Electronic music derived from sound of a bell

[John and Annette Thorp]

Part of 'Discovering Music' on Radio 3 earlier today may be of interest to some: description of a piece of electronic music by composer Jonathan Harvey based on analysis (partials etc) of the sound of a bell. You can get to a note on the programme (copied below, tho' I'm not sure that the pictures will get through whatever filter is on this list) and to the relevant 'Listen Again' facility via http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/discoveringmusic/pip/dxbnb/?focuswin.

John Thorp.
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Alwynne Pritchard interviewing Jonathan Harvey for the programme at Huddersfield Festival of Contemporary Music 
in November 2007


Mortuos Plango Vivos Voco 


Winchester Cathedral

The Latin Text is inscribed on the tenor bell in the Bell Chamber at Winchester Cathedral:

Horas Avolantes Numero, Mortuos Plango: Vivos ad Preces Voco

I count the fleeting hours, I lament the dead: the living I call to prayer



The Tenor Bell


Horas Avolantes Numero


Mortuos Plango


Vivos ad Preces Voco           
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