O Come, All Ye Faithful

Attr. John Francis Wade

Written in D major, range A3 to A4

A call to come to Bethlehem: the faithful set out joyful and triumphant to greet the newborn child, and three times over the refrain asks everyone to adore him. In the 1790s it caught on at the Portuguese embassy chapel in London, which is why it was long known as the Portuguese Hymn; the piano part is the hymn harmony from the Pilgrim Hymnal (1912).