[r-t] Composing spliced treble-dodging major

[King, Peter R]

On the subject of software to assist in putting together compositions of
spliced I'd like to mention Philip Saddleton's SCAMP (available from his
website).  Providing you have the list of lead head types you want and
calls it will help you select those methods which will give you a true
composition (there are also ways of contolling the musical content,
which I haven't really worked out yet but I'm sure PABS would give
guidance to anyone interested). It is certainly a very effective way to
put together compositions of say 23ATW. It is perhaps less useful if you
have a set of methods in mind that you wish to splice together (although
you can limit the methods selection by editing the methods file), but a
great little tool anyway (& free!)

Peter

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ringing-theory-bounces at bellringers.net 
> [mailto:ringing-theory-bounces at bellringers.net] On Behalf Of 
> Graham John
> Sent: 04 August 2005 23:22
> To: ringing-theory at bellringers.net
> Subject: RE: [r-t] Composing spliced treble-dodging major
> 
> 
> >From what William says, he has worked out how to compose the 
> same way that
> most composers have i.e. by self-study. He can produce 
> touches of spliced to
> achieve the effect he wants, and can check whether they are 
> true using his
> friend's proving program. This is a great start.
> 
> The fact is that composing spliced DOES involve a lot of 
> trial by error, and
> IS an inefficient and time-consuming process. Before 
> computers, composers
> used cross falseness tables and this process is explained in 
> John Leary's
> book (and an earlier one by Giles Thompson if you can get 
> hold of it). This
> is sort of OK for two methods, but after that it gets painfully
> time-consuming. Chris Kippin used a collating system 
> involving fragments of
> paper and envelopes to produce great results for Spliced 
> Surprise Royal. But
> he must have been very patient.
> 
> For efficiency you need a good program to help you. So in a nutshell,
> William needs a better program than the one he using - one which is
> interactive, so he can see what is false as he tries things 
> out. There are
> not many available, so either you have to write your own, or 
> look at the
> handful which are commercially available, such as Ringing 
> Master. It has a
> free limited functionality download available from
> 
http://www.ringingmaster.co.uk

I also suggest he has a look at Elf, MBD's online spliced composition
generator at

http://www.bronze-age.com/elf/index.html

Finally, the Ringing Roadshow in Newbury on 10 September will have many
of
the available programs available for demonstration, as well as lots of
books
to browse. 

Graham


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