Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 1 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1191433

Composed by Felix Mendelssohn, Lyrics by Charles Wesley and others. Arranged by William Hayman Cummings, Ed. Piacere Music Sheets. A Cappella,Christmas,Instructional,Romantic Period,Standards. Octavo. 11 pages. Piacere Music Sheets #790952. Published by Piacere Music Sheets (A0.1191433).

Opus/Catalog Number: WoO 9, MWV D 4
Key/Tone: G major
Year/Date of Composition: 1840/1855
Difficulty: Grade 3/12 (Easy)
Obs.: This hymn is a famous Christmas carol. The music was composed by Felix Mendelssohn, and it is part of the second movement of Festgesang zum Gutenbergfest, WoO 9.
In 1855, the English organist William Hayman Cummings (1831-1915) adapted part of this movement to Charles Wesley's Christmas hymn text, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.
This arrangement is made for Choir SATB (Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass).
Included: Full score and individual parts.

SATB choir with optional, a cappella (With Optional a cappella) - Intermediate - Digital Download

SKU: LX.15-1084

SATB A Cappella. Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Edited by Francis J Guentner. Prima Cantate Series. Educational. Octavo. 16 pages. Roger Dean Publishing #e15/1084. Published by Roger Dean Publishing (LX.15-1084).

UPC: 000308037371.

The part song, written for mixed choruses or equal-voiced ensembles, was a form actively cultivated by nineteenth-century German composers, Schubert, Schumann, Weber, Brahms -- and in this case, Mendelssohn. In fact, Mendelssohn wrote more than 25 of these very attractive pieces. The songs were intended for amateur or semi-professional groups. Their texture is for the most part homophonic, and they were to be sung without accompaniment. The lyrics of some of the finest German poets were often chosen for the texts and Mendelssohn has used texts by Uhland for both of these settings.

(from Sech Lieder im Freien zu singen). By Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Edited by Scott MacPherson. For SATB choir, a cappella. Educational Octavo. Prima Cantate Series. Concert. Published by Roger Dean Publishing

Choral SATB choir - Digital Download

SKU: H1.A479DP

Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Lloyd Alvin Pfautsch. Piano Accompaniment. Classics, General Worship, Masterwork, Mercy, Sacred. Octavo. 14 pages. Hope Publishing - Digital #A479DP. Published by Hope Publishing - Digital (H1.A479DP).

By Felix Mendelssohn.

Classic hymn by Felix Mendelssohn.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 1 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.841363

Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn, Samuel Arnold, and William H. Cummings. Arranged by Michele Galvagno. Christian,Christmas,Praise & Worship,Sacred. Octavo. 18 pages. Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele #6098159. Published by Artistic Score Engraving di Galvagno Michele (A0.841363).

This year's Christmas publication choice fell on a song very dear to me: Hark! The herald angels sing. The text, inspired by Luke’s Gospel (2:14), appears for the first time in a collection of Christmas carols called Hymns and Sacred Poems in 1739, jointly written by Charles Wesley (1707-1788 ) and George Whitefield (1714-1770), two of the founding members of the Methodist movement.

The version we know today is the one adapted by William H. Cummings (1831-1915) from the section Vaterland, in deinen Gauen of the Festgesang zum Gutenbergfest, WoO 9, by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy (1809-1847). The story, however, is more complex and articulated than that.

The original version of the text, written by Wesley, bearing the title Hymn for Christmas-Day, had received only slow and solemn music for its verses, music now almost completely discarded. Also, his original opening lines were Hark! How all the welkin rings / Glory to the King of Kings .

The version that has been passed to us is the result of alterations made by different hands, especially those of Whitefield, who changed the initial couplet into the one we know today.

In 1840-one hundred years after the publication of Hymns and sacred Poems-Mendelssohn composed a cantata commemorating Johann Gutenberg’s invention of movable-type printing. The English musician William H. Cummings finally adapted Mendelssohn’s music around 1855 in order to fit the music to the verses and give it its present look.

In this edition we propose the version that every listener expects to hear when reading the title on the programme and, immediately after, one of the few original versions that have reached us in their entirety, that is the one set to music by Samuel Arnold (1740-1802) and available today in The British Minstrel, and Musical and Literary Miscellany, vol. 3, published in 1843.

The proposed instrumentations are those of the classical string quartet and the cello quartet. Both variants are very simple to perform and are certainly suitable for small string ensembles formed in musical schools. In the cello quartet version, the only relatively complex part is that of the first cello, which should be left to the teacher or to a student able to play up to the 7th position without excessive troubles.

I hope this music can bring you the serenity that made me prepare it.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.855170

Composed by Felix Mendelssohn(1809-1847)/Charles Wesley(1707-1788). Arranged by Joseph Pugh. Christian,Christmas,Classical,Sacred. Octavo. 12 pages. Joseph Pugh #6332107. Published by Joseph Pugh (A0.855170).

In 1855, British musician William Hayman Cummings adapted Felix Mendelssohn's secular music from Festgesang to fit the lyrics of Hark! The Herald Angels Sing written by Charles Wesley.[10] Wesley envisioned the song being sung to the same tune as his Easter song Christ the Lord Is Risen Today,[11] and in some hymnals that tune is included for Hark! The Herald Angels Sing along with the more popular Mendelssohn-Cummings tune.[12]

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing was regarded as one of the Great Four Anglican Hymns and published as number 403 in The Church Hymn Book (New York and Chicago, 1872).[13]

In Britain, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing has popularly been performed in an arrangement that maintains the basic original William H. Cummings harmonisation of the Mendelssohn tune for the first two verses, but adds a soprano descant and a last verse harmonisation for the organ in verse three by Sir David Willcocks. This arrangement was first published in 1961 by Oxford University Press in the first book of the Carols for Choirs series. For many years it has served as the recessional hymn of the annual Service of Nine Lessons and Carols at King's College Chapel, Cambridge.[14] wikipedia

This is Joseph Pugh' SATB arrangement of this classic Christmas carol.

Choral Choir,Choral,SATB Chorus - Level 2 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1477296

Composed by Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847). Arranged by Laurie de Leonne. 19th Century,Classical,Holiday,Romantic Period. 60 pages. Dandelion Music Press #1054717. Published by Dandelion Music Press (A0.1477296).

Community, collegiate, and high school choirs alike can perform this previously unsung Romantic-Era piano work by Felix Mendelssohn Songs Without Words Op. 19.  16'30 total performance time.  Moderate/Easy difficulty, Intermediate/Advanced piano part.  Can also be practiced or performed with a recording of the original Mendelssohn work as an accompaniment track. 

This new yet historical winter cantata features 6 new secular texts on varying themes of winter: 

1.  Winter Comes Again-- the changing of seasons from autumn to winter, evoking themes of Thanksgiving
2.  The Wind-- blustery winter storms, vividly described
3.  Let's Go Sledding-- lighthearted and enthusiastic zeal for winter play
4.  So Long Ago-- hearing family stories by the fireside
5.  Your Brother Called-- a frantic family member relays news of a flight delay
6.  In Wintertime-- deep and silent winter weather, looking toward springtime

Movements 1-3:  https://youtu.be/ckogojxzsEM?si=lmD7kycUKrvBnQC6
Movements 4-6:  https://youtu.be/3QMQrETUg-Q?si=u-d7-iDCyVWIkCNQ.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 4 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.818161

Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn. Arranged by Philip Le Bas. Christian,Romantic Period,Sacred. Octavo. 33 pages. Philip Le Bas #3533793. Published by Philip Le Bas (A0.818161).

O for the wings of a dove, from the cantata Hear my Prayer by Felix Mendelssohn, with the accompaniment here arranged by Philip Le Bas for string quartet (with double bass instead of cello), flute and clarinet.

Choral Choir (SATB) - Level 3 - Digital Download

SKU: A0.1194378

Composed by Felix Bartholdy Mendelssohn and Harriet B. Stowe. Arranged by Alden Vines. A Cappella,Religious,Sacred. Octavo. 4 pages. Alden Vines #793750. Published by Alden Vines (A0.1194378).

Featuring a soprano solo and tenor feature, this arrangement of Harriet B. Stowe's text Still, Still with Thee set to Song Without Words from Op.30 no.3 by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, as appears in the 1933 Cokesbury Worship Hymnal, makes an excellent call to prayer, prayer response, or communion number.