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🎄 Experience the timeless Christmas hymn "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" 4 Verse Version performed by traditional Cathedral choir in breathtaking 4K. 5.1 Surround 4800,320bps 📜 Text: Charles Wesley (1739), revised by George Whitefield (1753) 🎵 Music: Felix Mendelssohn (1840), arranged by William H. Cummings (1855) ✨ Part of our Sacred Christmas Hymns - Cathedral Series Hark! The Herald Angels Sing — Origin and Authorship The Christmas hymn Hark! The Herald Angels Sing originated as a poem by Charles Wesley (1707 – 1788), younger brother of John Wesley and co-founder of Methodism. Wesley first published the text under the title “Hymn XIV — On the Nativity of Our Lord” in Hymns and Sacred Poems (London: Strahan & Farmer, 1739). His original opening line read “Hark how all the Welkin rings, Glory to the King of Kings.” The word welkin (meaning “the vault of heaven”) reflected 18th-century poetic diction. The complete 1739 hymn appeared with ten quatrains, set to a slow, reflective meter. A digitized copy of the first edition survives in the John Rylands Library, University of Manchester, and at the Wesley Center Online (Northwest Nazarene University): https://wesley.nnu.edu/charles-wesley... . In 1753 evangelist George Whitefield (1714 – 1770) adapted Wesley’s text for his own A Collection of Hymns for Social Worship (London: William Strahan, 1753, Hymn 60). Whitefield altered Wesley’s first line to “Hark! the Herald Angels sing, Glory to the new-born King”—a phrase that immediately entered popular usage—and shortened and rearranged the remaining stanzas. This 1753 revision forms the lyrical core still sung today. A searchable facsimile is available through the HathiTrust Digital Library: https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record... . The music now universally associated with the hymn came more than a century later. In 1840, German composer Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809 – 1847) wrote a festive cantata Festgesang (“Festival Song”) for the four-hundredth anniversary of Gutenberg’s printing press. Its second chorus, “Vaterland, in deinen Gauen,” supplied the melodic material later adapted by English organist William H. Cummings (1831 – 1915). Cummings arranged Mendelssohn’s theme to fit Whitefield’s words in 1855, publishing the setting under the tune name Mendelssohn in various mid-nineteenth-century English hymnals, notably The Methodist Hymn Book with Tunes (London: Methodist Publishing House, 1889). This pairing of Whitefield’s revised text and Cummings’s adaptation of Mendelssohn’s melody remains the definitive form worldwide. Scholarly consensus on authorship and dating is consistent across the standard hymnological literature: John Julian, A Dictionary of Hymnology (London: John Murray, 1892), pp. 480–481. Nicholas Temperley, The Music of the English Parish Church, Vol. 1 (Cambridge University Press, 1979). J. R. Watson, The English Hymn: A Critical and Historical Study (Oxford University Press, 1997). Hymnary.org authoritative entry: https://hymnary.org/text/hark_the_her... . All agree that the text as now known is Wesley (1739) → rev. Whitefield (1753), set to Mendelssohn (1840), arranged by Cummings (1855). The three-verse structure familiar today, occasionally with Wesley’s final stanza “Come, Desire of nations, come” restored as an optional fourth, derives from Whitefield’s condensation. The hymn entered the English-speaking repertoire via Hymns Ancient and Modern (1861) and The English Hymnal (1906), and it appears verbatim in The Hymnal 1940 (Episcopal Church USA) and The Methodist Hymnal (1939). Because all contributing texts and tunes pre-date 1900, the hymn is public domain worldwide. Its authentic attribution is therefore: Words: Charles Wesley (1739), rev. George Whitefield (1753) Music: Felix Mendelssohn (1840) Arrangement: William H. Cummings (1855) Священний різдвяний гімн "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" у виконанні традиційного соборного хору. 4K відео з оригінальним текстом Чарльза Веслі 1739 року. Ідеально для святкової атмосфери. 🎄⛪ Święty kolęda "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" w wykonaniu tradycyjnego chóru katedralnego. Wideo 4K z oryginalnym tekstem Charlesa Wesleya z 1739 roku. Idealne na świąteczny nastrój. 🎄⛪ Heilige Weihnachtshymne "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" aufgeführt von traditionellem Domchor. 4K- Inno natalizio sacro "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" eseguito da coro tradizionale di cattedrale. Video 4K con testo originale di Charles Wesley del 1739. Perfetto per l'atmosfera festiva. 🎄⛪ Himno navideño sagrado "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" interpretado por coro tradicional de catedral. Video 4K con texto original de Charles Wesley de 1739. Perfecto para ambiente festivo. 🎄⛪ 0:00 - Hark The Herald Angels Sing (Verse 1: Glory to the Newborn King) 1:00 - Verse 2: Christ the Everlasting Lord 2:00 - Verse 3: Hail the Heaven-Born Prince of Peace 3:00 - Verse 4: Come Desire of Nations (Grand Finale)