Deagan tower chime library

Chime Master offers music that has been specially arranged and performed for Deagan Tower Chimes.

• Single Tone without dampers
• Single Tone with dampers
• Harmonic chime with dampers
• Harmonic chime with dampers and sustain pedals

Most Deagan tower chimes must be played slightly slower than other chimes, especially when it comes to repeated notes. A single note cannot generally be struck faster than 80 beats per minute. This becomes an issue for music with consecutive eighth notes, necessitating a momentary ritardando.

The smaller 10 to 15-note harmonic chimes should only be played with single tone (melody only) music.

Available music

Most of our catalog is available for 10 note chimes. A ten-note Deagan tower chime spans 9 diatonic notes with one flat 7th semitone.

PDF Listing: 10-Note Deagan Library

The following selections require more than ten notes. When marked (adjusted) a note or two have been changed or transposed to avoid missing notes or narrow the required range. These selections may be deleted by the user.

12 or more notes

PDF Listing: 12-Note Deagan Library

Adds the leading tone (E) and sharp 4th (B )to a 10-note chime (F based).

Additional selections

• All Creatures of our God and King
• Angels from the Realms of Glory
• At That First Eucharist
• Battle Hymn of the Republic
• Blessed Assurance
• Bless this House (adjusted)
• Christ Is The King!
• Christ is risen! Christ is risen! (Resurrexit)
• Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean
• Crown Him with Many Crowns
• Day by Day
• Deck the Halls
• Eternal Father, Strong to Save
• Fairest Lord Jesus
• For All the Saints (Sarum)
• God Moves in a Mysterious Way
• God of Grace and God of Glory
• God of our Fathers
• Good Christian Friends, Rejoice and Sing
• Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah
• Hark! A Thrilling Voice Is Sounding
• Here We Come A-Wassailing
• I Know that My Redeemer Lives (Handel)
• I Love to Tell the Story
• I Sing the Mighty Power of God
• Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise
• In the Garden
• It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
• Jesus, Meek and Gentle
• Jesus, My Lord, My God, My All (Sweet Sacrament)
• Jesus, Thou Divine Companion (LeJeune)
• Lead on, O King Eternal
• Lord, Speak to Me, That I May Speak (Canonbury)
• My Wild Irish Rose
• Now on Land and Sea Descending (Vesper Hymn)
• Now the Day is Over
• O Bone Jesu
• O Come Little Children
• O Cor Amoris Victima
• O Lord, I Am Not Worthy
• O Salutaris Hostia (Melcombe)
• On This Day, O Beautiful Mother
• Rejoice! Rejoice! Belieivers (Llangloffan)
• Rejoice, The Lord Is King
• Rise Up, Ye Saints of God (Festal Song)
• The Church's One Foundation
• The Day of Resurrection
• The King Shall Come (St. Stephen)
• The Spacious Firmament on High
• There Is a Green Hill Far Away
• To Thee, O Lord, our hearts we raise
• Veni Creator Spiritus
• What a Friend We Have in Jesus
• When Morning Gilds the Skies
• Where Cross the Crowded Ways

14 or more notes

PDF Listing: 14-Note Deagan Library

Adds flat 2nd and flat 6th semitones to 12 note chime.

Additional selections:

• Ave Maria (Schubert)
• Ave Maria (Traditional)
• Beautiful Dreamer
• O Little Town of Bethlehem

16 or more notes

PDF Listing: 16-Note Deagan Library

Sixteen-note Deagan tower chimes are fully chromatic from E to G.

Additional selections:

• Alleluia! Alleluia! Let the Holy Anthem Rise
• America the Beautiful
• Awake and Sing the Song
• Ave Verum
• Beneath the Cross of Jesus
• Bless this House (adjusted)
• Bridal Chorus
• Christ the Lord Is Risen Today (adjusted)
• Come Back to Erin
• Dear Lord and Father of Mankind
• Groves of Blarney
• Hark! The Herald Host Is Singing (Humperdinck)
• Have Thine Own Way, Lord
• Holy Spirit, hear our prayer (Veni Jesu)
• I Heard the bells on Christmas Day
• Intermezzo from Cavalleria Rusticana (Mascagni)
• Jesus, Savior of My Soul
• Let All Things Now Living (adjusted)
  • Praise Peal clock chiming
• Love Divine, All Loves Excelling
• Mother Dear, O Pray for Me
• Nocturne in E Flat Major (Chopin)
• O Master Let Me Walk With Thee
• On Jordan's Bank (Winchester New)
• Onward Christian Soldiers
• Siciliano (Bach)
• Sleepers, Wake, A Voice Astounds Us (adjusted)
• The Old Rugged Cross
• To a Wild Rose (MacDowell)
• To Jesus' Heart All Burning
• Waltz in E Major (Brahms)
• What Child is This? (Greensleeves)
• When Irish Eyes Are Smiling (adjusted)

18 or more notes

PDF Listing: 18-Note Deagan Library

Eighteen note tower chimes are very common, spanning 1-1/2 octaves F to C, and missing the low F# and high B.

Additional selections:

• Accept, Almighty Father (Ewing)
• All Glory, Laud, and Honor
• And Can it Be?
• Be Thou My Vision
• Because
• By Gracious Powers (Intercessor)
• Christ the Lord Is Risen Today
• Fur Elise (Beethoven)
• God Moves in a Mysterious Way
• Hail! Holy Queen Enthroned Above
• Holy Patron, Thee Saluting
• In the Cross of Christ I Glory
• Let All Things Now Living
• Minstrel Boy
• Minuet in G Major (Bach)
• O Danny Boy
• O Holy Night
• Oh Promise Me
• O Sacred Heart! O Love Divine
• Saint Patrick's Day
• Santa Lucia
• Shenandoah
• Silent Night, Holy Night!
• Sleepers, Wake, A Voice Astounds Us
• The Star Spangled Banner
• This is My Father's World
• Wedding March
• Were You There
• When Irish Eyes Are Smiling

Exceptions

• Bless this House
  • Adjusted version for 12 to 16 notes
  • Properly played on 20 or more notes

20 and 25 notes

PDF Listing: 25-Note Deagan Library

These chimes are fully chromatic.

Additional selections:

• Ave Maria (Gounod)
• The Swan (Saint-Saens)

30 and 32 notes

PDF Listing: 32-Note Deagan Library

Additional selection:

• The Bells of St. Mary
• Gesu Bambino

Typical rolls and libraries for these larger chimes will have the music from smaller libraries transposed up to allow even wear of the chime action.

Available formats

Rolls for Deagan players are available for order. A photo of your player's tracker bar contacts showing the markings on its cover is useful so we know how many contacts it has and which side has the control contacts.

Advanced eXperience controller

All music from the catalog is available and included in our Libertas touchscreen chime controller. Modern solid state relay panels (spark free) are available for interfacing direct to both Deagan strikers and dampers.

Deagan Roll Player formats

ST - Single Tone

Deagan chimes with straight tubes have odd harmonics that will clash if more than one note is played at a time. This is the primary reason Deagan began to use dampers to mute previous notes when a new note is played. The long decay time for Deagan tower chimes was another important factor leading to the development of Deagan's tower chime dampers. Without dampers, the lower notes provided on twelve or more chimes becomes a muddy roar that obscures the melody.

H - Harmonic

Deagan chimes that are harmonically tuned were introduced in the late 1930s. Harmony arrangements are not generally available for chimes less than 16 notes. Early systems with 73-type relays would play harmony if the notes are overlapped (holding a bass tone).

HP - Harmonic Pedal (Piano style sustain)

Later (post 1940) harmonic Deagan tower chimes were supplied with 74-type relays that worked with a keyboard pedal acting like a piano's sustain pedal. Music rolls recorded by June Albright Howard have this pedal signal encoded on them. Note that with the 74-type relays the musician playing a melody without harmonization must play overlapping legato and pedal all repeated notes. Otherwise the note will die as soon as the key is released, just like a piano.