Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 2018

listen: POP

listen: ORC

Info:
Words: Charles Wesley
Music: Felix Mendelssohn
Key: D major
Time Sig: 4/4
Tempo: 114 | up tempo
Tune: MENDELSSOHN
Meter: 7.7.7.7.D. with refrain
CCLI #: 5205558
Verse: Luke 2:14
Ideas:
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing 2018 is a part of the Christmas Medley 2 and I liked it so much I've broken it out into a single arrangement.

The version in the medley starts upbeat and is led by a male worship leader, so I've changed this "free-standing" version by lowering it a few keys to D major so it can be led by a female worship leader.

Now the arrangement starts out quietly and builds to a pop feel - try using it to open a December service or use it during your offertory.

The sheet music is not merely transposed - I've adjusted the piano and instrumental parts to best fit the lower key.

Guitar Spotlight: This MP3 exposes electric, acoustic and bass guitars so your players can hear their parts more clearly - electric hard left, acoustic hard right.

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This arrangement can be transposed using the free Finale Notepad (Windows only.)
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The modern worship lyrics trend for projection is to leave out most punctuation for a clean look. The original hymncharts lyrics text file contains punctuation. Our website hymndex.com was created to help churches build hymn lyric slides without punctuation.
Instruments mp3s are the arrangements played one time through with just piano and instrumental parts to give you an idea of the orchestration. In the early days of hymncharts before I made vocal recordings I had created these instruments mp3s as a quick demo. Since I now create both a POP and an ORC (orchestrated) mix I no longer make instrumental mp3s for newer arrangements.
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