{"id":22,"date":"2011-05-04T21:20:33","date_gmt":"2011-05-05T04:20:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/product\/bells-of-christmas\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T13:26:40","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T20:26:40","slug":"bells-of-christmas","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/product\/bells-of-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Bells of Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The popular Christmas song, <em>Ukrainian Bell Carol,<\/em> was adapted by the Ukrainian composer, Mykola Leontovych, from a Ukrainian folk song.\u00a0 It premiered in the United States in 1922 at Carnegie Hall to an enthusiastic audience.\u00a0 The words for the Christmas song, <em>I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day, <\/em>are based on a poem by Longfellow, where he tells of his despair on hearing the Christmas Bells during the Civil War where &#8220;hate is strong,&#8221;\u00a0 but ends with the bells carrying to him a message of renewed hope for peace among men.\u00a0 Longfellow&#8217;s poem was set to music in 1872 by the English organist, John Baptiste Calkin.\u00a0 In this\u00a0 <em>Bells of Christmas <\/em>arrangement, Harp 1 and Harp 2 have several lever or pedal changes that are not difficult, while Harp 3 does not have any chromatic changes.\u00a0 Performance time for <em>Bells of Christmas<\/em> is about three minutes.<\/p>\n<p>The arrangement comes with separate copies for First Harp, Second Harp, and Third Harp and an Ensemble Copy showing the three parts together.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Christmas Songs, <em>Ukrainian Bell Carol<\/em>\u00a0and <em>I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day<\/em>, are arranged by Shari Pack for three lever harps or three pedal harps.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":537,"template":"","meta":[],"product_cat":[17,19],"product_tag":[30],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/22"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paxharpmusic.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}