Carol of the Bells

What you get, immediately after purchase
📄 The sheet music as a PDF, printable and readable on a tablet
🎧 The MP3 audio recording, to learn the piece by ear
✉️ A download link by email, with no account to create

This score is 2 pages long.

"Carol of the Bells" was born in Ukraine: composer Mykola Leontovych built it in the early 20th century on "Shchedryk", a very short folk New Year's well-wishing song in which a swallow comes to announce a prosperous year to a family. First performed in Kyiv in 1916 in its choral version, it travelled the world with the Ukrainian National Chorus, all the way to Carnegie Hall in 1922. In 1936 Peter J. Wilhousky gave it English words that turned it into a Christmas carol, since taken up by countless choirs, orchestras and films. Its four-note motif, repeated like a bell that never stops ringing, sounds natural on the piano. Just the thing to announce the holidays before the tree is even lit.