“O Come, All Ye Faithful”

1. A Christmas carol; its original Latin version is “Adeste Fideles.” It begins:

   O come, all ye faithful,

   Joyful and triumphant,

   O come ye, O come ye to Bethlehem .

Example Sentences

After the family entered the church, congregants sang “God Save the King” followed by the Christmas hymn “O Come, All Ye Faithful.”

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Willcocks’s arrangement of “O Come, All Ye Faithful” appeared in Carols for Choirs 1, published by Oxford University Press in 1961.

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Of particular acclaim in the first volume was the arrangement of “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” but not necessarily because of “The Chord.”

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But that moment in “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” he said, “goes just a bit further.”

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In addition, the progression that follows bears a striking resemblance to music by the English composer John Stainer, who used the same dramatic chord and elegant escape in his setting of “O Come, All Ye Faithful” — which concluded his Epiphany anthem “I Desired Wisdom,” published in 1876.

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