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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>I have played Jenkins' music quite extensively in
the past and never felt that his melodies were in any way method based. Having
played the "six bells, mourners and ringers" lyra consort set in particular,
I would have said that the extended penultimate note of the changes
represented is far more about trying to fit the melody into common triple
time than representing an open handstroke lead. All but the opening rounds start
on the first beat of the bar. Starting with an upbeat means that the treble is
missed out on the first backstroke in order to make musical sense. After that
"intro" all the other changes which start with a repeat of rounds (complete
this time) begin on a downbeat. Backstokes consistently
follow on, the penultimate note lasts for two beats and the tenor or final
note of the row lasts for three beats to enable the next change to start on the
first beat of the bar again For interest the changes
depicted after rounds come in this sequence, in whole pulls as
follows:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>P J Trent</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, June 21, 2010 6:09 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Bell Historians] Open
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<P>John Harrison wrote on 21/06/2010 16:35:<BR>> Does anyone know when
ringing with an open hand stroke lead first developed<BR>> and
why?<BR>><BR>> It is clearly described in the Clavis Campanalogia of
1788, but I can't<BR>> find any mention in Campanologia Improved of
1733.<BR>><BR><BR>The composer John Jenkins (1592-1678)wrote several 'Bell'
pieces.<BR><BR>Three of them that I have come across have definite ringing
motifs in <BR>them: 'Lady Katherine Audley's Bells', 'The Six Bells', and 'The
Five <BR>Bells', which I think is fairly similar to 'Lady Katherine Audley's
<BR>Bells'. From what I have read about Jenkins there is no ready dated list
<BR>of his works. He died in 1678 and was rather frail in his last
years.<BR><BR>Each of these pieces has a movement called 'The Bells' which
begins with <BR>rounds on five or six and then has varying sequences of
changes. The <BR>rounds on five go 1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4- 5 (rest)1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3
4- 5, with <BR>each note played in a regular beat but with a longer note on 4
of the <BR>'backstroke'. The music shows definite groups of ten beats with a
space <BR>between.<BR><BR>I have not seen the musical notation for these
pieces, but I would <BR>suggest from the recordings I have heard that this
might be evidence for <BR>open handstrokes. I have no idea whether present-day
performance might <BR>be influenced by our current ringing
conventions.<BR><BR>Amazon UK has a track available for download, and it is
possible to play <BR>a sample (which does not start from the 'rounds') without
buying the <BR>track. I am not sure how well the link will work for those
outside the <BR>UK. It is the third movement, 'The Bells'. I am not promoting
Amazon as <BR>such, just pointing to a place to illustrate my
meaning.<BR><BR><<A
href="http://tinyurl.com/33gr65o">http://tinyurl.com/33gr65o</A>><BR><BR>(On
Amazon.com the link is <<A
href="http://tinyurl.com/25pkq9t">http://tinyurl.com/25pkq9t</A>>)<BR><BR>This
is just a tentative notion, not a full-blown theory. I think that <BR>Morris
in his 'History and Art' repeated a theory that Jenkins used <BR>actual
methods (Grandsire?) in his music, but I don't have a copy to <BR>check. But I
don't think Morris investigated these ideas for himself.<BR><BR>Anyway, it
might push 'evidence' for open handstrokes a bit earlier that <BR>the books
John mentioned.<BR><BR>Hayden Charles<BR></P></DIV><!-- end group email --></BODY></HTML>