Tubular bells

Tubular bells were first used orchestrally by Giuseppe Verdi in his operas Rigoletto (1851), Il trovatore (1853) and Un ballo in maschera (1859). Notable uses in classical music: • Giuseppe Verdi – Rigoletto (1851) • Giuseppe Verdi – Il trovatore (1853) • Giuseppe Verdi – Un ballo in maschera (1859) • Modest Mussorgsky – Boris Godunov (1869, 1872, 1874) • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky – 1812 Overture (1880) • Pietro Mascagni – Cavalleria rusticana (1890) • Ruggero Leoncavallo – Pagliacci (1892) • Gustav Mahler – Symphony No. 2 (1895) • Giacomo Puccini – Tosca (1900) • Alexander Scriabin – ''Le Poème de l'extase'' (1908) • Anton Webern – Six Pieces for large orchestra (1909–1910, revised 1928) • Claude Debussy – Ibéria (1910) • Gustav Holst – The Planets (1914–1916) • Giacomo Puccini – Turandot (1926) • Edgard Varèse – Ionisation (1931) • Richard Strauss – Die schweigsame Frau (1935) • Paul Hindemith – Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber (1944) • Erich Wolfgang Korngold – Violin Concerto (1945) • Benjamin Britten – Albert Herring (1945) • Aaron Copland – Symphony No. 3 (1946) • Olivier Messiaen – Turangalîla-symphonie (1946–1948) • Carl Orff – Antigonae (1949) • Dmitri Shostakovich – Symphony No. 11 (1957) • Olivier Messiaen – Chronochromie (1959–1960) • Arvo Pärt – Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten (1977) • David Stanhope – Folksongs for Band, Suite no. 3 (1991, revised 2016) • Daron Hagen – Shining Brow (1993) ==In popular music==

Multi-instrumentalist Mike Oldfield's first album Tubular Bells, which provided the musical theme for the 1973 film The Exorcist, came about when, at the beginning of his "solo symphony" recording project in 1972, Oldfield discovered a set of tubular bells at The Manor Studio in Oxfordshire, England, used by the previous musician recording there, John Cale. ==Pipe Organ Chimes==

Pipe organs are often installed with tubular bells, called "Chimes," playable from the keyboards and sometimes pedals when the "Chimes" stop is drawn. These bells are struck by hammers triggered by either electric or pneumatic mechanisms when they receive an electrical signal from the console keyboards (although some mechanical mechanisms do exist). ==Other uses==

Tubular bells can be used as church bells, such as at St. Alban's Anglican Church in Copenhagen, Denmark. These were donated by King Charles III (then Prince of Wales). Tubular bells are also used in longcase clocks, particularly because they produce a louder sound than gongs and regular chime-rods and therefore could be heard more easily. ==See also==