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by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849)
Translation by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898)

Hear the sledges with the bells
Language: English 
Hear the sledges with the bells --
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells --
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), no title, appears in The Bells, no. 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

  • by Michael William Balfe (1808 - 1870), "The Bells" [ voice and piano ] [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Edward Francis Fitzwilliam (1824 - 1857), "Hear the sledges with the bells", from Four Dramatic Songs [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Ann Sheppard Mounsey (1811 - 1891), as Ann Sheppard Bartholomew, "The Bells", published 1882 [ voice and piano ], from Six Songs, no. 4, Stanley Lucas, Weber and Co [sung text not yet checked]
  • by Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Sir (1874 - 1952), "Hear the sledges with the bells", published 1919 [ SSA chorus a cappella ], partson [sung text not yet checked]

The text above (or a part of it) is used in the following settings:
  • by Thomas Anderton (1836 - 1903), "The Sleighbells", published 187-? [ vocal trio of treble voices and piano ]
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  • by Frank Ahrold (b. 1931), "The Bells", published 1967 [ SATB chorus ]
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  • by Emma Lou Diemer (b. 1927), "The Bells", published 1961 [ satb chorus and piano four-hands ]
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  • by John Emeléus , "The Bells", published 1962 [ unison chorus ]
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  • by D. Ezechiels , "The Bells", published 1888, cantata
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  • by Arthur Foote (1853 - 1937), "The Bells", published 1929 [ satb chorus and piano ]
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  • by George Fox (1854 - 1902), "The Bells", published 1876 [ satb chorus and orchestra ], cantata
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  • by William Wallace Gilchrist (1846 - 1916), "The Bells", published 1913 [ SSAA chorus and piano ]
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  • by John Habash , "The Bells", published 1963 [ SATB chorus ], note: words adapted by Edna Lewis
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  • by Cuthbert Harris (1870 - 1932), "Silver Sleigh Bells", published 1922 [ SSA trio or SATB chorus ]
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  • by H. Stanley Hawley (1867 - 1916), "The Bells", published 1894 [ reciter with piano ]
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  • by Joseph Holbrooke (1878 - 1958), "The Bells", op. 50a, published 1906 [ chorus and orchestra ], note: also set in a German translation by Alice Klengel
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  • by Fedor Kebalin , "The Bells", published 1966, from Canticle of Seasons
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  • by Hazel Gertrude Kinscella (1893 - 1960), "The Bells", published 1938 [ SSA chorus and piano ]
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  • by Halfdan Kjerulf (1815 - 1868), "The Bells"
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  • by Henry Lahee (1826 - 1912), "The Bells", op. 128 no. 1, published 1937 [ SSA chorus and piano ], note: arranged by Purcell J. Mansfield
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  • by F. Lancelott , "The Bells", published 1957, cantata
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  • by Franco Leoni (1864 - 1949), "The Bells", published 1908 [ vocal scene for baritone or contralto and orchestra ]
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  • by Clarence Lucas (1866 - 1947), "The Bells", op. 56, published 1913 [ madrigal: satb chorus a cappella ]
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  • by Nicola Aloysius Montani (1880 - 1948), "The Bells", published 1917 [ soprano, alto, SSA chorus, and piano or orchestra ], cantata
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  • by Phil Ochs (1940 - 1976), "The Bells", published 1967 [ satb chorus and piano ], arranged by Herbert Haufrecht
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  • by C. Alexander Peloquin , "The Bells", published 1964 [ mixed chorus, 2 pianos, 2 contrabasses, percussion ]
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  • by Franz Petersilea (d. 1878), "The Bells"
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  • by Alfred Plumpton , "The Bells", published 1867
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  • by Sam Raphling (b. 1910), "The Bells", published 1958 [ 6-part mixed chorus a cappella ]
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  • by Hugh Stevenson Roberton, Sir (1874 - 1952), "The Sledge Bells", published 1909 [ partsong: satb chorus a cappella ]
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  • by Godfrey Sampson (flourished 1930), "The Bells", published 1946
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  • by Arsene Siegel (b. 1897), "The Iron Bells", published 1945 [ medium voice and piano ]
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  • by David E. Stone (b. 1922), "Winter (The Bells)", published 1980 [ SSA chorus ], from Five Songs for Female Voices and Piano
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  • by Harold Hinchcliffe Sykes , "The Bells" [ 2-part chorus of treble voices in canon ]
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  • by George Wald , "The Bells", published 1942 [ satb chorus a cappella ]
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  • by Michael White (b. 1931), "The Silver Bells", published 1961 [ mixed chorus a cappella ]
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  • by Philip George Wilkinson (b. 1929), "The Bells", published 1954 [ chorus ], partsong
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  • by Harry Robert Wilson (1901 - 1968), "The Bells", published 1968
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  • by Juliana Hall (b. 1958), "The bells", 2015 [ soprano and piano ]
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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

  • Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942) , no title, appears in Колокольчики и колокола (Kolokol'chiki i kolokola), no. 1 [an adaptation] ; composed by Vladimir Mitrofanovich Ivanov-Korsunsky, as Vladimir Mitrofanovich Korsunsky, Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov.
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Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

  • FRE French (Français) (Stéphane Mallarmé) , no title, appears in Les cloches, no. 1


Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]

This text was added to the website: 2007-12-14
Line count: 14
Word count: 77

Entendez les traîneaux à cloches
Language: French (Français)  after the English 
Entendez les traîneaux à cloches -- 
cloches d'argent ! 
Quel monde d'amusement annonce leur mélodie ! 
Comme elle tinte, tinte, tinte, 
dans le glacial air de nuit ! 
Tandis que les astres qui étincellent 
sur tout le ciel semblent cligner, 
avec cristalline délice, de l'œil : 
allant, elle d'accord (d'accord, d'accord) 
en une sorte de rythme runique, 
avec la « tintinnabulisation » qui surgit si musicalement 
des cloches (des cloches, cloches, cloches, 
cloches, cloches, cloches) : 
du cliquetis et du tintement des cloches.

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Text Authorship:

  • by Stéphane Mallarmé (1842 - 1898), no title, appears in Les cloches, no. 1 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]

Based on:

  • a text in English by Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), no title, appears in The Bells, no. 1
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Musical settings (art songs, Lieder, mélodies, (etc.), choral pieces, and other vocal works set to this text), listed by composer (not necessarily exhaustive):

    [ None yet in the database ]


Researcher for this page: Guy Laffaille [Guest Editor]

This text was added to the website: 2011-01-06
Line count: 14
Word count: 77

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