This is our (mostly) complete 8-bell music list, designed as a guide for anyone considering booking us to play handbell duets. We add new titles often, so if you’re looking for a list of music scores available for purchase, please visit our music site.
Traditional, Folk, International and Patriotic Music:
Al die Willen te Kaap’ren Varen
Alouette
America, the Beautiful
The Ants Go Marching
The Ash Grove (with piano accompaniment)
Auld Lang Syne
Aura Lea
Banish Misfortune
Barney Brannigan
Beautiful Dreamer
The Bells of St Mary’s
The Blarney Pilgrim
Botany Bay
Bunessan (Morning Has Broken)
The Butterfly
By the Light of the Silvery Moon
Calliope House
Chloe’s Passion
Daisy Bell
Dashing Away with the Smoothing Iron
De Waldhoorn
Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes
Eugowra Rocks/The Morning of the Fray
Fear A’ Bhàta
Funeral Tango
Greensleeves
“Grizzly’s Peak” (The Bear Went Over the Mountain)
Gwerzy
Happy Birthday
Hardiman the Fiddler
Het Roosje
Home on the Range
The Humours of Whiskey
I Vow to Thee, My Country
Iona Boat Song
Jim Ward’s Jig
King of the Fairies
Klein Vogelijn
Land of Hope and Glory
Linstead Market
Londonderry Air/Danny Boy
Ma Navu
Morag’s Cradle Song
Moreton Bay
Morrison’s Jig
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Off to California
Sakura
Shalom Aleichim
Shalom Chaverim
The Skye Boat Song (with piano accompaniment)
Spider Song
The Swaggering Jig
This Old Man
Tripping Up the Stairs
Twinkle Samba
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
Waltzing Matilda
The Water is Wide/O Waly Waly
When Irish Eyes are Smiling
When Johnny Comes Marching Home
The Whinny Hills of Leitrim
Wrong Foot Forward
You’re a Grand Old Flag
Zeg Kwezelken, Wilde Gij Dansen?
Christmas and Holiday Music:
A la Media Noche
The Angel Gabriel
Angels from the Realms of Glory
Angels We Have Heard on High
As With Gladness, Men of Old (see “For the Beauty of the Earth)
Auld Lang Syne
Away in a Manger
Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Carol of the Drum
The Cherry Tree Carol
Child in the Manger (see Morning Has Broken/Bunessan)
Comfort, Comfort Ye, My People
Creator of the Stars of Night
Deck the Halls
Die Drie Koningen
Es ist für uns eine Zeit angekommen
The First Nowell
The Friendly Beasts
From Starry Skies Descending
Go, Tell it on the Mountain
Good Christian Men, Rejoice
Good King Wenceslas
He Is Born (Il est Né)
Hills of the North, Rejoice
Hoet leit dir Kindeke (Cold is this Little Child)
How Great Our Joy
I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day (with piano accompaniment)
I Saw Three Ships
I Wonder as I Wander
In the Bleak Midwinter
Infant Holy, Infant Lowly
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (U.S. and U.K. versions)
Jingle Bells
Jolly Old Saint Nicholas
Joseph Dearest, Joseph Mine
Joy to the World
Jul, Jul, Strålande Jul
Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
Lo! He Comes, with Clouds Descending
Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming
Los Peces en el Rio
Love Came Down at Christmas (with piano accompaniment)
Selections from “The Nutcracker”
O Come, All Ye Faithful
O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
O du Frohliche
O Holy Night
O Little Town of Bethlehem
O Morning Star, How Fair and Bright
Of the Father’s Love Begotten
On Jordan’s Bank, the Baptist’s Cry
On this Day Earth Shall Ring
Once in Royal David’s City
Pat-a-Pan
People, Look East
Ring the Bells (Harry Bollbank)
Santa’s Bag / De Zak van Sinterklaas
Savior of the Nations, Come
See, Amid the Winter’s Snow
The Seven Joys of Mary
Silent Night
Sing We Now of Christmas
Slumber Song of the Infant Jesus
The Snow Lay on the Ground
Still, Still, Still
Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night All Christians Sing)
‘Twas in the Moon of Wintertime
Ukrainian Bell Carol
Up on the Housetop
The Wassail Song
We Three Kings
What Child is This?
Whence is that Goodly Fragrance Flowing?
While Shepherds Watched their Flocks by Night
Hymns:
Abide With Me
Adoro Te Devote
Ah, Holy Jesus
Alas, and Did My Savior Bleed
All Glory, Laud and Honor (with piano accompaniment)
All Hail the Lord’s Anointed
All Hail the Power of Jesus’ Name
All Things Bright and Beautiful (with or without piano accompaniment)
All the Way My Savior Leads Me
Amazing Grace
At the Cross
Be Still, My Soul (Finlandia)
Be Thou My Vision (with piano accompaniment)
Beach Spring
Blessed Assurance (with piano accompaniment)
Children of the Heavenly Father
Christ, the Life of All the Living
Christ the Lord is Risen Today
Come, All You People, Praise Our God
Come Christians, Join to Sing
Come Down, O Love Divine
Come, Thou Almighty King
Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
Come, Ye Thankful People, Come (with piano accompaniment)
Count Your Blessings (with piano accompaniment)
Crown Him with Many Crowns
The Day Thou Gavest, Lord, is Ended
Dona Nobis Pacem
Doxology
Earth and All Stars
Fairest Lord Jesus
Faith of Our Fathers
For All the Saints
For the Beauty of the Earth
Glorious Things of Thee Are Spoken
Go to Dark Gethsemane
Great is Thy Faithfulness
Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
Hail the Day that Sees Him Rise
Hail to the Lord’s Anointed
He Keeps Me Singing
He Leadeth Me
The Heavens Declare Your Glory
Holy is the Lord
Holy Manna
How Firm a Foundation
Hyfrydol
I Greet Thee, Who My Sure Redeemer Art
I Need Thee Every Hour
I Sing the Mighty Power of God
I Stand Amazed
I Surrender All
I Vow to Thee My Country / O God, Beyond All Praising
I Want Jesus to Walk With Me
Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
In Babilone
In the Garden
In the Sweet By and By (with piano accompaniment)
It is Well with My Soul
Jacob’s Ladder
Jerusalem, my Happy Home
Jesus Loves Me
Jesus Paid it All
Jesus Walked this Lonesome Valley
Jesús es mi Rey Soberano
Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
Just as I am
The King of Love My Shepherd Is
Kingsfold
Let All Things Now Living
Lift High the Cross (with piano accompaniment)
Llangloffan
Lord, Who Throughout These Forty Days (see Jerusalem, my Happy Home)
The Love of God
Lucerna Laudoniae
A Mighty Fortress is Our God
Mfurahini, Haleluya
Morning Has Broken
Morning Song
My Faith Looks Up to Thee
My Jesus, I Love Thee
My Song is Love Unknown
Nearer, My God, to Thee
Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen
Now Thank We All Our God
O, the Deep, Deep Love of Jesus
O Give the Lord Wholehearted Praise
O God, Beyond All Praising
O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go
O Sacred Head, Now Wounded
O Wondrous Sight, O Vision Fair
O Worship the King
O Zion, Haste (with piano accompaniment)
Oh, How I Love Jesus
One Day
Praise God, Ye Servants of the Lord
Praise Him! Praise Him!
Praise to the Lord, the Almighty
Savior, Like a Shepherd Lead Me
Shall We Gather at the River? (with piano accompaniment)
Simple Gifts
Sing Praise to God, Who Reigns Above
Somos del Señor
Song of Hope
Song of Joy
Spirit of God, Descend upon my Heart
Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus
Sunrise
Sweet Hour of Prayer
Take My Life and Let it Be
Take the Name of Jesus With You
That Easter Day With Joy was Bright
This Joyful Eastertide
To God Be the Glory
To the Hills I Life Mine Eyes
What Wondrous Love is This?
We Gather Together
We Place Upon Your Table, Lord
Were You There?
When I Survey the Wondrous Cross
When Morning Gilds the Skies
While on the Sea (Ukrainian folk hymn, with piano accompaniment)
Classical:
Air, from Handel’s Water Music Suite in F Major
Allegro (Vivaldi, RV522)
Arioso
Bourée, from Handel’s Water Music Suite in D Major
Bridal Chorus
Chopsticks
Finlandia
Funeral Tango
Larghetto
Selections from “The Nutcracker”
Panis Angelicus
Prelude from “Te Deum”
Rondeau (Mouret)
Rule, Britannia!
Sandmännchen
Sheep May Safely Graze
Silver and Bronze (original composition for eight handbells and flute)
St Anthony Chorale
To a Wild Rose
