Ring out, wild bells - Gounod, Charles

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⌛ Period → Romantic

◈ Genre / Form Anthems

♯ Key C minor

⁄ Time Signature 4/4

♬ Voicing → SATB

◆ Difficulty

Intermediate

↕ Range C1 – A5

¶ Language → English

Measures 90

Texture Homophonic

Parts 6

Instruments SATB, 2 Keyboards

Pages 8

CPDL # 60797

Editor Douglas Walczak

Posted 2020-10-05

License Personal

♫Pitch Ranges

SOPRANO

E-4 – G5

ALTO

G3 – E5

TENOR

E-3 – G4

BASS

G2 – E-4

Keyboard

C1 – C4

¶Lyrics / Text

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. Ring out the old, ring in the new, Ring, happy bells, across the snow: The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true. Ring out the grief that saps the mind For those that here we see no more; Ring out the feud of rich and poor, Ring in redress to all mankind. Ring out a slowly dying cause, And ancient forms of party strife; Ring in the nobler modes of life, With sweeter manners, purer laws. Ring out the want, the care, the sin, The faithless coldness of the times; Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes But ring the fuller minstrel in. Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite; Ring in the love of truth and right, Ring in the common love of good. Ring out old shapes of foul disease; Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace. Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand; Ring out the darkness of the land, Ring in the Christ that is to be.

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