Однозвучно гремит колокольчик | The Monotonous Bell Keeps On Ringing

Odnozvuchno gremit kolokol'chik
(The Monotonous Bell Keeps On Ringing)

The first melody to this famous Russian romance was composed in 1853, by the Russian composer A. Gurilov (1803-1858), to the words of a poem, written by Ivan Makarov.

Ivan Makarov was a little-known poet, who was born in 1920 or 1921 in Perm, Russia, as a serf of the landowner Aleksander Vsevolzhskiy, who's brother Nikitin was a friend of the famous Russian writer Pushkin.

 

Aleksander Vsevolzhskiy, on his turn, was a very strict man, and he would not allow his peasants to do things that were not involved to serve in his name.

 

Ivan Makarov, however, had learned how to read and write from a native deacon, and started to write poems.

 

As Aleksander Vsevolzhskiy found out about this writings, he judged this to be very offensive. He ordered to send Ivan Makarov to soldiers, and the young poet, as well as his father before, was forced to become a coachman to the Perm Company Convoy, being his task to bring the mail to the exiles in Siberia.

 

 

For his new job as a coachman, Ivan Makarov had to travel across the long Siberian roads. This was a very hard work, through rain, cold, snow and in loneliness. 

 

In 1852 the body of the frozen coachman was found on the traject Kungur-Suksun. With him he had a bag, containing poems, signed with the name of Ivan Makarov.

 

Amongst them was also the poem "The Monotonous Bell Keeps On Ringing". The poem was published in Saint-Petersburg in the magazine "Pantheon", and Gurilov put it to music, after having made some changes, such as deleting the last verse, in which Makarov mentioned their homes.

Gurilov finished the poem with a repetition of the first verse. Since there were no names of places mentioned, the melody to the poem was considered folk.

 

Monotonously Rings the Little Bell(희미한 종소리) - Bolshoi Chorale (러, 영, 한 Russian, English, Korean)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktbU3JLwGIs

 

 Two years later, an unknown Russian amateur composer, Konstantin Sidorovich, wrote another melody to the same poem. His romance was generally recognized and destined to a long life.

 

Many famous singers, such as Yuri Morfessi, Anastasia Vyaltseva, Ivan Kozlovsky, Tamara Sinyavskaya, Muslim Magomayev, Nikolai Gedda, Ivan Rebroff and many others included it in their repertoire. Also the recordings by Nadezhda Plevitskaya in 1909, and Ekaterina Yurovskaya in 1932, made the romance composed by Sidorovich widely known.

The romance on the music by Gurilov has been also widely performed. Many artists included it in their repertoire:  Sergey Lemeshev , Bela Rudenko, Dmitri Khvorostovskiy, Oleg Pogudin , and others

 

 The name of the poet, Ivan Ivanovich Makarov, as a romance author of "The Monotonous Bell Keeps On Ringing", was mentioned for the first time in the book "Songs of Russian poets", published by the publishing house "The Soviet Writer" in 1936, edited by I. N. Razanov.

 

Earlier, however, N. A. Engelgard had argued in his memories, published in "The Last Guitar"- historical journal, 1910, that the romance had been written by his grandfather, the famous guitarist Nikolay Petrovich Makarov (1810-1890).

 

 

Der russische Komponist Alexander Lwowitsch Guriljow (1803-1858).

 

Aleksander L'vovich Gurilyov (Russian: Александр Львович Гурилёв; 3 September [O.S. 22 August] 1803 – 11 September [O.S. 30 August] 1858) was a composer, pianist, violinist, and music teacher who largely enriched the traditional romantic Russian repertoire through his solid technical accomplishments.

알렉산드르 르보비치 구리료프(러시아어: Александр Львович Гурилёв; 1803년 9월 3일 [OS 8월 22일] – 1858년 9월 11일 [OS 8월 30일])는 작곡가, 피아니스트, 바이올리니스트, 음악 교사였으며 탄탄한 기술적 성취를 통해 전통적인 낭만주의 러시아 레퍼토리를 크게 풍부하게 했습니다. 

 

He composed well over 200 pieces imbued with romantic, sentimental moods and subtle lyricism which enjoyed great success in Russia. He wrote numerous morceaux (short pieces) in a proto-dramatic, lyric declamatory style, all pre-dating the aesthetics of Dargomyzhsky, Mussorgsky and Tchaikovsky.

그는 낭만적이고 감상적인 분위기와 섬세한 서정성을 지닌 200여 곡의 작품을 작곡하여 러시아에서 큰 성공을 거두었습니다. 그는 다르고미시스키, 무소르그스키, 차이코프스키의 미학 이전에 원시적이고 서정적인 선언적 스타일로 수많은 모르소(단편 작품)를 썼습니다.

 

Most of his songs were written within the 1820s and 1830s. He wrote over 200 pieces, of which 50 are either folk pieces or were written using similar effects.  Many of his songs have been sung by the Don Cossack Choir and other renowned, Russian vocal groups.

그의 노래 대부분은 1820년대와 1830년대에 작곡되었습니다. 그는 200편이 넘는 작품을 썼는데, 그 중 50편은 민속 작품이거나 유사한 효과를 사용하여 쓴 작품입니다. 그의 노래 중 상당수는 돈 코사크 합창단(Don Cossack Choir)과 기타 유명한 러시아 성악 그룹이 불렀습니다.

 

Vladimir Albatayev : 'Monotonously Rings the Little Bell'

Beautiful Russian Folk Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IurNDNjghlU

 

Aug 8, 2012

 

"Siberia, year 1852. Dead frozen body of a coachman was found and in his bag a notebook full of handwritten poems.

 

Name of poet was Ivan Makarov, completely unknown at that time. One year later these poems were published and music composer Alexander Gurilev wrote music on the poem he liked most : The Lonely coach bell, nowadays erroneously named “ The monotous bell” “Little bell” or “ Monotonously rings a bell”. Maybe it is 'Monotonously Rings the Little Bell.' I think in Russian it is 'Adnazvutshno Gremit Kalakoltshik.' Singer is Vladimir Albatayev, born in the Republic of Buryatia, in Siberia. Russia.

 

 

@stevemarquardt8 years ago

Monotonously the little bell is sounding,

and the dust on the way is stirred up a bit,

and sadly over the plain field

flows the song of my coachman.

There was so much feeling in this song,

so much feeling in the familiar tune,

that in my cool breast

my heart inflamed. 

 

And I recall other nights,

and the fields, and the woods of my home, and into my eyes which had been dry so long

a tear arose as a spark.

 

Monotonously the little bell is sounding, slightly echoing from afar,

and my coachman fell silent, but the way

in front of me is still so long, so long.  

 

Odnozvuchno gremit kolokol'chik i doroga pylitsja slegka

i unylo po rovnomu polju

zalivaetsja pesn' jamsch'ika. 

 

I pripomnilis' pesni drugie i rodnye polja i lesa

i na ochi davno ugasshie

nabezhala, kak iskra sleza. 

 

Stol'ko chuvstva v toj pesne unyloj

stol'ko chuvstva v napeve rodnom

chto v grudi moej hladnoj ostyloj

razgoraetsja serdce ognjem. 

 

Odnozvuchno gremit kolokol'chik

izdali otklikajas' slegka i zamolk moj jamsch'ik, a doroga

predo mnoj daleka, daleka.

 

 

 

 

The Bell Is Ringing Monotonously

"The lonely bell", "Monotonously rings the little bell", and, in German: "Eintönig klingt hell das Glöckchen".

 

The lyric

 

Variant 1

"Monotonously the little bell is sounding,
And the dust trail follow us,
And all over the plain field
Flows the song of my coachman."

"There is so much longing in this song,
So much emotion in the familiar tune
That even my long indifferent to everything heart
Lights with string emotions.

 

Variant 2 (from the post by salim ahmed)
Song title: The Lonely Coach-Bell

Oh, how lonely the coach bell is ringing,
And the dust from the road fills the air.
And the coachman’s sorrowful singing
Floats across the wild fields in despair.
That sad song overflows with such feeling,
So much grief can be heard in that strain,
That my cold heart, long hardened and weary
In my bosom was kindled again.
I recalled other nights, other wand’rings,
And the fields and the forests so dear,
And my eyes, which so long have been arid,
Became moistened like jewels with a tear.
Oh, how lonely the coach bell is ringing,
As it swings in the night to and fro.
And my coachman has now fallen silent,
And I still have a long way to go

 

And I suddenly remember the nights that long have been passed.
And the fields and forests of my home,
And from my eyes, which had been dry for a long time,
A tear flow like a small spark.

"Monotonously the little bell is sounding,
Softly echoing from afar,
And my coachman sullenly fell silent.
And the read before us is still long and goes far."

 

Odnozvuchno gremit kolokolchik
(Monotonously Tolls The Little Bell)

 

The story of this song is tragic: In Siberia in 1852 they found a dead body of coachman who got frozen during a long road. There was a notebook with handwriting poems in his bag. Name of the author of the poems Иван Макаров (Ivan Makarov) was not known during his life time.

 

After a year since they were published the poems composer Александр Львович Гурилев (Alexander Gurilev) (1803 – 1858) wrote music for a poem what he liked the most. That was a start for the famous Russian romance “The Lonely Coach-Bell”.  In three years another Russian composer К. Сидорович (K. Sidorovich) wrote his version of music for the poem and this romance has got a long life and all people love!

 

Andre Rieu : Monotonously rings the little bell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxsqQsX_8Kc

 

Jan 3, 2010

Monotonously rings the little bell

단조롭게 작은 종소리가 울린다