Tune: WILD BELLS

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WILD BELLS

Composer: Henry Lahee
Published in 8 hymnals

Audio files: MIDI

Composer: Henry Lahee

Born: April 11, 1826, Chelsea, London, England. Died: April 29, 1912, London, England. Lahee studied under John Goss and William Sterndale Bennett. He played the organ at several churches, including Holy Trinity Church, Brompton (1847-74). He won prizes for his compositions in Bristol, Manchester, Glasgow, and London, and set to music poems by Edgar Allen Poe ("The Bells"), Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ("Building of the Ship") and Alfred Tennyson ("Sleeping Beauty"). His works include: Metrical Psalter, with William Irons, 1855 Famous Singers of Today and Yesterday, 1898 One Hundred Hymn Tunes Sources: Frost, p. 680 CS Concordance, pp. 246-47 Nutter, p. 460 --www.hymntime.com/tch Go to person page >

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Tune Information

Title:	WILD BELLS
Composer:	Henry Lahee
Meter:	8.8.8.8 D
Incipit:	11176 54321 17654
Key:	F Major
Copyright:	Public Domain

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Ring Out, Wild Bells

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

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Piano Solo

Nearer, My God, to Thee: Moments of Meditation for Solo Piano
Composer/Editor Shelley Helzerman Houser
Published By: The FJH Music Company, Inc. (2005) pp. 24

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