Introducing melismatic singing and extended phrases
which strengthen breath control.
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- Grade: Fifth
- Origin: France - Old Carol, 1862
- Key: F Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: phrases: AaBb - song: AB, verse/refrain
- Rhythm: intermediate: | ta ta ta ta | ta/ ti ta/a | syncopation, | ta ti/ ri ta ti ti | syncopation,
| ta/a ti ti ti ti | ta/a ta/a | ta/a/a/a |
- Pitches: intermediate: So Do Re Mi Fa So La
- Intervals: beginners: Mi/So (m3), Do/Mi (M3), Re\So (P5), So/Do (P4), Re/So (P4)
- Musical Elements: notes: whole, half, dotted quarter, quarter, dotted eighth, sixteenth; long and short repeating melodic rhythmic patterns, melismatic (holding one vowel sound for many pitches), verse/refrain, syncopation, extended phrases
- Key Words: world geography: France, Bethlehem, West Bank, carol, Christmas carol, Christmas hymn, Bible story: Birth of Jesus, angels, heard, mountains, in reply, echoing, joyous, strains, shepherds, jubilee, prolong, tidings, inspire, birth, adore, bended, knee, Christ, Lord, new-born, King, Gloria in excelsis Deo, contractions: , abbreviations: o'er (over)
, heav'nly (heavenly)
- Recorder: advanced: introducing B flat, strengthening breath control with extended slurs
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"Angels We Have Heard on High"
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Angels we have heard on high,
Sweetly singing o'er the plains,
And the mountains in reply,
Echoing their joyous strains.
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Refrain: |
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Gloria in excelsis Deo,
Gloria in excelsis Deo. |
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Shepherds why this jubilee
Why you joyous strain prolong,
Say what may the tidings be
Which inspire your heav'nly song?
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Refrain |
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Come to Bethlehem and see
Him whose birth the angels sing;
Come adore on bended knee,
Christ the Lord, our new-born King! |
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Refrain |
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The words of the song are based on a traditional French carol known as Les Anges dans nos Campagnes (literally, The Angels in our Countryside). Its most common English version was translated in 1862 by James Chadwick. |
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