It came upon the midnight clear (Tune: Noel) - Traditional
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- The christmas carol It came upon the midnight clear. This is a traditional English melody harmonised by A. Sullivan and known as 'Noel'. This is the tune normally used in the UK where as American viewers maybe more familiar with the tune 'Carol'. Possibly my favourite christmas carol, the words and tune are quite uplifting and it even has a vaguely interesting bass part!
Sung by the Sixteen. 
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I much prefer this music that the one we often hear.
A perfect marriage of melody and words. Sullivan, as so often, triumphs with his instinctive ability to harmonise a lovely tune with beautiful simplicity, and which is a joy to sing. Yes, it is a sentimental hymn, but I for one love it and am so pleased it has regained its justifiable popularity in recent years.
My choir sang this tune Christmas Eve, 2022.
This is one of the most beautiful Christmas carols of all time. Never fails to make me happy. Thank you so much for posting the sheet music as well!!!!! It makes it so much easier to practice the other parts! :)
A most beautiful yuletide song, superbly sung.
Angelic voices accompany the organ to produce a real Christmas musical treat.
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It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth,
To touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, goodwill to men,
From heaven's all-gracious King."
The world in solemn stillness lay,
To hear the angels sing.
Still through the cloven skies they come,
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heavenly music floats
O'er all the weary world;
Above its sad and lowly plains,
They bend on hovering wing,
And ever o'er its babel sounds
The blessed angels sing.
Yet with the woes of sin and strife
The world has suffered long;
Beneath the angel-strain have rolled
Two thousand years of wrong;
And man, at war with man, hears not
The love-song which they bring;
O hush the noise, ye men of strife,
And hear the angels sing.
And ye, beneath life's crushing load,
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow,
Look now! for glad and golden hours
come swiftly on the wing.
O rest beside the weary road,
And hear the angels sing!
For lo!, the days are hastening on,
By prophet bards foretold,
When with the ever-circling years
Comes round the age of gold
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling,
And the whole world give back the song
Which now the angels sing.
Thanks for uploading, I always now like using this tune to the words of 'O little town of Bethlehem', it fits remarkably well. Others to try are While Shephards watched to tune of Joy to the World and O come emmanuel to tune of the First Noel. A very confusing moment was had last year from the congregation when we did that and the reaction was just as confused when we first did it with the singers! Its remarkably hard it seems to overcome a lifetime of singing one tune.
thats the way British sing church songs , !!! just a different version , but I love the melody 💙
I agree I would perfer their version.
Beautiful, never gets old. Thank you for uploading this.
Hilarious - but you'd be murdered (or fired!!) in my Church if you tried that! ;-)