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Chadwick</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Based on</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Bible_(King_James)/Luke#2:8" class="extiw" title="s:Bible (King James)/Luke">Luke 2:8</a>–15</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Meter</th><td class="infobox-data">7.7.7.7 with refrain</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Melody</th><td class="infobox-data">"Gloria", arranged by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Shippen_Barnes" title="Edward Shippen Barnes">Edward Shippen Barnes</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 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title="File:Angels We Have Heard On High (piano) (Kevin MacLeod) (ISRC USUAN1100329).oga">"Angels We Have Heard On High"</a></div> <div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="215" style="width:215px;" data-durationhint="245" data-mwtitle="Angels_We_Have_Heard_On_High_(piano)_(Kevin_MacLeod)_(ISRC_USUAN1100329).oga" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Angels_We_Have_Heard_On_High_%28piano%29_%28Kevin_MacLeod%29_%28ISRC_USUAN1100329%29.oga" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/9/90/Angels_We_Have_Heard_On_High_%28piano%29_%28Kevin_MacLeod%29_%28ISRC_USUAN1100329%29.oga/Angels_We_Have_Heard_On_High_%28piano%29_%28Kevin_MacLeod%29_%28ISRC_USUAN1100329%29.oga.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></span></span></div> <div class="description">Performed by <a href="/wiki/Kevin_MacLeod" title="Kevin MacLeod">Kevin MacLeod</a> on <a href="/wiki/Piano" title="Piano">piano</a></div></div></div></div> </div> <p>"<b>Angels We Have Heard on High</b>" is a <a href="/wiki/Christmas_carol" title="Christmas carol">Christmas carol</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Hymn_tune" title="Hymn tune">hymn tune</a> "Gloria" from a traditional French song of unknown origin called "<b><span title="French-language text"><span lang="fr" style="font-style: normal;">Les Anges dans nos campagnes</span></span></b>", with <a href="/wiki/Paraphrase" title="Paraphrase">paraphrased</a> English lyrics by <a href="/wiki/James_Chadwick_(bishop)" title="James Chadwick (bishop)">James Chadwick</a>. The song's subject is the <a href="/wiki/Nativity_of_Jesus" title="Nativity of Jesus">birth of Jesus Christ</a> as narrated in the <a href="/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke">Gospel of Luke</a>, specifically the scene outside <a href="/wiki/Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem">Bethlehem</a> in which shepherds <a href="/wiki/Annunciation_to_the_shepherds" title="Annunciation to the shepherds">encounter a multitude of angels</a> singing and praising the newborn child. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Tune">Tune</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels_We_Have_Heard_on_High&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Tune"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>"Angels We Have Heard on High" is generally sung to the <a href="/wiki/Hymn_tune" title="Hymn tune">hymn tune</a> "Gloria", a traditional French carol as arranged by <a href="/wiki/Edward_Shippen_Barnes" title="Edward Shippen Barnes">Edward Shippen Barnes</a>. Its most memorable feature is its chorus, "<a href="/wiki/Gloria_in_excelsis_Deo" title="Gloria in excelsis Deo">Gloria in excelsis Deo</a>", where the "o" of "Gloria" is fluidly sustained through 16 notes of a rising and falling <a href="/wiki/Melisma" title="Melisma">melismatic</a> melodic sequence. </p><p>In England, the words of <a href="/wiki/James_Montgomery_(poet)" title="James Montgomery (poet)">James Montgomery</a>'s "<a href="/wiki/Angels_from_the_Realms_of_Glory" title="Angels from the Realms of Glory">Angels from the Realms of Glory</a>" are usually sung to this tune, with the "Gloria in excelsis Deo" refrain text replacing Montgomery's. It is from this usage that the tune sometimes is known as "Iris", the name of Montgomery's newspaper.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-ext-score noresize" data-midi="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/a/r/ar18cbk4a8jkz4cemzseuypeqd5np9k/ar18cbk4.midi"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/a/r/ar18cbk4a8jkz4cemzseuypeqd5np9k/ar18cbk4.png" width="766" height="399" alt="
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 An -- gels we have heard on high
 Sweet -- ly sing -- ing o'er the plains,
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 And the moun -- tains in re -- ply
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" /><div style="margin-top: 3px;"><audio controls=""><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/a/r/ar18cbk4a8jkz4cemzseuypeqd5np9k/ar18cbk4.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" /><div>Audio playback is not supported in your browser. You can <a href="//upload.wikimedia.org/score/a/r/ar18cbk4a8jkz4cemzseuypeqd5np9k/ar18cbk4.mp3">download the audio file</a>.</div></audio></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lyrics">Lyrics</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels_We_Have_Heard_on_High&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Lyrics"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The lyrics of "Angels We Have Heard on High" are inspired by, but not an exact translation of, the traditional French carol known as "<span title="French-language text"><span lang="fr" style="font-style: normal;">Les Anges dans nos campagnes</span></span>" ("the angels in our countryside"), whose first known publication was in 1842.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The music was attributed to "W. M.". According to some websites,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the hymn is by the nineteenth-century Wilfrid Moreau from Poitiers. "Angels We Have Heard on High" is the most-common English version, an 1862 <a href="/wiki/Paraphrase" title="Paraphrase">paraphrase</a> by <a href="/wiki/James_Chadwick_(bishop)" title="James Chadwick (bishop)">James Chadwick</a>, the Roman Catholic <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Hexham_and_Newcastle" title="Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle">Bishop of Hexham and Newcastle</a>, northeast England. Chadwick's lyrics are original in some sections, including the title, and loosely translated from the French in other sections. The carol quickly became popular in the <a href="/wiki/West_Country" title="West Country">West Country</a>, where it was described as "Cornish" by R. R. Chope, and featured in William Adair Pickard-Cambridge's <i>Collection of Dorset Carols</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It has since been translated into other languages,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and is widely sung and published. Modern hymnals usually include three verses.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="English">English</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels_We_Have_Heard_on_High&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: English"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div style="margin-left:1em;" class="poem"> <p>Angels we have heard on high<br /> Sweetly singing o'er the plains<br /> And the mountains in reply<br /> Echoing their joyous strains<br /> |: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :|<br /> <br /> Shepherds, why this jubilee?<br /> Why your joyous strains prolong?<br /> What the gladsome tidings be?<br /> Which inspire your heavenly songs?<br /> |: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :|<br /> <br /> Come to Bethlehem and see<br /> Him whose birth the angels sing;<br /> Come, adore on bended knee,<br /> Christ the Lord, the newborn King.<br /> |: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :|<br /> <br /> See Him in a manger laid<br /> Whom the choirs of angels praise;<br /> Mary, Joseph, lend your aid,<br /> While our heart in love we raise. <br /> |: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :| </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="French">French</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels_We_Have_Heard_on_High&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: French"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div lang="fr" style="margin-left:1em;" class="poem"> <p>Les anges dans nos campagnes<br /> Ont entonné l'hymne des cieux,<br /> Et l'écho de nos montagnes<br /> Redit ce chant mélodieux<br /> |: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :|<br /> <br /> Bergers, pour qui cette fête?<br /> Quel est l'objet de tous ces chants?<br /> Quel vainqueur, quelle conquête<br /> Mérite ces cris triomphants?<br /> |: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :|<br /> <br /> Ils annoncent la naissance<br /> Du libérateur d'Israël<br /> Et pleins de reconnaissance<br /> Chantent en ce jour solennel<br /> |: Gloria in excelsis Deo! :| </p> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="German">German</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels_We_Have_Heard_on_High&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: German"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1951, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lieselotte_Holzmeister&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lieselotte Holzmeister (page does not exist)">Lieselotte Holzmeister</a> (1921–1994) translation „Engel haben Himmelslieder“ (Angels Have Heavenly Songs) was the first transmission in German-speaking countries. Another German text version comes from <a href="/wiki/Otto_Abel" title="Otto Abel">Otto Abel</a> (1905–1977); „Hört der Engel helle Lieder“ (Hear the angels' bright songs). It was created in 1954 and was included in the <a href="/wiki/Evangelisches_Gesangbuch" title="Evangelisches Gesangbuch">german evangelical hymn book</a> (EG 54); The chorus is accompanied by a movement for three equal voices by Theophil Rothenberg. Also in 1954, <a href="/wiki/Maria_Luise_Thurmair" title="Maria Luise Thurmair">Maria Luise Thurmair</a> wrote "Engel auf den Feldern singen" (Angels sing in the fields). The same melody was used by <a href="/wiki/Diethard_Zils" title="Diethard Zils">Diethard Zils</a> for a hymn for Epiphany, "Seht ihr unsern Stern dort stehen" (Do your see our star). Both hymns are part of the Catholic hymnal <i><a href="/wiki/Gotteslob" title="Gotteslob">Gotteslob</a></i>. The austrian composer <a href="/wiki/Cesar_Bresgen" title="Cesar Bresgen">Cesar Bresgen</a> (1913–1988) created two other arrangements. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Johannes_Haas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Johannes Haas (page does not exist)">Johannes Haas</a> (1931–2004) created „Engel bringen frohe Kunde“ (Angels Bring Good News”).<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A translation by the evangelist <a href="/w/index.php?title=Manfred_Paul_(evangelist)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Manfred Paul (evangelist) (page does not exist)">Manfred Paul</a> (1938–2020) appeared in 1972 under the title „Friede, Freude hier auf Erden“ (Peace, Joy here on Earth).<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Rolf_Zuckowski" title="Rolf Zuckowski">Rolf Zuckowski</a> (*1947) published his text version „Hört ihr, wie die Engel singen“ (Hear how the angels sing) in 1987. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels_We_Have_Heard_on_High&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Ding_Dong_Merrily_on_High" title="Ding Dong Merrily on High">Ding Dong Merrily on High</a>" – similar <i>Gloria</i> refrain</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Christmas_carols" title="List of Christmas carols">List of Christmas carols</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Angels_We_Have_Heard_on_High&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: 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