Church bell at night | Sweet little bell

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author

Translation © by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980)

Clocán binn

Language: Irish (Gaelic)

Clocán binn 
benar i n-aidchi gaíthe 
ba ferr lim dul ina dáil 
indás i n-dáil mná baíthe.

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Manuscript source: Trinity College, Dublin: MS. 1308 (H. 2. 12, no. 8): page 13b line 13. Source used by translators is: Irische Texte mit Übersetzungen und Wörterbuch, Dritte Serie, 1. Heft, journal article by Rudolf Thurneysen, ed. by Whitley Stokes and Ernst Windisch. Leipzig, S. Hirzel, 1891, page 16, example no. 40.

Text Authorship:

by Anonymous / Unidentified Author ( 12^th century ) [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):

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Settings in other languages, adaptations, or excerpts:

Also set in English, a translation by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980) , appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright © FRE ; composed by Samuel Barber.

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

ENG English (Kuno Meyer) , "The church bell in the night"

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This text was added to the website: 2016-08-15
Line count: 4
Word count: 17

Church bell at night

Language: English after the Irish (Gaelic)

Our translations: FRE

Sweet little bell
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Text Authorship:

by Howard Mumford Jones (1892 - 1980), appears in The Romanesque Lyric: Studies in its Background and Development from Petronius to the Cambridge Songs 50-1050, first published 1928, copyright © [author's text not yet checked against a primary source]

Based on:

a text in Irish (Gaelic) by Anonymous/Unidentified Artist
- Go to the text page.

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

by Samuel Barber (1910 - 1981), "Church bell at night", op. 29 no. 2 (1953), published 1954 [voice and piano], from Hermit songs, no. 2. [
text verified 1 time
]

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This text was added to the website: 2004-01-18
Line count: 4
Word count: 23