Ring, Happy Bells

Composer: 
Akmal Parwez
Date Completed: 
December 2008
Premiere Date: 
December 31, 2008
Premiering Conductor: 
Akmal Parwez
Premiering Ensemble: 
Sunnyside Chamber Players
Premiere Venue: 
Sunnyside Music Society, Sunnyside, NY
Composer Notes: 

  

Duration: 
4'33"
Language: 
English
Choral Voicing: 
SATB
Divisi: 
Bass (minimal)
Solo requirement: 
N/A
Text Source: 
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Text: 

Ring out the old,
Ring in the new,
Ring happy bells,
across the snow.
The year is going,let him go;
Ring happy bells,
across the snow.
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.

Significant Seasons or Days: 
Rosh HaShanah
Other
Significant Seasons or Days (other): 
New Year's Day
Keyboard accompaniment: 
N/A
Instrumental Ensemble: 
Other
Instrumental Ensemble (other): 
Vibraphone & String Quartet
Instruments: 
Violin
Instruments: 
Viola
Instruments: 
Cello
Instruments: 
Other
Instruments (other): 
Violin II; Vibraphone
Publisher: 
Tamarind Tones Music
Publication Number: 
TTM-AP25
Contact for performance materials: 

Score, Tapes & CD’s available from: 
Tamarind Tones Music 
P.O. Box 6568 
Fresh Meadows NY 11365-6568 
E-Mail: TamarindTonesMusic@hotmail.com

Scoring notation: 
Standard notation
Difficulty Level: 
3