Uploaded by ChristmasTimeTV on Nov 23, 2010
"Angels We Have Heard on High" is a Christmas carol. The song commemorates the story of the birth of Jesus Christ found in the Gospel of Luke, in which shepherds outside Bethlehem encounter a multitude of angels singing and praising the newborn child. "Angels We Have Heard on High" 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 De-o!
"Gloria in Excelsis Deo" is the first line of the song of the angels in the Gospel according to Luke.
The phrase also appears melismatically in the Latin version of the carol "O Come All Ye Faithful", though somewhat less extended:
Glo-o-o-O-ri-a in Ex-cel-sis De-o.
In England, the words of James Montgomery's "Angels from the Realms of Glory" are sung to this tune, except with the "Gloria in excelsis Deo" refrain. It is from this usage that the tune sometimes is known as Iris, the name of Montgomery's newspaper.
In the English version of "O Come All Ye Faithful", that phrase is poetically translated as Glo-ry to Go-od, Glo-ry in the High-est, (or, "Glo-ry to Go-od, In-- the-- High-est"), reducing the melisma to no more than two notes per word.
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is this on itunes??
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Best version I've ever heard!
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her voicebox is a rare stradivarious!
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@SuperCrazyCatMan Yeah... sure. whatever D:
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Christina you are very talented,and I hope you keep up!!amen!
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@BiGB424 Dont be sorry when you say the truth =)
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@SuperCrazyCatMan lol!! mariah CARRIE (Carey)... its Christina AGUILERAAAAA.. Voice is too strong and powerful to be mariah
2 months ago 2
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Heard this in Charlotte Russe at Roosevelt Field mall today. Had to find it :)
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BiGB424 1 year ago 40
Best version;)
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