost bound;

man redeemed, his sins forgiven,

loud our golden harps shall sound.

4.

"Christ is born, the great Anointed;

heaven and earth his praises sing:

O receive whom God appointed,

for your Prophet, Priest and King.

5.

"Hasten, mortals to adore him;

learn his Name to magnify,

till in heaven you sing before him

Glory be to God most high!"

6.

Let us learn the wondrous story

of our great Redeemer's birth;

spread the brightness of his glory

till it cover all the earth.