@@cralnejnes1a186 there are several different metrics. All things considered, this is relatively heavy. Not compared to Demolisher by Slaughter to Prevail though. Which is one of my current favorites. Everythings relative, and thats okay.
@@HEAVY_CREAM in that case I agree and if I offended you I didn't intend to I just thought that someone that listens to powerful music wouldn't think much of music like this but I guess I didn't think about all things to consider
This feels like something you would listen to while eating a Christmas feast with your family, but it's in a centuries old gothic castle in Transylvania. I like it!
This song feels so Christmassy to me but in the least commercial way. I picture a cold dark winter's night and I picture the wind whipping snow around and I picture People cold in their homes and their fireplaces blowing out and I picture People searching in the darkness for a candlelight. This is by far my favorite Christmas song it always gives me goosebumps throughout my whole entire body. This is a traditional Christmas song if I ever heard one
I absolutely, totally and completely agree to every line in your comment. It's crazy that same image I have about this song when I listen to it, Cold Wintry Snowy Christmas/Eve Night, Fireplace, A Well-lit Tree! Beautiful in every sense.
And then suddenly, with a big whooosh, all the candles and fireplaces in every house and the lanterns on every street light up and the darkness is gone.
Pug Mommy : I agree ! Based on an old Ukrainian folk song, the ORIGINAL lyrics describes a swallow ~ a herald of Spring ~ flying into a household to proclaim the plentiful & lucky year that the family will have with the coming of Spring . The folk song, believed to have magical powers, was sung in many Ukrainian villages on the night of Jan. 13 ~ New Year's Eve on the Julian calendar ~ usually by adolescent girls going house to house in celebration of the new year. In Ukraine, the song is STILL sung on THAT night ~ January 13 . The melody was arranged in 1904 by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych ( 1877~1921 ) & titled " Shchedryk ", a Ukrainian word which means " bountiful ". Throughout the composition Leontovych used a four note motif as an ostinato which was taken from an ancient pagan Ukrainian New Year's chant . When American choir director & arranger Peter Wilhousky ( 1902~1978 ) heard Leontovych's choral work, it reminded him of ringing bells , so he wrote NEW lyrics to convey that imagery . He copyrighted & published the new lyrics in 1936, along with the title "Carol of the Bells", which was harmonious with the old Slavic legend that at midnight on the evening Jesus was born all the bells on Earth started to ring of their own accord in his honor. Since then the song has become a popular Christmas carol , especially in the US & Canada where it is also known as " Ukrainian Bell Carol ". During the night of January 22~23, 1921, Mykola Leontovych, ( recognized worldwide today ) , was murdered by a soviet agent for his pro Ukrainian independence views ( many of Ukraine's creative genius & intelligentsia were murdered for the same reason ) . By the way , I'm of Ukrainian descent . Cheers from Vancouver, B. C. , Canada ! : )
I feel like this music can be a background of some fight/epic scene and lyrics are.. i don’t know how to call it but it’s gives a vibe of some old traditions or something like that. And those two mixed are so good in giving THAT feeling of Christmas that I can’t even explain- ..also I’m kinda proud of my country for creating a song which is now remade into this It’s 1 AM why am I writing some random comments on youtube
I sang this as a part of a choir. I was a very deep bass, paired with one other guy. Our job was to contrast the Soprano and Alto lines, and it was incredible. Our instructor had them bouncing lines between each other trying to "create the stage" (as she put it) for a specific venue that was very open and prone to echo, and it was a true "trust the process" ordeal. During actual performance, with the acoustics, it was the most impressive performance I was ever a part of. I'd give anything to go back in time and spectate our work that day.
@@SainttGee444 what are you saying it's about family and friends togetherness. You clearly haven't spent a Christmas Eve in a Catholic church, it's like all sins are actually washed of 🥰
This song makes me feel like an "Ancient soul" and these eerie vibes are coming back through centuries.... relieving thousands of years in a 2 min song
Hark how the bells Sweet silver bells All seem to say Throw cares away Christmas is here Bringing good cheer To young and old Meek and the bold Ding, dong, ding, dong That is their song With joyful ring All caroling One seems to hear Words of good cheer From everywhere Filling the air Ding dong ding dong ding Oh how they pound Raising the sound O'er hill and dale Telling their tale Gaily they ring While people sing Songs of good cheer Christmas is here Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas Hark how the bells Sweet silver bells All seem to say Throw cares away Christmas is here Bringing good cheer To young and old Meek and the bold Ding, dong, ding, dong That is their song With joyful ring All caroling One seems to hear Words of good cheer From everywhere Filling the air Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas On on they send On without end Their joyful tone to every home Ding dong ding dong ding Ding dong ding dong ding Christmas is here Bringing good cheer To young and old Meek and the bold Ding dong ding dong ding That is their song With joyful ring Ding dong ding dong ding Elisa this is the song of Carol of the Bells lyrics share it in the group?
This sounds like a song that would play in the background in a medieval major battle during a siege. Greetings, we are going to conquer your entire kingdom but first lets sing a song about the goodness of mankind.
Actually, it’s a New Year Ukrainian song which is supposed to be sung a cappella. It’s very light and joyful and does not sound like a battle song at all.
@@94beatrice Indeed, the song is currently sung on the eve of the Julian New Year (January 13). (which is my birthday, and that might be the explanation why I became so obsessed with this song...I have listened to it about a hundred times)
The word you are searching for is Eldrich. As in the Middle English word elfriche, meaning “fairyland.” (The two components of elfriche-“elf” and “riche”-come from the Old English words ælf, “elf,” and rīce, “kingdom.” Meaning the faes shaded by nature are gazing at you
Ukrainian schedrivka by M. Leontovych always magical. Щедрик, щедрик, щедрівочка, Прилетіла ластівочка, Стала собі щебетати... With Love from Ukraine💓💓
One of my all-time favorites (and love the pretzels!) The carol melody was adapted by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych for the Kiev University choir in 1914 or 1916; the English lyrics are by Peter J. Wilhousky (copyright 1936). The song is based on the Ukrainian folk chant "Shchedryk," welcoming the arrival of spring - a swallow flies into people's houses telling them about the good luck and abundance they can expect. (There is also a recording of the Ukranian version by a choir based in Vilnius, Lithuania, here on youtube.) The Ukrainian National Chorus premiered it in the US at a sold-out Carnegie Hall in October 1921. In the Great Depression, Wilhousky was head of the NBC Symphony Orchestra and popularized the song, which reminded him of hand bells, by having it played on the air with his lyrics. The striking melody is based on a four-note ostinato.
Ukrainian Bell Carol is the original song by Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych who used a four note motif as an ostinato which was used from an ancient pagan Ukrainian New Year's chant called "Shchedryk" meaning the Generous One.
Mr.Machico instructed and inspired our Chorus for 12 years at RICHLAND HIGH SCHOOL in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania throughout the 1960s and as a result we were renowned for our expertise and professionalism ! We were often invited to perform at other schools and public venues in the Pittsburgh area. Thanks Mr.Machico for your excellent instruction!
This is the absolute best part about Christmas, hearing this. This my favorite traditional Christmas song. It’s absolute genius. I’m 36 yrs old now and I still get chills when I hear this. It’s just an indescribable feeling of warmth and love I feel. This song is so sophisticated to me.
This is the only Christmas song I can listen to without wanting to pull my hair out. I wish stores played this more often during Christmas. It's got a darker tone to it which I love.
That may be because it was not originally a Christmas song. It was a Ukrainian folk song about spring that was adopted into English Christmas traditions.
I love this. It itches a brain itch I never knew I had. Most carols are all jolly and cheerful, whereas this one gives eerie vibes of the olden days at Christmas, people cold in their homes getting warmth from the fire or eating roast chicken spending time with their family. It is unlike any Carol I've heard and I love so much that im listening to it in june
As someone who doesn't celebrate Christmas culturally, this is one of the few carols I enjoy listening to of my own volition (as opposed to everything I have to hear ad nauseum in every commercial establishment I visit like I'm trapped in some dystopian nightmare that lasts the whole of December). I suppose it helps that this one has more of an orchestral quality, and the crescendo is quite pleasing to listen to in a mood that isn't just happy-go-lucky cheerful that most other carols seem to embody.
I don't know how to explain that this is one of the only christmas songs that reminds me christmas also has to do with jesus and biblical like figures, the tune and lyrics put together just gives me chills💖
this is the single most aggressive Christmas song ever (edit: god the replies turned into a warzone, don't go down there, all I did was commentate on how the song sounded)
@I want to burn the world well- eeehhh... britain and england are the same thing, for one thing, and also, did you really need to voice your opinions on my country for no reason here?
@@pureteddybear_ this song is really old, coming from pagan times. However, with Christianity it has changed its meaning, but still was remaining to be the traditional Ukrainian song. In last century, after centuries of oppression towards Ukrainians, we tried to build AGAIN our independence. So, our ancestors wanted to show that we a separate nation, we are not stupid and uneducated “farmers”. One of the leaders, I mean of those times, wrote the music to this song and started performing. Then you know, too many events happened here, in the modern territory of Ukraine. When soviets came, they needed to erase all of the sign of having nations (so, please, stop calling us brothers. We had never been). Being Ukrainian meant being stupid. We were a threat to that regime. Consequently, the compositor was killed in his house… His death was a “mystery”, but we all of understand which kind of mystery it was. It happened in 1921. Now, in 2024 ruzzland is still not getting calm about the fact that we exist. Pokrovsk believed to be a city, where this Shchedryk was given a world fame, here preliminary compositor made this masterpiece. Now, this city is being destroyed by terroristic state.. Btw, this city is located in Donetsk oblast. So, no, we are historically Ukrainians, not that stupid pig nation.
This is my absolute favorite Christmas song ever. This version is right at the top as well. Whenever I hear this it signifies Christmas. Merry Christmas to all!
Hark how the bells Sweet silver bells All seem to say Throw cares away Christmas is here Bringing good cheer To young and old Meek and the bold Ding-dong, ding-dong That is the song With joyful ring All caroling (Oh, oh, ah) One seems to hear Words of good cheer From everywhere (From everywhere) Filling the air Oh, how they pound (Oh, how they pound) Raising their sound O'er hill and dale Telling their tale Gaily they ring While people sing songs of good cheer Christmas is here Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas On on they send On without end Their joyful tone To every home Ah, ah, ah Ding-dong, ding-dong Ding-dong, ding-dong Hark how the bells (Hark how the bells) Sweet silver bells All seem to say (All seem to say) Throw cares away (We…
This song will always be my favorite christmas tune. Such a pity it never gets aired on the radio. But no, on the radio its only pop-style Christmas music...
Yeah dude, like the song, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey, it’s only a Christmas love song, like what the hell dude, I already hear it enough at my store, so I don’t need to hear it everywhere else.
Easily my favorite Christmas carol of all time, and probably one of my favorite Christmas songs in general. It's beautiful, haunting and cheerful all in one.
This is from an ancient pre-Christian Ukrainian folk song that celebrated the arrival of spring. In all cases beautiful and filled with hope for humanity. Slava Ukraini!!!
Hands down this will always be the greatest Christmas song ever. I can listen to it in December, April, August. It doesn't matter to me. And all versions. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a banger.
I wasn't raised celebrating Christmas but I want my future children to have the best and most meaningful Christmas memories. I guess I'll have to do some memorizing of the classics and give them the earthy vibes by singing these to them. Excited and nervous because it seems that is are absolute gold just digging into this one specific area of Christianity.
this song makes me feel like it's a cold Christmas eve and you're in a battle with yourself to turn around from the family you just left. You constantly looking back towards them opening their gifts, putting out milk and cookies, tears rolling down your eyes as you shiver and shake from the cold... you finally turn away and walk away from it, holding onto your heart as you leave the family you just grew with to make you happy as you aren't happy in this household.
@Valentina Fariello Dies Irae was what this song was based on. If you didn't know, it is a 13th-century death chant for funerals. Vox has a great video about it.
Love this song! It sets the stage to start decorating quickly before Christmas comes and goes! This is why I love how many of us are starting decorating in November bc yeah. As we get older we really want to engage in the holiday and gather around so yes GO QUICKLY! Get those presents! Put up that tree of lights and memorable ornaments. Save that money before Black Friday hit! So that in Dec it’s nothing but chillaxing with family friends and your church family home with Christmas movies, hot cocoa and board games 🫶🏼 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!
This one just takes me back to the church scene of home alone 1.. that was my introduction to this brilliant piece as a preteen two decades ago! Wow.. continues to have such an impact! ✨️✨️
@@Bythehandof... Thank you for responding so quickly. I absolutely love Carol of the Bells and it is one of my favorite Christmas classics. I’m not sure that I’ll ever understand the “creepy” aspect that you and others in the comments are sharing, but I most definitely respect your opinion of the song and wish you a Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas! 🔔🎄🎁
My favourite Christmas song. Its like its the only that takes the holiday seriously It always felt like this song was about trying to remind depressed, unspirited people about the meaning of Christmas
I love this slower version, with only half of a verse on screen for a decent amount of time. Some versions are very fast with a whole verse on the screen for just a few seconds, then on to the next. Thank you.
These kids make fun about boy scouts back in the day. We would sing Christmas carols and do can drives for the church. We hated doing it it but people loved it.😊
I normally don't listen to chirstmas music earlier than November But I will listen to listen to this all year long this song brings a sense of hospitality Also found this song from home alone
Whoever is reading this you will be rich and successful in life And God will bless you.If you are reading this, don't forget, I'm wishing you all the best.
Started rehearsing this song for the orchestra performance I'm playing this year's Christmas, and found out about this song. This was a week ago, and I just can't stop listening to this somebody help me.
I’m singing this in choir, when she played the first verse one the piano I yelled, “that’s the Christmas song that’s always on the radio that no one knows the words to!”
Quick reminder that the most famous Christmas carol is not a Christmas song. Written by a Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych, it was based on the original Ukrainian folk song associated with the coming New Year (which was in April in pre-Christian Ukraine). Called „Schedryk“ („bountiful“) it was first introduced to the US audience in 1919 at a concert in Carnegie Hall. Originally sung a cappella it was rearranged for orchestra, got Christmas lyrics & became famous as carol of the bells.
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When you're staying up late waiting for Santa and his hp bar appears
Lmao
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Lol! This makes me think of Sword Art Online and now I'm also sad...
bahahah Very nice!
More like krampus
I know it’s a Christmas song but like, I’d listen to this anytime anywhere tbh.
It's February 26th and i'm listening to it, i love christmas music.
And here I am in mid-June. You're not alone, mate! ^^
EXACTLY
ghøstly Carol of the Bells is NOT a xmas song
You read my mind *ghøstly*
I'm a metalhead and I stand by my assertion that this song is heavy.
as good as any Sepultura track
Totally agree
This? Heavy? And you're a metalhead? Wow
@@cralnejnes1a186 there are several different metrics. All things considered, this is relatively heavy. Not compared to Demolisher by Slaughter to Prevail though. Which is one of my current favorites. Everythings relative, and thats okay.
@@HEAVY_CREAM in that case I agree and if I offended you I didn't intend to I just thought that someone that listens to powerful music wouldn't think much of music like this but I guess I didn't think about all things to consider
This feels like something you would listen to while eating a Christmas feast with your family, but it's in a centuries old gothic castle in Transylvania. I like it!
No, actually written in 1916 by a Ukrainian.
Thats castlevania😂
Fear not, dracula is a.good vampire
Then this song would not be in English, although I see what you mean.
What’s Transylvania????
@@Kshitijmandal place in romania with lots of history and where the guy who inspired dracula is from
This song feels so Christmassy to me but in the least commercial way. I picture a cold dark winter's night and I picture the wind whipping snow around and I picture People cold in their homes and their fireplaces blowing out and I picture People searching in the darkness for a candlelight. This is by far my favorite Christmas song it always gives me goosebumps throughout my whole entire body. This is a traditional Christmas song if I ever heard one
Yes, same 🤗
I absolutely, totally and completely agree to every line in your comment. It's crazy that same image I have about this song when I listen to it, Cold Wintry Snowy Christmas/Eve Night, Fireplace, A Well-lit Tree! Beautiful in every sense.
Yeah. Its so bone-chilling. This is on my favorite Christmas songs
And then suddenly, with a big whooosh, all the candles and fireplaces in every house and the lanterns on every street light up and the darkness is gone.
Christmas is almost here 🎄
I feel like this song isn't respected enough
Exactly! I feel the same. Love this and can listen anywhere anytime, not only at christmas time. Perfect song with lot of great covers. Just love it.
Yay Xmas is almost here! I love this song (this is probably one of the best songs)
Not like my class played carol of the bells for a program
💗💖💛𝓟𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓭𝓸𝓽 𝓵𝓾𝓿 💜💞💕
Pug Mommy : I agree ! Based on an old Ukrainian folk song, the ORIGINAL lyrics describes a swallow ~ a herald of Spring ~ flying into a household to proclaim the plentiful & lucky year that the family will have with the coming of Spring .
The folk song, believed to have magical powers, was sung in many Ukrainian villages on the night of Jan. 13 ~ New Year's Eve on the Julian calendar ~ usually by adolescent girls going house to house in celebration of the new year. In Ukraine, the song is STILL sung on THAT night ~ January 13 .
The melody was arranged in 1904 by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych ( 1877~1921 ) & titled " Shchedryk ", a Ukrainian word which means " bountiful ". Throughout the composition Leontovych used a four note motif as an ostinato which was taken from an ancient pagan Ukrainian New Year's chant .
When American choir director & arranger Peter Wilhousky ( 1902~1978 ) heard Leontovych's choral work, it reminded him of ringing bells , so he wrote NEW lyrics to convey that imagery . He copyrighted & published the new lyrics in 1936, along with the title "Carol of the Bells", which was harmonious with the old Slavic legend that at midnight on the evening Jesus was born all the bells on Earth started to ring of their own accord in his honor. Since then the song has become a popular Christmas carol , especially in the US & Canada where it is also known as " Ukrainian Bell Carol ".
During the night of January 22~23, 1921, Mykola Leontovych, ( recognized worldwide today ) , was murdered by a soviet agent for his pro Ukrainian independence views ( many of Ukraine's creative genius & intelligentsia were murdered for the same reason ) .
By the way , I'm of Ukrainian descent . Cheers from Vancouver, B. C. , Canada ! : )
I like how the lyrics and melody give completely different vibes, this song is chaotic in the best way possible
I feel like this music can be a background of some fight/epic scene and lyrics are.. i don’t know how to call it but it’s gives a vibe of some old traditions or something like that. And those two mixed are so good in giving THAT feeling of Christmas that I can’t even explain-
..also I’m kinda proud of my country for creating a song which is now remade into this
It’s 1 AM why am I writing some random comments on youtube
Y u steal my profile pic
Hell yeah
Because the melody isn’t original, it’s based on an Ukrainian folk song
@@deriokki the melody sounds dark and sinister, yet very festive, while the lyrics are as happy and hopefull as they could possibly be.
I sang this as a part of a choir. I was a very deep bass, paired with one other guy. Our job was to contrast the Soprano and Alto lines, and it was incredible. Our instructor had them bouncing lines between each other trying to "create the stage" (as she put it) for a specific venue that was very open and prone to echo, and it was a true "trust the process" ordeal. During actual performance, with the acoustics, it was the most impressive performance I was ever a part of. I'd give anything to go back in time and spectate our work that day.
Possibly the only song that has "Ding Dong Ding Dong" in its lyrics yet still sounds badass.
what about you touch my tralala?
I'd like to add the "bells" of Notre Dame, in The Hunchback of Notre Dame...
Maybe apart from the Dr Dre song 😅
Ding dong ding dong by George Harrison
Where I came from, Ding Dong is what we called our meat pipes 😆. Yup, badass.
This carol feels like im running for my life from christmas ghosts, I love it.
*The Snow Spirits will find you...*
@@jadetheslime3140 its a Ukrainian song. there are no ghosts
@@exodusky i was joking.
*The ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future are coming for you..*
Speed up the song increasingly while running around a decorated dark mansion lol. 👻 🎁
Its more haunting then any scary movie yet pleasing to listen to
Its somewhat haunting....as u saidd....
Christmas isn’t really supposed to be “good”
@@SainttGee444 mainstream Christmas is literally about spreading cheer and happiness.
Especially the "merry merry merry merry Christmas"
@@SainttGee444 what are you saying it's about family and friends togetherness. You clearly haven't spent a Christmas Eve in a Catholic church, it's like all sins are actually washed of 🥰
This song makes me feel like an "Ancient soul" and these eerie vibes are coming back through centuries.... relieving thousands of years in a 2 min song
love that
I feel exactly the same
Hi Elisa can you please check this song 👏 quickly?
Hark how the bells
Sweet silver bells
All seem to say
Throw cares away
Christmas is here
Bringing good cheer
To young and old
Meek and the bold
Ding, dong, ding, dong
That is their song
With joyful ring
All caroling
One seems to hear
Words of good cheer
From everywhere
Filling the air
Ding dong ding dong ding
Oh how they pound
Raising the sound
O'er hill and dale
Telling their tale
Gaily they ring
While people sing
Songs of good cheer
Christmas is here
Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas
Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas
Hark how the bells
Sweet silver bells
All seem to say
Throw cares away
Christmas is here
Bringing good cheer
To young and old
Meek and the bold
Ding, dong, ding, dong
That is their song
With joyful ring
All caroling
One seems to hear
Words of good cheer
From everywhere
Filling the air
Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas
Merry, merry, merry, merry Christmas
On on they send
On without end
Their joyful tone to every home
Ding dong ding dong ding
Ding dong ding dong ding
Christmas is here
Bringing good cheer
To young and old
Meek and the bold
Ding dong ding dong ding
That is their song
With joyful ring
Ding dong ding dong ding
Elisa this is the song of Carol of the Bells lyrics share it in the group?
This sounds like a song that would play in the background in a medieval major battle during a siege. Greetings, we are going to conquer your entire kingdom but first lets sing a song about the goodness of mankind.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
But first we feast lol
Actually, it’s a New Year Ukrainian song which is supposed to be sung a cappella. It’s very light and joyful and does not sound like a battle song at all.
@@94beatrice Indeed, the song is currently sung on the eve of the Julian New Year (January 13). (which is my birthday, and that might be the explanation why I became so obsessed with this song...I have listened to it about a hundred times)
I think its dramatic
This gives me calming yet bone-chilling christmas vibes
I love this song but my anxiety went through the roof while listening to it wearing headphones.
Я гей
The word you are searching for is Eldrich. As in the Middle English word elfriche, meaning “fairyland.” (The two components of elfriche-“elf” and “riche”-come from the Old English words ælf, “elf,” and rīce, “kingdom.”
Meaning the faes shaded by nature are gazing at you
Literally the actual Christmas spirit.
So basically Nightmare before Christmas
You have my respect if you can sing this without fainting.
I sang it in 7th grade choir- soprano part
Now that I think about it, two people fainted during practice
I sang it in forth ;)
I tried and I was like:😧I can't they go to fast
I fainted. Sorry
Ukrainian schedrivka by M. Leontovych always magical.
Щедрик, щедрик, щедрівочка,
Прилетіла ластівочка,
Стала собі щебетати...
With Love from Ukraine💓💓
Somehow this song makes me feel like santa is walking around my house with a big knife.
I imagined this! 🤣🤣
Same
terminator3000 it is
LMAO I love it
Got to bolt the front door
One of my all-time favorites (and love the pretzels!) The carol melody was adapted by Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych for the Kiev University choir in 1914 or 1916; the English lyrics are by Peter J. Wilhousky (copyright 1936). The song is based on the Ukrainian folk chant "Shchedryk," welcoming the arrival of spring - a swallow flies into people's houses telling them about the good luck and abundance they can expect. (There is also a recording of the Ukranian version by a choir based in Vilnius, Lithuania, here on youtube.)
The Ukrainian National Chorus premiered it in the US at a sold-out Carnegie Hall in October 1921. In the Great Depression, Wilhousky was head of the NBC Symphony Orchestra and popularized the song, which reminded him of hand bells, by having it played on the air with his lyrics. The striking melody is based on a four-note ostinato.
Loved that
That was beautiful. I can see your support for this song
Merry Christmas!
Quite a sophisticated melody for a folk chant. Love it.
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Funny how I never think of Spring listening to it. More like a cathedral in a blizzard on a dark night.
Ukrainian Bell Carol is the original song by Ukrainian composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych who used a four note motif as an ostinato which was used from an ancient pagan Ukrainian New Year's chant called "Shchedryk" meaning the Generous One.
Glad you mantion about it ❤
It's beautiful one of the best carols
З прийдешніми
@@СергійКозак-ц1одякую
Thank you! I’m Ukrainian and glad at least someone mentioned it 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦
Mr.Machico instructed and inspired our Chorus for 12 years at RICHLAND HIGH SCHOOL in Gibsonia, Pennsylvania throughout the 1960s and as a result we were renowned for our expertise and professionalism ! We were often invited to perform at other schools and public venues in the Pittsburgh area. Thanks Mr.Machico for your excellent instruction!
whoever put this choir together. standing ovation. like Crystal clear perfection 👌❤
This is the absolute best part about Christmas, hearing this. This my favorite traditional Christmas song. It’s absolute genius. I’m 36 yrs old now and I still get chills when I hear this. It’s just an indescribable feeling of warmth and love I feel. This song is so sophisticated to me.
This song completes the Christmas holiday
😍😘
This is my favorite Christmas song and my mom's too
This is the only Christmas song I can listen to without wanting to pull my hair out. I wish stores played this more often during Christmas. It's got a darker tone to it which I love.
Do yourself a solid and check out medieval- early modern Christmas songs then, distinct lack of cheese, great rhythms, they're quite addictive!
All I want for Christmas is you
Check out let be Christmas, by Allen Jackson
That makes two
That may be because it was not originally a Christmas song. It was a Ukrainian folk song about spring that was adopted into English Christmas traditions.
By far the coolest Christmas song I've ever heard.
the lyrics: "Christmas is here bringing good cheer XD"
the music: "Christmas is gonna give you a character arch"
Then you gotta be prepared for that damn arc
*Epic training montage ensues*
Я гей
@@lilac_blobReminds me of that scene in Home Alone
I feel like this song is not just for Christmas, but for Winter as well.
That season needs more love on its own, seeing how important Winter truly is.
The song actually has its origins in pre-Christian songs celebrating the end of winter
Specifically a snow storm or avalanche
Winter is a beautiful dead time of year ..all creation must push through to spring and a new birth.
@@nancymorris3407 If you think winter is just "dead time", then you completely missed the point of the season.
I like Vivaldi's Winter more than his Spring
This sure is quite a menacing sounding Christmas carol honestly... I love it.
Black Christmas
“You feel the ominous mysterious and but joyful shiver crawling down your back as the bells of the dead start ringing?”
@@turtle_guy776 "The Bell of Cthulhu has awoken"
Respectfully one of my favorite Christmas songs
This song seems like Christmas and Halloween having a baby. And I like it
Just wait and see what game I'm creating 😊😊😊
NIghtmare before Christmas! I could see Jack listening to this.
@@brandonbond5411what game is it? :)
Best depiction of the song I've read.
I finally found the song that I've had stuck in my head for the past 3 Christmas's
Literally same
fucking same
Same here!
Same
Same
I love this. It itches a brain itch I never knew I had.
Most carols are all jolly and cheerful, whereas this one gives eerie vibes of the olden days at Christmas, people cold in their homes getting warmth from the fire or eating roast chicken spending time with their family.
It is unlike any Carol I've heard and I love so much that im listening to it in june
As someone who doesn't celebrate Christmas culturally, this is one of the few carols I enjoy listening to of my own volition (as opposed to everything I have to hear ad nauseum in every commercial establishment I visit like I'm trapped in some dystopian nightmare that lasts the whole of December).
I suppose it helps that this one has more of an orchestral quality, and the crescendo is quite pleasing to listen to in a mood that isn't just happy-go-lucky cheerful that most other carols seem to embody.
maybe because this is not a christmas carol originally. It is an old prechristian ukrainian song celebrating spring :). u can google it :)
It has a sound of struggle and preservation thru chaos of the world. Best way I can describe it
While still being positive and celebrating Christmas! Making it thru the fire.
I don't know how to explain that this is one of the only christmas songs that reminds me christmas also has to do with jesus and biblical like figures, the tune and lyrics put together just gives me chills💖
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this is the single most aggressive Christmas song ever
(edit: god the replies turned into a warzone, don't go down there, all I did was commentate on how the song sounded)
Ya it is
Listen to the rock version haha
It's pretty metal
YE SHALL BE MERRY
@I want to burn the world well- eeehhh...
britain and england are the same thing, for one thing, and also, did you really need to voice your opinions on my country for no reason here?
This christmas song pretty much sounds haunted, and its awesome. I love the melody and choir voices.
Considering the story behind this song, it is haunted😫
@@spesial8078I would love to hear the story
@@pureteddybear_ this song is really old, coming from pagan times. However, with Christianity it has changed its meaning, but still was remaining to be the traditional Ukrainian song. In last century, after centuries of oppression towards Ukrainians, we tried to build AGAIN our independence. So, our ancestors wanted to show that we a separate nation, we are not stupid and uneducated “farmers”. One of the leaders, I mean of those times, wrote the music to this song and started performing. Then you know, too many events happened here, in the modern territory of Ukraine. When soviets came, they needed to erase all of the sign of having nations (so, please, stop calling us brothers. We had never been). Being Ukrainian meant being stupid. We were a threat to that regime. Consequently, the compositor was killed in his house… His death was a “mystery”, but we all of understand which kind of mystery it was.
It happened in 1921.
Now, in 2024 ruzzland is still not getting calm about the fact that we exist. Pokrovsk believed to be a city, where this Shchedryk was given a world fame, here preliminary compositor made this masterpiece. Now, this city is being destroyed by terroristic state..
Btw, this city is located in Donetsk oblast. So, no, we are historically Ukrainians, not that stupid pig nation.
I'm Muslim but I love this Christmas song and I also love christian events❤️
Love from Sindh Pakistan 🇵🇰
Thank you! And God bless you
@@TheCatholicChurchIsJesusChurch No
@@TheCatholicChurchIsJesusChurch go to hell
@@TheCatholicChurchIsJesusChurch dude
Its originally Ukrainian! Just learnt it myself
This is probably the greatest song humanity has ever sung so far.
This is my absolute favorite Christmas song ever. This version is right at the top as well. Whenever I hear this it signifies Christmas. Merry Christmas to all!
Hark how the bells
Sweet silver bells
All seem to say
Throw cares away
Christmas is here
Bringing good cheer
To young and old
Meek and the bold
Ding-dong, ding-dong
That is the song
With joyful ring
All caroling (Oh, oh, ah)
One seems to hear
Words of good cheer
From everywhere (From everywhere)
Filling the air
Oh, how they pound (Oh, how they pound)
Raising their sound
O'er hill and dale
Telling their tale
Gaily they ring
While people sing songs of good cheer
Christmas is here
Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas
Merry, Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas
On on they send
On without end
Their joyful tone
To every home
Ah, ah, ah
Ding-dong, ding-dong
Ding-dong, ding-dong
Hark how the bells (Hark how the bells)
Sweet silver bells
All seem to say (All seem to say)
Throw cares away
(We…
Yes
Instrumentally one of the most EPIC songs in existence and yet it is a song wishing you a merry Christmas. Wow.
anyone watching in december 2024??
Yeah
Yes
This is sick ❤
Hek yeah
Me
This song will always be my favorite christmas tune. Such a pity it never gets aired on the radio. But no, on the radio its only pop-style Christmas music...
It. Is. Absolutely. Beautiful.
Yeah dude, like the song, “All I Want For Christmas Is You” by Mariah Carey, it’s only a Christmas love song, like what the hell dude, I already hear it enough at my store, so I don’t need to hear it everywhere else.
actually, I is but its the instrumental acoustic version.
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I mean Trans Siberian Orchestra's version plays on the radio
Easily my favorite Christmas carol of all time, and probably one of my favorite Christmas songs in general. It's beautiful, haunting and cheerful all in one.
I've had it on repeat for an hour now... Oh my, what a find....
Lol
This is weirdly calming and comforting to me it just gives me a sense of dark stormy happiness mixed with anxiousness idk it just is an amazing song
Perfect explanation for this song..i feel that too
This is from an ancient pre-Christian Ukrainian folk song that celebrated the arrival of spring. In all cases beautiful and filled with hope for humanity. Slava Ukraini!!!
SLAVA UKRAINI!
Do you know what it's called?
@@ExPhantomHD Shchedryk th-cam.com/video/GqeJ38DThVc/w-d-xo.html
@@ExPhantomHD shchedryk or Щедрик
Heroiam Slava!
Anybody here in 2020
I love this song by the way
I feel ya
Yes, this song brings hope in such a dark time. ✝️✝️✝️
Yea me too
Soon coming King🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧😘😘
Same and I'm watching in 2020
“This is my house, and I have to defend it.”-Kevin McCallister, Home Alone
Uh huh!
(with a strong Italian accent) "Become a nice little fella now, open the door".
@@lindildeev5721 i love this comment
I was searching for this comment. Fell in love with the song the moment I heard it the first time in my life in this movie!
Hardest movie of all time
This is my favorite Christmas song ever!! Been looking for it forever. Sooo underrated. Merry Christmas 🎄
😘
@@talkdattrashimmapullyacard4396.
Hands down this will always be the greatest Christmas song ever. I can listen to it in December, April, August. It doesn't matter to me. And all versions. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is a banger.
Can't agree more
One of those Christmas songs you don't want to end. The music is great and the lyrics are as well.
Magnifique chanson de Noël.👏👏♥🎄🎄.A écouter absolument.😍✨✨
I wasn't raised celebrating Christmas but I want my future children to have the best and most meaningful Christmas memories.
I guess I'll have to do some memorizing of the classics and give them the earthy vibes by singing these to them.
Excited and nervous because it seems that is are absolute gold just digging into this one specific area of Christianity.
By far the best Christmas song, It's so iconic
this song makes me feel like it's a cold Christmas eve and you're in a battle with yourself to turn around from the family you just left. You constantly looking back towards them opening their gifts, putting out milk and cookies, tears rolling down your eyes as you shiver and shake from the cold... you finally turn away and walk away from it, holding onto your heart as you leave the family you just grew with to make you happy as you aren't happy in this household.
This needs more likes
Christmas 🎄 2024. This classic still goes hard 🔥
it has a wonderful medieval sound to it... hauntingly beautiful and captivating 💜
well said
Whoever sang this: thank you. Great job.
Monique Danielle is the singer
I just love how epic this is
Just beautiful. Thank you for uploading.
It's not Christmas yet and I'm listening to this. I seem to love this so much-
Honestly this is the main Christmas that captures the end of 2020.
This is my favourite Christmas carol it s creepy but festive merry Christmas everyone xxxxx🎄🎄🎁🎁
What do you find creepy about it? Scared of Your Soul...haha
@@paulbennett8761 it's good but it has something about it
It's from near uncle Putin...
It has been used in horror films
@@JohnDoe-xv8zl yes and I like i it 😈😈
As someone named Carol, this is by far my favorite Christmas song.
This got to be the creepiest Christmas song I've ever heard
but it's beautiful
It's just the way this cover is sung. Try Pentatonix, their cover will win you over, I'm sure🤗
@@hugemusiclover1837 I've already listened to Pentatonix's cover, but I still prefer this one. It's got a different vibe than most Christmas songs.
Because it is Ukrainian
You should liste to 'Massacre' a Kim Petras' song, she sampled this and turned it into a halloween anthem
Is no xmas without this song . This is a warrior version. 😮 💪 still superb choir n orchestra ❤
Such a beautiful song! Why do i keep imagine it as a perfect background for an homicide??
Because it was. Jesus was eventually murdered. The composer was assassinated also :(.
@@cathywalker5411 , wow...this joyful song just got really dark..
@Valentina Fariello Dies Irae was what this song was based on. If you didn't know, it is a 13th-century death chant for funerals. Vox has a great video about it.
@@nishie.e fr?? i just sang dies irae for choir, we have carol of the bells coming up😰
I love this song ! It's beautiful...
There's something magic with this song... 💞
Love this song! It sets the stage to start decorating quickly before Christmas comes and goes! This is why I love how many of us are starting decorating in November bc yeah. As we get older we really want to engage in the holiday and gather around so yes GO QUICKLY! Get those presents! Put up that tree of lights and memorable ornaments. Save that money before Black Friday hit! So that in Dec it’s nothing but chillaxing with family friends and your church family home with Christmas movies, hot cocoa and board games 🫶🏼 MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!!!!
This one just takes me back to the church scene of home alone 1.. that was my introduction to this brilliant piece as a preteen two decades ago! Wow.. continues to have such an impact! ✨️✨️
Home Alone be like: 😱
Monte 260 XD
Home stallone
@@gregor3374 i think we know what video you were watching there
I'm not afraid I love the chorus version of kids makes me goose bumps
@Foxofthemoon Light same!! XD
The Greatest Christmas song ever written!
Amen
I don’t really like Christmas, but this song is so haunting I love it
This song really reveals the magic of Christmas. Love it.
Why out of all Christmas songs does this one really slam with me? God bless y'all
2020: If you are still alive and listening to this...Congratulations!!!!!!
Good luck king
I saw the same comment on the Lindsey Stirling Vid Lol
Yeah... 2020 has been an awful year
@@diegodubber2140 Ikr
Covid, forest fires, Kobe's death...TwT
@@ConstantlyTired. What a horrible year
Love this song so much, one of the few songs you can put to almost anything. Beautiful Christmas or even an intense scene.
Imagine walking through an old abandoned church and then hearing this song coming from everywhere and nowhere at the same time
Entering the Jesus Christ boss area be like
This is the one winged angel of Christmas music
I always found it a bit creepy when I was a child...
I just discovered it 2 days ago (i'm Egyptian and i'm not Christian) and it's hella creepy
Same, but it's still creepy.
What about the song makes it creepy to you?
@@jamishabattiste8269 the whole song, it's not all that jolly for a Christmas song!
@@Bythehandof... Thank you for responding so quickly. I absolutely love Carol of the Bells and it is one of my favorite Christmas classics. I’m not sure that I’ll ever understand the “creepy” aspect that you and others in the comments are sharing, but I most definitely respect your opinion of the song and wish you a Merry, Merry, Merry Christmas! 🔔🎄🎁
My favourite Christmas song. Its like its the only that takes the holiday seriously
It always felt like this song was about trying to remind depressed, unspirited people about the meaning of Christmas
This is one the most Epic songs ever written!!
Finally! Someone beat me to it. I love this version and I have this song in my music collection.
Merry Christmas
🤗
Do you know who the artist is for this version of the song?
@@Rebellion_009 Yes, I do. The artist for this version goes by Monique Danielle. I'll even link you the original song track from her album.
@@Rebellion_009 Christmas with Monique Danielle
Carol of the Bells
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This atmosphere, holyshit I love this
Ik
Yeah
I hope your profile picture is a joke
@@Bsjs7uu nah that me and my cousin
This song is SOOOO TOUCHING, I cried when I heard THIS SONG.
GREetings from Switzerland 🇨🇭
Makes you feel what a lot of souls yearn over
@@Mechabang thanks 🙏 a bunch for Your valued comment. What this sing also does to me : It speaks directly to my melancholic side
I love this slower version, with only half of a verse on screen for a decent amount of time. Some versions are very fast with a whole verse on the screen for just a few seconds, then on to the next. Thank you.
I don't care if it's Summer or Thanksgiving. I can listen to this masterpiece all the through Christmas if I have too.
Me too this song is epic.
This is hands down the best christmas song ever made! None come close!!!! Love this song!
These kids make fun about boy scouts back in the day. We would sing Christmas carols and do can drives for the church. We hated doing it it but people loved it.😊
I normally don't listen to chirstmas music earlier than November But I will listen to listen to this all year long this song brings a sense of hospitality Also found this song from home alone
Already here listening again. Merry Christmas out there everybody!😊✝️🎄
Whoever is reading this you will be rich and successful in life And God will bless you.If you are reading this, don't forget, I'm wishing you all the best.
❤thank you
I’d love to see this live. When the conductor calms the chorus then builds to crescendo - I would love to see them belt out the final verse.
Started rehearsing this song for the orchestra performance I'm playing this year's Christmas, and found out about this song. This was a week ago, and I just can't stop listening to this somebody help me.
how can this be haunting yet cheerful... but yet the best Christmas song
I’m singing this in choir, when she played the first verse one the piano I yelled, “that’s the Christmas song that’s always on the radio that no one knows the words to!”
Quick reminder that the most famous Christmas carol is not a Christmas song. Written by a Ukrainian composer Mykola Leontovych, it was based on the original Ukrainian folk song associated with the coming New Year (which was in April in pre-Christian Ukraine).
Called „Schedryk“ („bountiful“) it was first introduced to the US audience in 1919 at a concert in Carnegie Hall. Originally sung a cappella it was rearranged for orchestra, got Christmas lyrics & became famous as carol of the bells.
This is the best Christmas song that goes hard. It sounds dark to making it go more hard. I wish there we're more songs like this.
This song is a masterpiece, truly…
The most badass Christmas song ever.
Super beautiful Christmas carol, but one of the most difficult I find to sing too!
We’re singing this song for my school choir, it’s pretty hard, but really fun! I can’t wait to sing it on stage