Carols Of The Bells by Mykola Leontovych
The work catalogued here as Carols Of The Bells is best known as Carol of the Bells, the English-language name associated with Mykola Leontovych's choral setting of Shchedryk. Its repeating figure and bright choral motion are familiar at Christmas, but the Ukrainian original is a winter well-wishing song rather than an English holiday song. Leontovych's setting grew from a Ukrainian shchedrivka tradition, and its history spans several layers: the Ukrainian choral setting, its performances in the 1910s and 1920s, and Peter J. Wilhousky's 1936 English lyric adaptation. Those dates describe different stages of the work, not competing release dates for one pop single. The selected catalog item is a community piano arrangement. Its keyboard texture belongs to that arrangement, while the original identity remains a choral work by Leontovych.
About Carols Of The Bells
The work catalogued here as Carols Of The Bells is best known as Carol of the Bells, the English-language name associated with Mykola Leontovych's choral setting of Shchedryk. Its repeating figure and bright choral motion are familiar at Christmas, but the Ukrainian original is a winter well-wishing song rather than an English holiday song.
Leontovych's setting grew from a Ukrainian shchedrivka tradition, and its history spans several layers: the Ukrainian choral setting, its performances in the 1910s and 1920s, and Peter J. Wilhousky's 1936 English lyric adaptation. Those dates describe different stages of the work, not competing release dates for one pop single.
The selected catalog item is a community piano arrangement. Its keyboard texture belongs to that arrangement, while the original identity remains a choral work by Leontovych.