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Old English Christmas carol with intermediate intervals and range.
Description
- Grade: Fourth
- Origin: England – John F. Wade, 1751
- Key: G Major
- Time: 4/4
- Form: AB, verse/refrain
- Rhythm: beginners: | ta/a ta ta | ta/a ta/a |
| ta ta ta ta | ta/a ta/ ti | syncopation - Pitches: intermediate: So La Ti Do Re Mi Fa So
- Intervals: intermediate: Do\So/Do, Re\So, So/Mi, Mi\Ti, So/So (dominate octave skip), Mi\Do, Re\Ti, Do/Fa
- Musical Elements: notes: dotted half, half, dotted quarter, quarter, eighth; rest: quarter; vocal slur, pickup beat
- Key Words: world geography: England, Bethlehem; languages: English, Latin; sacred, birth of Jesus, 18th century, faithful, triumphant, King, angels, God, exultation, citizens, heaven, Lord, appearing, adore; old English: ye (you), yea (yes); abbreviation: giv’n (given)
- Recorder: intermediate: playing in G major, introducing F#
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O come, all ye faithful, joyful and triumphant, O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem; Come and behold him born the King of Angels: |
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O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, O come, let us adore Him, Christ the Lord. |
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Sing, choirs of angels, sing in exultation, Sing, all ye citizens of Heaven above; Glory to God, in the highest; |
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3. | Yea, Lord, we greet thee, born this happy morning; Jesus, to thee be all glory giv’n Word of the Father, now in flesh appearing! |
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LATIN
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4. | Adeste fideles læti triumphantes, Venite, venite in Bethlehem. Natum videte, Regem angelorum; |
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Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Venite adoremus, Dominum. |
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