David Bruce Composer | Why Composers Love Bells @DBruce | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 2 hours ago.
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In this video I talk about Bells (a lot) and the influence Bells and Bell music have had on Composers. Why do we love them?

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Research
Two great posts by Ethan Iverson : Red's Bells ethaniverson.com/reds-bells
Mccoy Tyner's revolution ethaniverson.com/mccoy-tyners-revolution
The Sound of Bells research by Bill Hibberts hibberts.co.uk/index.htm including a full PhD on how partials affect perception of pitch.

Videos

Great video on the mathematics of Bell Ringing youtube.com/watch?v=3lyDCUKsWZs

Jason Aryeh Research Project. Kpanlogo dance from the Ga tribe in Ghana
youtube.com/watch?v=MGZ9rDoMEs4

Nigerian musicians youtube.com/watch?v=RVwJTXz7j98
Slovenian Bell Ringing youtube.com/watch?v=-_kifBBfOdc
Cambridge Bell Ringers youtube.com/watch?v=Of-T3T-dwws

Jonathan Harvey Mortuos Plango, Vivos Voco
youtube.com/watch?v=0T-H-fVlHE0
Documentary on the Harvey piece youtube.com/watch?v=5r_K7roZCWo

Wells Cathedral singing Eric Whitacre youtube.com/watch?v=knJtRUamoAk
Ligeti's Fem performed by Christina McMaster youtube.com/watch?v=-Y2SCXymLCw
Parsifal Grail Bells Experiment youtube.com/watch?v=5SvuGtaU3Co
Mussorgsky Boris Godunov youtube.com/watch?v=ffwIs1qMkV4

Marin Marais: Sonnerie de Ste Genevieve du Mont de Paris
youtube.com/watch?v=Z8okJenXuRk
Bell Tuning youtube.com/watch?v=qD9tSWzW7vs
Claves of Africa Billy Martin youtube.com/watch?v=6sfEySXzGbs
The Ghana Project 2013 has some great Ghana recordings youtube.com/watch?v=kMhyohZ-6cY
12 Tone - The World's Most Popular Rhythm youtube.com/watch?v=Ye7d5mPNfYY
Shostakovich 11 youtube.com/watch?v=czD6cHr-PMM
Wagner Parsifal Transformation Music youtube.com/watch?v=Ysm44rqhLss