Singing bronze

Luc Rombouts • ebook • pdf

• Samenvatting
  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 World War, carillon music has become popular in the United States, where it adds a spiritual dimension to public parks and university campuses. Singing Bronze opens up the fascinating world of the carillon to the reader. It tells the great stories of European and American carillon history: the quest for the perfect musical bell, the fate of carillons in times of revolt and war, the role of patrons such as John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Herbert Hoover in the development of American carillon culture, and the battle between singing bronze and carillon electronics. Richly illustrated with original photographs and etchings, Singing Bronze tells how people developed, played, and enjoyed bell music. With this book, a fascinating history that is yet little known is made available for a wide public.
  
  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 World War, carillon music has become popular in the United States, where it adds a spiritual dimension to public parks and university campuses. 'Singing Bronze' opens up the fascinating world of the carillon to the reader. It tells the great stories of European and American carillon history: the quest for the perfect musical bell, the fate of carillons in times of revolt and war, the role of patrons such as John D. Rockefeller Jr. and Herbert Hoover in the development of American carillon culture, and the battle between singing bronze and carillon electronics. Richly illustrated with original photographs and etchings, Singing Bronze tells how people developed, played, and enjoyed bell music. With this book, a fascinating history that is yet little known is made available for a wide public.
• Productinformatie
  Binding : PDF
  Auteur : Luc Rombouts
  Bestandstype : PDF
  Distributievorm : Ebook (digitaal)
  Aantal pagina's : Afhankelijk van e-reader
  Beveiliging : Geen   Informatie 
  Uitgeverij : Leuven University Press
  ISBN : 9789461661814
  Datum publicatie : 05-2014
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  Introduction PART 1 – BELL CULTURES IN ANTIQUITY AND THE MIDDLE AGES Chapter 1 – The magic of old bells A fruit with pith A world of sounds Made in China Jingle Bells Bellmen Chapter 2 – The time of God The daily call to prayer Europe of Bells The appearance of the medieval bell Church doctrine and popular belief Tolling for political ends Chapter 3 – The time of man A day in the city Tolling for special events New bell casting techniques The bell-founder in action Chapter 4 – The bondage of time Clocks in monasteries and cathedrals Measuring time in the open air The signal becomes music PART 2 – THE OLD CARILLON ART Chapter 5 – A new musical instrument Making music with bells The terms beiaard and carillon Further development of the new musical instrument The first founders of carillon bells Chapter 6 – Carillon music in a divided land Why in the Low Countries? Good and bad songs Bells as commodity The oldest carillon books Chapter 7 – Pure bells A blind nobleman with a keen sense of hearing François Hemony The Hemonys’ secret Pieter Hemony The Hemony legacy Chapter 8 – Carillon music at the court The successors of the Hemonys The carillons of Peter the Great Carillons for the young Prussians Royal extravagance in Portugal Chapter 9 – The Bach of the carillon Peter Vanden Gheyn, monk and entrepreneur Matthias Vanden Gheyn, virtuoso carillonneur Andreas Jozef Vanden Gheyn, talented bell-founder The descendants of the Vanden Gheyns Chapter 10 – Panorama of the old carillon art The bells The automatic mechanism Manual playing The carillonneurs The carillon repertoire The audience The fate of the French Low Countries PART 3 – THE NEW CARILLON ART Chapter 11 – National Carillon Carillon music riding the waves of politics The confiscation of bells in the Southern Low Countries Gradual restoration of the bell stock The Northern Republic in the French era Napoleon’s bell Chapter 12 – The carillon as romantic symbol The carillon, an old instrument Literary interest in bells and carillons The carillon at the service of nationalism Chapter 13 – In search of the sound of the past Bell-founding in the 19th century Innovations in keyboard construction Rediscovery of the art of bell tuning Chapter 14 – A soul in peace, among the stars A carillonneur with an interest in technique Enchanting Monday evenings The vision of the master An American much interested in carillons Chapter 15 – The broken bells of Flanders War rages over Belgium The voice of fallen carillons Carillon war in the Netherlands Bells of victory Chapter 16 – Memorial bells A school for carillonneurs Carillon sounds across the Atlantic Rockefeller and his Belgian carillonneurs The race for bigger and heavier Contours of a new carillon culture New carillons in other parts of the world Chapter 17 – New carillon construction in the Old Country Belgian and English influence in the Netherlands Protectionist reflexes in Belgium Malaise among the Belgian bell-founders Belgian carillons in the United States The Mechelen carillon school during the interwar period Chapter 18 – ‘The bells fight with us’ Nazi bells Carillon music in occupied territory The confiscation of bells in Europe Liberation Chapter 19 – Dutch manufacture versus Carillon Americana The return of the bells Reconstruction in the Low Countries A carillon without bells Carillon battle in the Vatican pavilion Chapter 20 – Innovations in the Old and the New World American Beauty The American carillon movement Acid rain in Europe Using the computer Carillon music in the East Chapter 21 – Panorama of the new carillon art The carillons of the world Carillon organizations Carillonneurs and their audience The diversity of carillon music A future for the carillon Sources and acknowledgements Notes Bibliography Origin of the illustrations Indices
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