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Here you go: https://www.whitingsociety.org.uk/articles/basic-tuition/ita... There are a fair few videos on YouTube as well.
That link (like the Wikipedia article) is talking about the mechanism by which the bell is rung, not what is rung out on them i.e. they are not ringing the changes.
Did someone say Bells on Sunday? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sgsh Which normally segues into the Shipping Forecast
I prefer a nice drop of Laphroaig myself.
Sayers, mentioned here in passing, wrote probably the only detective story explicitly called out (as an introduction to change ringing) in The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (a mighty 20 volume encyclopaedia). So if you like old detective stories and this article tickled your interest, perhaps give "The Nine Tailors" a whirl. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Tailors
> composers tend to base their methods in mathematical principles such as group theory I know many composers were and are very in tune with the mathematics of music. But the “tend to” makes me wonder: were most of them in tune, or is it that pleasant sounding music will inevitably display mathematical patterns?
Bell ringing is English?? I grew up in England and assumed all churches everywhere did it. I guess I just never noticed its absence in the USA, despite living here for over 20 years.
This might be two ways of saying the same thing, but I wonder if it’s less about culture and more about having a lot more big-giant-bell-era churches. Not that you implied your observation is about culture. I’m doing that.
Once you start changing the rules, you are no longer following the tradition. You're accepting that the tradition can be changed, and in that case, I'd prefer it changed to "silence" not "jumping".
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That link (like the Wikipedia article) is talking about the mechanism by which the bell is rung, not what is rung out on them i.e. they are not ringing the changes.
It's got compositions on the page, a link to a PDF with compositions in it and a link to the Veronese ringing association which has many more examples - if you can read Italian.