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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.

Translation(s): FRE RUS

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Authorship

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

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 against a primary source]
by Edward Francis Fitzwilliam (1824 - 1857), "Hear the sledges with the bells", from Four Dramatic Songs [ sung text not yet checked against a primary source]
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 against a primary source]

This text (or a part of it) is used in a work

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

Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in Russian (Русский), a translation by Konstantin Dmitrevich Bal'mont (1867 - 1942) , from Kolokol'chiki i kolokola [an adaptation] ENG FRE ; composed by Sergei Vasil'yevich Rachmaninov.

Other available translations, adaptations or excerpts, and transliterations (if applicable):

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

Text added to the website: 2007-12-14 00:00:00.

Last modified: 2014-06-16 10:02:32

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