As an organ is to a piano, so is a carillon to an ordinary set of bells. Numbering at least 24 (covering two octaves), the bells of a carillon are tuned with the sharps & flats of the chromatic scale, ...
On Christmas day in the morning, bellringers spit on their hands; they catch hold of the ropes that go up into rimed steeples. “Ding dong,” goes the first faint and shaken bell; swallows leap out of ...
Composed for orchestra, Song of the Bells was completed for recording by the composer on September 8, 1953, in analog mono sound, which is where it was first performed. It is exactly 3 minutes long.