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Composer: Felix Mendelssohn (1840) Copyright: Public Domain Download: Not Yet Available Story Behind the Music I was still in High School when I wrote this interesting arrangement of one of the most popular Christmas carols. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing is a beautiful piece for a small choir to sing from door to door in the community. Unfortunate for the song, though, was that I was assigned to create a Christmas song using MIDI. What better song to butcher than that which brings joy to millions? Hark! Hark! Hark! is an arrangement that was suppose to express my own frustration with those would not listen to the Word of God. I can tell others why this Word is something that will make them forever happy but they did not listen. Instead, many would go drinking in the middle of the night at parties. Instead, many would go fornicate with their peers with whom they know little about. Instead, they chose the way of darkness, the way of pain. To express this, I arranged this song in a very purposeful manner. The first part of the song is written in the vein as the original: it is very positive and calls out the name of God like the angels. As time continues the actions of those I talk to do not change and I fear for their souls. I respond to this fear with anger to God and finished this song with what I commonly felt towards God: resentment. |
 
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