James Pierpont
Jingle Bells
James Pierpont
Jingle Bells
- Instrumentation 5 Horns
- Composer James Pierpont
- Editor Bruno Peterschmitt
- Series Baton Ensemble
- Edition Score Download
- Publisher Baton Music
- Order no. BTM1241SC-DL
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Description:
'Jingle Bells' is one of the best-known and most commonly sung American songs in the world. It was written in 1850 by James Lord Pierpont (1822-1893) at Simpson Tavern in Medford, Massachusetts. It was first published under the title 'The One Horse Open Sleigh' in September 1857 and originally written to be sung by a Sunday school choir for Thanksgiving, or as a drinking song. Although it has no original connection to Christmas, it became associated with winter and Christmas music in the 1860s and 1870s, and it was featured in a variety of parlor song and college anthologies in the 1880s. Even now, after 170 years 'Jingle Bells' belongs to the world's most famous Christmas songs. French arranger Bruno Peterschmitt arranged 'Jingle Bells' for a Horn quintet.