聽阿,天使高聲唱 (Hark! The herald angels sing)

聽阿,天使高聲唱:「榮耀歸與新生王,(Tīng ā, tiānshǐ gāo shēng chàng:`Róngyào guī yǔ xīnshēng wáng,)

Author: Charles Wesley
Tune: MENDELSSOHN (51171)
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Author: Charles Wesley

Charles Wesley, M.A. was the great hymn-writer of the Wesley family, perhaps, taking quantity and quality into consideration, the great hymn-writer of all ages. Charles Wesley was the youngest son and 18th child of Samuel and Susanna Wesley, and was born at Epworth Rectory, Dec. 18, 1707. In 1716 he went to Westminster School, being provided with a home and board by his elder brother Samuel, then usher at the school, until 1721, when he was elected King's Scholar, and as such received his board and education free. In 1726 Charles Wesley was elected to a Westminster studentship at Christ Church, Oxford, where he took his degree in 1729, and became a college tutor. In the early part of the same year his religious impressions were much deepene… Go to person page >

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First Line: 聽阿,天使高聲唱:「榮耀歸與新生王,(Tīng ā, tiānshǐ gāo shēng chàng:`Róngyào guī yǔ xīnshēng wáng,)
Title: 聽阿,天使高聲唱 (Hark! The herald angels sing)
English Title: Hark! the herald angels sing
Author: Charles Wesley
Language: Chinese

Tune

MENDELSSOHN (51171)

The tune is from the second chorus of Felix Mendelssohn's (PHH 279) Festgesang (Op. 68) for male voices and brass; it was first performed in 1840 at the Gutenberg Festival in Leipzig, a festival celebrating the anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Mendelssohn's tune is similar…

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Sheng tu shi ge = Hymnary (聖徒詩歌) #46

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