Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening (round)
The evening-bells round in three parts, as a Boston school music reader of 1896 printed it, for 2 to 4 singers: everyone sings the same tune three times, entering six bars apart (tenor and bass an octave lower), and its last line's "ding, dong" rings under the other two.
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The first verse
Words: English words anonymous (printed 1896), after the German round "O wie wohl ist mir am Abend"Tune: German round (O wie wohl ist mir am Abend), a folk round after a canon by Karl Friedrich Schulz (died 1850)
O how lovely is the evening,is the evening,
About Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening (round)
Oh, How Lovely Is the Evening is a round about evening bells. It comes from a German round, "O wie wohl ist mir am Abend", which German songbooks call a folk round after a canon by Karl Friedrich Schulz. Our round is read from the First Reader of The Educational Music Course, a Boston school music book of 1896, which prints it as a round in three parts, a whole tone lower, in E-flat. Its third line is the bells themselves, "Ding, dong" on one low note. Here it is for 2 to 4 singers: everyone sings it three times, entering six bars apart, with the tenor and bass an octave lower.
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