Memory Bells (Shilo Shaffer Myers)

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• (Posted 2023-11-21)  CPDL #77472:    Version 1:   Version 2:  

Editor: David Anderson (submitted 2023-11-21).   Score information: Letter, 12 pages, 461 kB   Copyright: Personal

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General Information

Title: Memory Bells
Composer: Shilo Shaffer Myers
Lyricist:
Number of voices: 4vv   Voicing: SATB
Genre: Secular, Partsong

Language: English
Instruments: A cappella

First published: 1887 W. W. Whitney
    2nd published: 1890 S. Brainard’s Sons Co.
Description: This little part-song appears in two versions. The first in 1887 published by W. W. Whitney and, second, in 1890 as a “New Arrangement” published by S. Brainard’s Sons Co. The first publication included many more expression markings, as included in this edition. Performers certainly may apply those expressions in the second version.

Original text and translations

English text

Ding dong bell.
Memory bells are ringing,
Will you tell me what they say?
Do you hear the silvery chiming?
Do you hear the mellow rhyming?
Do you hear the dear, sweet story
Of your childhood’s far off glory?
They are sweetly tolling.
Tender, holy,
Sad and lowly,
Hear the echoes die away.
Ding dong bell.