Christmas Medley: Once in Royal David's City / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Hark the Herald Angels Sing

~ Recording by The Idea of North

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Official
1.8Christmas Medley: Once in Royal David's City / God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / Hark the Herald Angels Sing?:??The Idea of NorthThis ChristmasThe Idea of NorthAlbum
  • AU2012-12-21
Universal Music Group (has logo with just “Universal Music Group”)ABC 476 5169

Relationships

arranger:Naomi Crellin
recording of:1. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (traditional, no arrangement credits here) (partial, medley)
2. Once in Royal David’s City (partial, medley)
3. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Christmas carol) (partial, medley)

Related works

God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (traditional, no arrangement credits here)

lyricist and composer:[traditional] (special purpose artist)
referred to in medleys:A Majestic Christmas Theme
Jingle Bells Medley (Psalty’s Christmas Calamity)
Medley
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen / We Three Kings (order: 1)
Christmas Collage (order: 2)
Christmas Day (medley by Gustav Holst) (order: 2)
Mix 4 (The Best Xmas Party Ever!) (order: 2)
A Christmas Festival (order: 3)
Megamix 4 (It Must Be Christmas) (order: 4)
Mix Four (Greatest Ever Christmas Party Megamix) (order: 4)
Noëls pour cordes (Christmas Carols for Strings) (order: 6)
later parody versions:It’s a Fanboy Christmas
The Restroom Door Said, "Gentlemen"
later translated versions:God zegene de kinderen
Guds frid i gode vise män
later versions:God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (arr. Ian Anderson)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Nox Arcana arrangement)
Merry Gentlemen's Bounce
Sulphur Ahoy
is the basis for:A Star to Follow
Don’t Be Afraid (God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen)
Gog Rest Ye Merry Prospitians (Homestuck)
Handel’s Torch
Hark! The Merry Gentleman, op. 90
Men of Goodwill: Variations on a Christmas Carol
Paraphrase on ‘God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen’
PDX-mas Carol
Take a Break Guys
Variations on "God rest ye merry, Gentlemen"
Where Is the Comma in “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen” Supposed to Go? (RamsesThePigeon’s song based on “God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen”)
ƻԶշՉոժ Ƿզվ Օճ ƆիԻıՏեՊգՖ Ҩϫჱ (ŦĦŦ ˝Ѩ‐Ѩ‐ѺƔ˝ ü ŦĦŦ)
arrangements:Christmas Sweet: God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
Deadly Gentlemen
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Trans‐Siberian Orchestra arrangement)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (arr. Aly and AJ)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (arr. Scott Kritzer)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Ralph Carmichael instrumental arrangement)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (arr. Les Penning and Robert Reed)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (arr. Dave Stephens (Welsh guitarist))
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (arr. Moya Brennan)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Nadja version)
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Carla Bley arrangement)
God rest ye merry, gentlemen (arr. Sirett)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Mannheim Steamroller arrangement)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr. Willcocks)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Mariah Carey arrangement)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr. Geoffrey Keating)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (Willan arrangement)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr. John Høybye)
God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen (arr. Berry & Howard)
Rondo alla Natale
music quoted in:Candles and Merry Gentlemen (Homestuck)
Carolmanthetime (Homestuck)
Ghost of Marley

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Christmas carol)

additional lyricist:George Whitefield (in 1753)
lyricist:Charles Wesley (hymn writer) (in 1739)
additional composer:William H. Cummings (in 1855)
composer:Felix Mendelssohn (composer) (in 1840)
referred to in medleys:(Hark, The Herald) Angels Dream
Angels We Have Heard on High / Hark the Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful
Christmas Train (medley)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Gloria (in excelsis Deo)
Hark! The Herald Angels We Have Heard on High
Medley: O Come All Ye Faithful / Angels We Have Heard on High / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
Medley: Hark the Herald Angels Sing / O Come All Ye Faithful (order: 1)
Medley: The First Noel / Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / O Come, All Ye Faithful / We Wish You a Merry Christmas (order: 2)
The March of the Kings / Hark the Herald Angels Sing (order: 2)
Noëls pour cordes (Christmas Carols for Strings) (order: 3)
The Merry Christmas Medley: We Wish You a Merry Christmas / Angels From the Realms of Glory / Hark the Herald Angels Sing / It Came Upon a Midnight Clear (order: 3)
A Christmas Festival (order: 5)
later parody versions:Hark! The Herald Angels Rap
皆因一經過六四
later translated versions:Clywch Lu’r Nef yn Seinio’n Un
Clywch y Ddwyfol Sanctaidd Gân
Debespulks dzied apstarots (Latvian version of English "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing")
Hamau! Na Anelá
Hoor de eng'len zingen d'eer
Hoor, de engelen zingen de eer
天には栄え (Japanese version of “Hark! The Herald Angels Sing”)
新生王
later versions:Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (John Ferguson arrangement)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Die Toten Hosen arrangement)
Hark! The Herald Angels Swing
Høyr kor englar syng frå sky
is the basis for:Ghost of Christmas Past
Hark! The Merry Gentleman, op. 90
Jailhouse Angels
Paraphrase on ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’
Postlude on "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing"
Suite on Famous Christmas Carols: III. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
With One Voice
arrangements:"Bark!" The Herald Angels Sing
Enkellaulu kajahtaa (translated)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Bob Dylan arrangement)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (arr. Scott Kritzer)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Vince Guaraldi arr.)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (Gordon Jenkins arr.)
Hark the Herald Angels Sing (arr. Barry)
Hark! the herald angels sing (arr. Ledger)
Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (Sovereign Grace version)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (descant and organ arr. Philip Ledger)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (arr. Willcocks)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (arr. Paulus)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (arr. Feller)
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Mannheim Steamroller arrangement)

Once in Royal David’s City

lyricist:Cecil Frances Alexander (in 1848)
composer:Henry John Gauntlett (in 1849)
later parody versions:Once in Every Carol Service
later translated versions:Draw yn Ninas Dafydd Frenin
I Kong Davids by
I Kong Davids stad eingong
is the basis for:Once in Royal David's City (descant and organ arr. Philip Ledger)
Prelude on "Irby" ("Once in Royal David’s City")
has revision:Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Mann)
arrangements:Once in Royal David's City (arr. Ferguson)
Once in Royal David's City (arr. Wilcocks (vv. 2-3) and Mann (v. 4ff))
Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Rutter)
Once in Royal David’s City (arr. Willcocks)
music quoted in:Song for the King