Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells

Author: Marion Franklin Ham

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First Line: Ring, O ring, ye Christmas bells
Author: Marion Franklin Ham

Tune

MENDELSSOHN

The tune is from the second chorus of Felix Mendelssohn's (PHH 279) Festgesang (Op. 68) for male voices and brass; it was first performed in 1840 at the Gutenberg Festival in Leipzig, a festival celebrating the anniversary of Gutenberg's invention of the printing press. Mendelssohn's tune is similar…

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Instances

Instances (2)TextImageAudioScore
Hymns of the Spirit for Use in the Free Churches of America #d355
The Beacon Song and Service book #215