SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - SATB voice parts only (.pc).SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - Flute (.pc).SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - with flute (.pc).SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - use with flute (.pc).SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - SATB voice parts only (.pc).SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - Flute (.pc).SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - with flute.SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - use with flute.SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - SATB voice parts only.SATB 2 (Eb-E): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - Flute.SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - with flute.SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - use with flute.SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - SATB voice parts only.SATB 1 (D-Eb): While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night - Flute.If you need other keys, you are welcome to transpose it using the Personal Composer Demo. The scores labeled SATB 1 and SATB 2 in different keys, but otherwise identical. The harmonies she sings are adapted from the SATB score.
Obviously you’ll need two voices for a live presentation. Heather’s demo for this song is of the “don’t try this at home” variety–or rather, don’t try this alone. At a quick tempo, with a flute intro and obbligato for the last verse, it passed the “fun” test: my husband whistled it for a week. So I played around with it, and found that it readily fell into 6/8 meter. As Marianne Dashwood so aptly put it, “…there is a something wanting.” It has great words (in what other song do you get to sing “seraph” and “forthwith” in the same line?) and the melody suits the lyrics well, but… ho hum. One Christmas as our congregation sang “While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks by Night,” I wondered why this long-familiar carol had never been one of my favorites. I’m thankful for a Savior who knows his skittish sheep well, who laid his life all the way down in the hay, placing himself between us and every danger.Traditional tune with lyrics by Nahum Tate.Īrrangement and additional lyrics by Sally DeFord. As a pastor, I’m grateful for this reminder that shepherds are also part of the flock. He showed them goodness and mercy that would no doubt stay with them all the days of their life. He restored their souls with a message of hope and belonging-a message that turned out exactly “as they had been told.” He filled their cup to overflowing with praise “for all the things they had heard and seen.” He not only met their need he anointed their heads with the oil of joy. He showed he was with them in the most humble and relatable of ways: as a baby in a manger. He quieted their souls through the angel’s words: “Do not be afraid.” He led them on paths of righteousness straight to the manger. God supplied the shepherds’ need-a need they may not have even articulated. That first Christmas, the Lord revealed himself as the Good Shepherd in the story, caring for the shepherds themselves as part of his own flock.Ĭonsider how much God’s attention to the shepherds resembles David’s description of God as a shepherd in Psalm 23.
So the shepherds placed themselves in harm’s way, protecting their sheep with their very lives.īut in Luke’s account of Jesus’ birth, the shepherds also turn out to be sheep. It was when thieves and predators posed the greatest threat. In Luke 2, the shepherds are “keeping watch over their flocks at night”-highlighting the very real dangers of darkness. It’s a striking image of what shepherding is all about. He covered himself entirely with straw so visitors to the living Nativity were none the wiser. To console her, her father stepped into the scene and lay down on the ground between her and the beasts, forming a human barricade so that his daughter felt secure. She cried hysterically, wanting no part of the whole thing. While it was an adorable idea, the reality of having live animals stand next to a three-year-old proved terrifying for her. When my wife, Karin, was in preschool, she played a miniature Mary in a living Nativity scene. As Isaiah’s prophecy foretold, he is “God with us.” Jesus is Immanuel. Jesus-the Mighty God, the Prince of Peace, the Light of the World-became flesh and dwelt among us. As we journey through the events surrounding the Nativity, we contemplate the Incarnation.
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