Ya repican las campanas

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Ya repican las campanas

Author: Katharine Emily Roberts; Translator: Haroldo Castellanos Álvarez
Tune: NOS GALAN
Published in 1 hymnal

Piano/Organ
	Christmas Wonder, Set 2

Author: Katharine Emily Roberts

Katherine Emily (Clayton) Roberts was born in 1877 in Leicester, England. Her father, Rev. Lewis Clayton, later became Suffragan Bishop of Leicester and Assistant Bishop of Peterborough. Her mother, Katherine (Hare) Clayton was active in the woman's suffrage movement in England. Katherine Emily Clayton married Rev. Robert Edwin Roberts (1878 - 1940) on January 17, 1901 at Peterborough Cathedral. He was born in Wales (Llangernyw), served as a Master at the Choir School of Westminster Abbey, saw active duty in World War I as a chaplain, worked in a munitions factory, and became a Canon of the Church of England and Dean of Leicester Cathedral. He was reportedly a gifted baritone singer who often gave lecturers on Welsh, Irish and Scottish… Go to person page >

Translator: Haroldo Castellanos Álvarez

(no biographical information available about Haroldo Castellanos Álvarez.) Go to person page >

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First Line:	Ya repican las campanas
English Title:	Now the Joyful Bells A-Ringing
Author:	Katharine Emily Roberts
Translator:	Haroldo Castellanos Álvarez
Language:	Spanish
Copyright:	Used by permission of Oxford University Press

Psalm 148:12-13
(hymns)

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Tune

NOS GALAN

There are many texts for this tune, in both Welsh and English. In Welsh the theme is often more patriotic than seasonal (as in the words "Oer yw'r gwr sy'n methu caru"), but in English by far the commonest text is "Deck the Hall" (or "Halls").

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