Angels We Have Heard On High
Digital Song Download • Traditional • A Light Classical Christmas
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Angels We Have Heard On High is a Christmas carol based on a traditional French carol known as Les Anges dans nos Campagnes. Classical guitar with string orchestra make this arrangemant truly unique. Its most common English version was translated in 1862 by James Chadwick and is most commonly sung to the hymn tune "Gloria", as arranged by Edward Shippen Barnes. Its most memorable feature is its chorus: Gloria in Excelsis Deo! (Latin for "Glory to God in the highest") where the sung vowel sound "o" of "Gloria" is fluidly sustained through a lengthy rising and falling melismatic melodic sequence:Glo-O-o-o-o-o-O-o-o-o-o-O-o-o-o-o-ri-a in Ex-cel-sis Deo!