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Did someone say Bells on Sunday? https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006sgsh Which normally segues into the Shipping Forecast
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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.
Ah, I stand corrected. I couldn't listen to the examples last night so I have egg on my face this morning :)
It does sound slightly different as they use chords.
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.
Very few churches in the American suburbs have bells, and most have replaced them with speakers playing recorded bells if they have anything at all :(
Hand-rung bells do still exist and get installed; offhand I know of one new installation and three old.
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.
There is some change ringing in the USA, just not very much of it. There are towers around.. https://www.nagcr.org/towers-and-bands There's even a few change ringing towers dotted around parts of Africa, Australia, some of Europe. Just few and far between. But when compared to England, where practically every town can be relied upon to have at least a 6 bell tower where change ringing can happen, it's no comparison.
Apparently, I now live in one of the other places where there is a tower (Carmel, IN), but I’ve never heard changes rung on it. It doesn’t appear from the website that it has any local players, which is too bad.
The only way you can justify public bell ringing is by appeal to tradition. Church bells are very loud and are placed in tall bell towers to be heard over a wide area. Despite the disruption and annoyance they can cause, this is an important part of English culture and I support it. Once you start changing the rules, you are no longer following the tradition. You're accepting that the tradition can be changed, and in…
> 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?
> 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?
-- Arnold Schoenberg, Theory of Harmony