Hark, what mean those holy voices (Arthur Sullivan)
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- CPDL #21978:
Capella
- Editor: James Gibb (submitted 2010-07-18). Score information: A4, 5 pages, 90 kB Copyright: CPDL
- Edition notes:
- CPDL #03509:
- Editor: Paul Howarth (submitted 2002-04-07). Score information: A4, 8 pages, 314 kB 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.