[r-t] Quarters of cyclic major

[Simon Gay]

On 04/12/2014 13:07, Richard Smith wrote:
> Hayden Charles wrote:
>
>> Simon Gay wrote on 04/12/2014 12:06:
>>> There is one in an email from me to the list some time ago. It's buried
>>> in an email about compositional ideas that give peals of maximus and
>>> quarters of major. Maybe you can find it, or I can resend when I get
>>> back to my office.
>>
>> Simon's message was sent on 21 March 2014 if anyone is looking.
>
> And his composition was:
>
> 1400 Spliced Major (4m)
> S.J.Gay
>              2345678
> -------------------
> Norwich     4263857
> Battersea   3527486
> Hull        6482735
> Hull        5738264
> Battersea   8674523
> Norwich     7856342
> Oxford DLB  8735264
> Oxford DLB  7823456
> -------------------
> 7 part
>
> Nice idea, but the methods are far too dull for my taste, and the
> frontworks are pretty lacking in music.  There's one run off the front
> in each lead of Hull, two (next to each other at a dodge) in Battersea,
> and none in Norwich. Surely it must be possible to find methods which
> are both more interesting and more musical?
>
> RAS
>
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I'm sure you can do better with the methods. I wanted something easy to 
ring on handbells (although we haven't got around to trying it yet).

Simon