The Bells
| Song Title | The Bells (Search) |
| Composer(s): | Juliana Hall |
| Composer Underrepresented Group | Woman (Search) |
| Author(s): | Edgar Allan Poe |
| Keyword(s) & Features: | Alarum Bells; Anger; Balmy; Bells; Brazen; Clamor; Contrast; Crystalline; Danger; Death; Delight; Despair; Emergencies; Euphony; Expectation; Fear; Fire; Future; Ghouls; Groaning; Happiness; Harmony; Horror; Icy; Iron; Joy; Keeping time; Kings; Liquid; Melancholy; Monody; Moon; Night; Nightmares; Personification: Air; Personification: Bells; Personification: Night; Personification: Turtledove; Power of Sound; Rhymes; Screaming; Silver; Stars; Steeples; Swelling; Terror; Tinkling; Tintinnabulations; Tolling; Tunes; Turtledoves; Weddings |
| First Line | Hear the sledges with the bells (Search) |
| Average Duration | 20:00 (Search) |
| Year of composition | 2014 (Search) |
| Link to English Text Online | http://www.lieder.net/lieder/get_multi_text_setting.html?SettingId=138839 |
| Author's associated movements or -isms or Groups | Romanticism (Search) |
| Original Language | English (Search) |
| Score Source | https://ecspublishing.com/the-bells.html |
| Difficulty Level | College (Search) |
| Voice part suggested by composer | Soprano |
| Range: | B3 - Bb5 (Search) |
| Dedicated To | Steffi Fischer (Search) |
| Premiered By | Alexandra Porter, Brent Funderburk (Search) |
| Notes | The form of the piece follows form of the poem; namely, four sections within a single poem are reflected by four sections of music with musical bridges between sections so the entire work is performed attacca as a single unit (Search) |
| Recommended Printed Source | E. C. Schirmer, Catalog No. 8571 (Search) |
| Contributor | Juliana Hall (Search) |