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O Come, All Ye Faithful

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"O Come, All Ye Faithful", also known as "", is a Christmas carol that has been attributed to various authors, including John Francis Wade (1711–1786), John Reading (1645–1692), King John IV of Portugal (1604–1656), and anonymous Cistercian monks. [1]

Table of Contents

  1. 53 relations: A cappella, Beniamino Gigli, Bonaventure, Buckfast Abbey, Carols for Choirs, Catholic Church in England and Wales, Charles Edward Stuart, Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Christmas carol, Christmas music, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory, Cistercians, David Willcocks, Descant, Don Michael Randel, Duke of Leeds, Durham University, Epiphany (holiday), Evangelisches Gesangbuch, Frederick Oakeley, Friedrich Heinrich Ranke, George Frideric Handel, Georgia Boy Choir, Gospel of John, Gregorian chant, Hymn, Hymn tune, Jacobitism, John 1, John Francis Wade, John IV of Portugal, John Reading (composer and organist), Lancashire, Last verse harmonisation, List of Christmas carols, Marcos Portugal, Marylebone, Mass in the Catholic Church, Midnight Mass, Nine Lessons and Carols, Oxford University Press, Pipe organ, Plainsong, Sacred Harp, Samuel Webbe, SATB, Soprano, St. Peter's Basilica, Stonyhurst College, ... Expand index (3 more) »

  2. 18th-century hymns in Latin
  3. Catholic music
  4. Charles Edward Stuart
  5. Christmas carols in Latin
  6. Hymns in The English Hymnal
  7. Jacobite songs

A cappella

Music performed a cappella, less commonly spelled a capella in English, is music performed by a singer or a singing group without instrumental accompaniment.

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Beniamino Gigli

Beniamino Gigli (20 March 1890 – 30 November 1957) was an Italian opera singer (lyric tenor).

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Bonaventure

Bonaventure (Bonaventura da Bagnoregio.; Bonaventura de Balneoregio.; born Giovanni di Fidanza; 1221 – 15 July 1274) was an Italian Catholic Franciscan bishop, cardinal, scholastic theologian and philosopher.

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Buckfast Abbey

Buckfast Abbey forms part of an active Benedictine monastery at Buckfast, near Buckfastleigh, Devon, England.

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Carols for Choirs

Carols for Choirs is a collection of choral scores, predominantly of Christmas carols and hymns, first published in 1961 by Oxford University Press.

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Catholic Church in England and Wales

The Catholic Church in England and Wales (Ecclesia Catholica in Anglia et Cambria; Yr Eglwys Gatholig yng Nghymru a Lloegr) is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See.

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Charles Edward Stuart

Charles Edward Louis John Sylvester Maria Casimir Stuart (31 December 1720 – 30 January 1788) was the elder son of James Francis Edward Stuart making him the grandson of James VII and II, and the Stuart claimant to the thrones of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1766 as Charles III.

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Choir of King's College, Cambridge

The Choir of King's College, Cambridge is an English Anglican choir.

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Christmas carol

A Christmas carol is a carol (a song or hymn) on the theme of Christmas, traditionally sung at Christmas itself or during the surrounding Christmas holiday season. O Come, All Ye Faithful and Christmas carol are Christmas carols.

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Christmas music

Christmas music comprises a variety of genres of music regularly performed or heard around the Christmas season.

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Christoph Willibald Gluck

Christoph Willibald (Ritter von) Gluck (2 July 1714 – 15 November 1787) was a composer of Italian and French opera in the early classical period.

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Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory

The Church of Our Lady of the Assumption and St Gregory is a Catholic church on Warwick Street, Westminster.

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Cistercians

The Cistercians, officially the Order of Cistercians ((Sacer) Ordo Cisterciensis, abbreviated as OCist or SOCist), are a Catholic religious order of monks and nuns that branched off from the Benedictines and follow the Rule of Saint Benedict, as well as the contributions of the highly-influential Bernard of Clairvaux, known as the Latin Rule.

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David Willcocks

Sir David Valentine Willcocks, (30 December 1919 – 17 September 2015) was a British choral conductor, organist, composer and music administrator.

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Descant

A descant, discant, or is any of several different things in music, depending on the period in question; etymologically, the word means a voice (cantus) above or removed from others.

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Don Michael Randel

Don Michael Randel (born December 9, 1940) is an American musicologist, specializing in the music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance in Spain and France.

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Duke of Leeds

Duke of Leeds was a title in the Peerage of England.

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Durham University

Durham University (legally the University of Durham) is a collegiate public research university in Durham, England, founded by an Act of Parliament in 1832 and incorporated by royal charter in 1837.

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Epiphany (holiday)

Epiphany, or Eid al-Ghitas (عيد الغِطاس), also known as "Theophany" in Eastern Christian tradition, is a Christian feast day commemorating the visit of the Magi, the baptism of Jesus, and the wedding at Cana.

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Evangelisches Gesangbuch

Evangelisches Gesangbuch (EG;, "Protestant song book") is the current hymnal of German-language congregations in Germany, Alsace and Lorraine, Austria, and Luxembourg, which was introduced from 1993 and 1996, succeeding the Evangelisches Kirchengesangbuch (EKG).

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Frederick Oakeley

Frederick Oakeley (5 September 1802 – 30 January 1880) was an English Roman Catholic convert, priest, and author.

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Friedrich Heinrich Ranke

Friedrich Heinrich Ranke (30 November 1798 – 2 September 1876) was a German Protestant theologian.

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George Frideric Handel

George Frideric (or Frederick) Handel (baptised italic,; 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-British Baroque composer well known for his operas, oratorios, anthems, concerti grossi, and organ concertos.

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Georgia Boy Choir

The Georgia Boy Choir, founded in 2009 by David White, is an American boys' choir based in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Gospel of John

The Gospel of John (translit) is the fourth of the New Testament's four canonical gospels.

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Gregorian chant

Gregorian chant is the central tradition of Western plainchant, a form of monophonic, unaccompanied sacred song in Latin (and occasionally Greek) of the Roman Catholic Church.

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Hymn

A hymn is a type of song, and partially synonymous with devotional song, specifically written for the purpose of adoration or prayer, and typically addressed to a deity or deities, or to a prominent figure or personification.

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Hymn tune

A hymn tune is the melody of a musical composition to which a hymn text is sung. O Come, All Ye Faithful and hymn tune are hymn tunes.

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Jacobitism

Jacobitism was a political movement that supported the restoration of the senior line of the House of Stuart to the British throne.

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John 1

John 1 is the first chapter in the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Holy Bible.

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John Francis Wade

John Francis Wade (1 January 1711 – 16 August 1786) was an English hymnist who is usually credited with writing and composing the hymn "Adeste Fideles" (which was translated to "O Come All Ye Faithful" in 1841 by Frederick Oakeley).

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John IV of Portugal

Dom John IV (João,; 19 March 1604 – 6 November 1656), nicknamed John the Restorer (João, o Restaurador), was the King of Portugal whose reign, lasting from 1640 until his death, began the Portuguese restoration of independence from Habsburg Spanish rule.

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John Reading (composer and organist)

John Reading (c. 1645–1692) was an English composer and organist, and father of John Reading (c. 1685 – 1764) who is remembered as an important music copyist.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Last verse harmonisation

Last verse harmonisation is a technique of hymn accompaniment used by church organists to vary the harmony of a hymn, during the last verse whilst the melody remains unchanged, though sometimes embellished.

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List of Christmas carols

This list of Christmas carols is organized by language of origin. O Come, All Ye Faithful and list of Christmas carols are Christmas carols.

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Marcos Portugal

Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal (24 March 1762 – 17 February 1830), known as Marcos Portugal, or Marco Portogallo, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian classical composer, who achieved great international fame for his operas.

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Marylebone

Marylebone (usually, also) is an area in London, England and is located in the City of Westminster.

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Mass in the Catholic Church

The Mass is the central liturgical service of the Eucharist in the Catholic Church, in which bread and wine are consecrated and become the body and blood of Christ.

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Midnight Mass

In many Western Christian traditions, Midnight Mass is the first liturgy of Christmastide that is celebrated on the night of Christmas Eve, traditionally beginning at midnight when Christmas Eve gives way to Christmas Day.

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Nine Lessons and Carols

Nine Lessons and Carols, also known as the Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols and Service of Nine Lessons and Carols, is a service of Christian worship traditionally celebrated on or near Christmas Eve in England. O Come, All Ye Faithful and Nine Lessons and Carols are Christmas carols.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.

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Plainsong

Plainsong or plainchant (calque from the French plain-chant; cantus planus) is a body of chants used in the liturgies of the Western Church.

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Sacred Harp

Sacred Harp singing is a tradition of sacred choral music that originated in New England and was later perpetuated and carried on in the American South.

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Samuel Webbe

Samuel Webbe (1740 – 25 May 1816) was an English composer.

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SATB

SATB is an initialism that describes the scoring of compositions for choirs or consorts of instruments.

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Soprano

A soprano is a type of classical female singing voice and has the highest vocal range of all voice types.

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St. Peter's Basilica

The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Basilica Sancti Petri; Basilica di San Pietro), is a church of the Italian High Renaissance located in Vatican City, an independent microstate enclaved within the city of Rome, Italy.

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Stonyhurst College

Stonyhurst College is a co-educational Catholic private school, adhering to the Jesuit tradition, on the Stonyhurst Estate, Lancashire, England.

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The English Hymnal

The English Hymnal is a hymn book which was published in 1906 for the Church of England by Oxford University Press. O Come, All Ye Faithful and the English Hymnal are English Christian hymns.

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Thomas Arne

Thomas Augustine Arne (12 March 17105 March 1778) was an English composer.

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Triple metre

Triple metre (or Am. triple meter, also known as triple time) is a musical metre characterized by a primary division of 3 beats to the bar, usually indicated by 3 (simple) or 9 (compound) in the upper figure of the time signature, with, and being the most common examples.

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See also

18th-century hymns in Latin

Catholic music

Charles Edward Stuart

Christmas carols in Latin

Hymns in The English Hymnal

Jacobite songs

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_Come,_All_Ye_Faithful

Also known as Adeste Fideles, Adeste Fidelis, Come All Ye Faithful, Dagen aer kommen, Dagen är kommen, Nun freut euch, ihr Christen, O Come All Ye Faithful, O Come All Ye Faithfull, O kommen, I trogne, O! Come All Ye Faithful, Oh Come All Ye Faithful, Oh Come Let Us Adore Him, Oh Come, All Ye Faithful, Oh, Come All Ye Faithful, Oh, Come, All Ye Faithful, Portugese Hymn, Portuguese Hymn, Venite Adoremus, Why Are We Waiting, Why Are We Waiting?.

, The English Hymnal, Thomas Arne, Triple metre.