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Singing Bronze : A History of Carillon Music /
The carillon, the world's largest musical instrument, originated in the 16th century when inhabitants of the Low Countries started to produce music on bells in church and city towers. Today, carillon music still fills the soundscape of cities in Belgium and the Netherlands. Since the First Worl...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Dutch |
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Leuven :
Lipsius Leuven,
2014.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction; PART ONE
- BELL CULTURES IN ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES; CHAPTER 1
- The magic of old bells; CHAPTER 2
- The time of God; CHAPTER 3
- The time of man; CHAPTER 4
- The bondage of time; PART TWO
- THE OLD CARILLON ART; CHAPTER 5
- A new musical instrument; CHAPTER 6
- Carillon music in a divided land; CHAPTER 7
- Pure bells; CHAPTER 8
- Carillon music at the court; CHAPTER 9
- The Bach of the carillon; CHAPTER 10
- Panorama of the old carillon art; PART THREE
- THE NEW CARILLON ART; CHAPTER 11
- National Carillon; CHAPTER 12
- The carillon as romantic symbol.
- CHAPTER 13
- In search of the sound of the pastCHAPTER 14
- A soul in peace, among the stars; CHAPTER 15
- The broken bells of Flanders; CHAPTER 16
- Memorial bells; CHAPTER 17
- New carillon construction in the Old Country; CHAPTER 18
- 'The bells fight with us'; CHAPTER 19
- Dutch manufacture versus Carillon Americana; CHAPTER 20
- Innovations in the Old and the New World; CHAPTER 21
- Panorama of the new carillon art; Sources and acknowledgements; Notes; Bibliography; Origin of the illustrations; Indices.