Hark, hark what news the angels bring (Joseph Stephenson)

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• (Posted 2023-01-04)  CPDL #72157:         

Editor: William Hale (submitted 2023-01-04).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 57 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: This three-part setting of the eighteenth-century carol known as "The Old Hark", originally by Joseph Stephenson of Poole, appears in William Sandys' Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern (1833) "to show the manner in which the carol-singers sing in parts".

• (Posted 2022-12-21)  CPDL #71972:         

Editor: William Hale (submitted 2022-12-21).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 52 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: This three-part setting of the eighteenth-century carol known as "The Old Hark", originally by Joseph Stephenson of Poole, appears in Davies Gilbert's Some Ancient Christmas Carols (1822).

• (Posted 2016-05-05)  CPDL #39560:        (Sibelius 7)

Editor: Edmund Gooch (submitted 2016-05-05).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 40 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: The order of parts in this edition is as in the source, Joseph Stephenson's Church Harmony. The topmost part is printed in the alto clef in Church Harmony, identifying it as an alto part. The middle part is printed in the treble clef without indication of octave, and has here been treated as a tenor part. The time signature in the source is retorted time. Only the first verse of the text is underlaid in the source: the second verse is printed between the two systems of music, and has been added editorially.

General Information

Title: Hark, hark what news the angels bring
Composer: Joseph Stephenson
Lyricist: Anonymous

Number of voices: 3vv   Voicing: ATB
Genre: Sacred, Hymn, Carol   Meter: 88. 88 (L.M.)

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1757 in Church Harmony Sacred to Devotion, p. 28
Description: Hymn Tune Index tune number 2605a.

Original text and translations

English text

Hark, hark what news the angels bring,
Glad tidings of a new-born King:
Born of a maid, a virgin pure,
Born without sin, from guilt secure.

Hail, mighty prince, eternal King,
Let heav'n and earth rejoice and sing:
Angels and men with one accord
Break forth in songs, O praise the Lord.