[Bell Historians] Bell-historians Digest, Vol 25, Issue 6

Sam Austin sam0austin at gmail.com
Wed Jan 26 11:40:56 GMT 2022


Makes more musical sense with ‘1’ as the tenor and ‘4’ as the treble, acting as the tonic. 2nd line implies modulation to the dominant. 

Sam

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> On 26 Jan 2022, at 11:30, Richard Johnston <johnstonrh at rhj.org.uk> wrote:
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> On 26 Jan 2022 at 11:00, bell-historians-request at lists.ringingworl 
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>> 4 3 1 2 2 3 1 4
>> 4 3 1 3 2 1
>> 4 3 1 2 2 3 1 4
>> 3 2 3 1 2 4
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> Given what Tony has now told us, this looks to me far more like a 
> piece of music that was played by chiming the bells manually than 
> anything to do with full circle ringing.  
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> The first and third lines are identical and 8 long, 2nd and 4th are 
> same length at 6 long. 2nd line ends with ascending notes that imply 
> it must continue and 4th ends on base note thus completing it.  A lot 
> of tunes have structures similar to this.
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> A tune of this sort in a church context might have been used as a 
> setting for the verse of a psalm. 
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> Tony might like to concert this into conventional musical notation 
> and then try to search for it, or ask the question on a musicology 
> forum.  There may be options for variants, depending on what is known 
> about the actual notes of the 4 bells which may not have been tuned 
> to the modern diatonic scale.
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> Richard Johnston
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