[r-t] Compositional help requested

Don Morrison dfm at mv.com
Wed Sep 6 21:29:42 UTC 2006


On 9/5/06, Philip Earis <pje24 at cantab.net> wrote:
> I've been messing around with a compositional idea
...
> Right, now for various reasons I'm trying to produce a simple peal
> composition that contains self-contained blocks of Bristol Max, Cambridge
> Max and Stedman Cinques in (very roughly) similar length blocks.  For my
> Bristol section, I'd like to start with the cyclic composition above.
> Following this, for the rest of the peal I want 'conventional' music and
> simple callings (tenors together for the surprise and a
> 'tittums'/handstrokes combo for the Stedman).


This version retains Philip's maximus section unchanged:


5,129 Spliced Cinques and Maximus
1234567890ET
_________________________________
167890ET2345                       SSBB
10ET23456789                       SSBB
134567890ET2                       SSBB
17890ET23456                       SSBB
1ET234567890                       SSBB
14567890ET23                       SSBB
1890ET234567                       SSBB
1T234567890E                       SSBB
1567890ET234                       SSBB
190ET2345678                       SSBB
1452367890ET          W, H         SSBB.BBB.
132456                W,sH         Bristol
154263            sM,sW,sH         Cambridge
132465            M,     H         Cambridge
164523            M,  W            Cambridge
12436578E90    1.s5.6.7.s14.19     Stedman
1324                      18       Stedman
1432                      18       Stedman
1234                     s18       Stedman
1423                      18       Stedman
1342                      18       Stedman
3245618709E  2.6.7.s9.s13.s15.19   Stedman
352461                    18       Stedman
345261                    18       Stedman
321465                    18.19    Stedman
2431                s7.   18       Stedman
2143                      18       Stedman
_________________________________
Contains 1,872 Bristol Surprise Maximus, 1,585 Stedman Cinques, 1,584
Cambridge Surprise Maximus, and 88 Slink Differential Little Place
Maximus (S), with 23 changes of method and all the work of every
method for every bell.


or for a more entertaining finish, that is arguably more straightforward,
despite turning the back bells a little more:


5,129 Spliced Cinques and Maximus
1234567890ET
_______________________________
167890ET2345                     SSBB
10ET23456789                     SSBB
134567890ET2                     SSBB
17890ET23456                     SSBB
1ET234567890                     SSBB
14567890ET23                     SSBB
1890ET234567                     SSBB
1T234567890E                     SSBB
1567890ET234                     SSBB
190ET2345678                     SSBB
1452367890ET          W, H       SSBB.BBB.
132456                W,sH       Bristol
154263            sM,sW,sH       Cambridge
132465            M,     H       Cambridge
164523            M,  W          Cambridge
12436578E90    1.s5.6.7.s14.19   Stedman
1324                      18     Stedman
1432                      18     Stedman
1234                     s18     Stedman
1423                      18     Stedman
1342                      18     Stedman
1342657809E      2.    s15       Stedman
13426587E90      2.s13.s15       Stedman
1342658709E      2.    s15       Stedman
3214          s1.  s7.s10.18     Stedman
2431               s7.    18     Stedman
2143                      18     Stedman
_______________________________
Contains 1,872 Bristol Surprise Maximus, 1,585 Stedman Cinques, 1,584
Cambridge Surprise Maximus, and 88 Slink Differential Little Place
Maximus (S), with 23 changes of method and all the work of every
method for every bell.







-- 
Don Morrison <dfm at mv.com>
"The enemy of art is the absence of limitations."  -- Orson Welles




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