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Title: Church Bells May Ring--The Tintinnabulation Thread
Post by: JK on January 09, 2020, 03:06:19 AM
I'd been prevaricating for a while about where to start this topic, whether it should be here or in "General Music Discussion". But at the end of the day (sometimes literally) church bells serve an extramusical purpose.

I'd been looking for a video of the bells in a particular church when I bumped into this Sunday morning peal at St Vitus Cathedral in Prague:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeLagctSKzs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vitus_Cathedral (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Vitus_Cathedral)

Since then I've found others, to be posted in due course. All contributions welcome, folks. ;)


Title: Re: Church Bells May Ring--The Tintinnabulation Thread
Post by: JK on January 10, 2020, 04:43:30 AM
This is the next one I found, from a city we've actually visited, Cologne in Germany, where Nico was born. The Cathedral's wiki page includes fascinating information about the bells and their history. What a stupendous wall of sound! ::)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2JlI-NXV_A

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cologne_Cathedral)


Title: Re: Church Bells May Ring--The Tintinnabulation Thread
Post by: JK on January 11, 2020, 06:07:46 AM
This one is closer to home. Listening to it, beginning with silence and ending with silence, I can't help feeling it would be equally at home as a minimal music process in the "Ambient Music" topic.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz5_q4WVXxs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote_of_Sint-Laurenskerk_(Rotterdam) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grote_of_Sint-Laurenskerk_(Rotterdam))


Title: Re: Church Bells May Ring--The Tintinnabulation Thread
Post by: JK on January 12, 2020, 03:08:37 AM
We visited Vienna some years ago and attended our best-ever performance of Mozart's Requiem as part of a church service. A wonderful vibrant city, well worth a second visit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYNnGXoAS4M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stephen%27s_Cathedral,_Vienna (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Stephen%27s_Cathedral,_Vienna)


Title: Re: Church Bells May Ring--The Tintinnabulation Thread
Post by: JK on January 13, 2020, 02:55:06 AM
We attended Urbi et Orbi in St Peter's Square in 1985, so we must have heard these magnificent bells chiming:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Pr5DZ9WJpE

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica


Title: Re: Church Bells May Ring--The Tintinnabulation Thread
Post by: JK on January 14, 2020, 03:36:42 AM
Never been to Heilbronn (I had to look it up). That's a part of Germany we have yet to visit. Looks like a nice place.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dpKANP1q3w

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Kilian%27s_Church,_Heilbronn


Title: Re: Church Bells May Ring--The Tintinnabulation Thread
Post by: JK on January 15, 2020, 05:37:03 AM
Never been to Osnabrück either. One day perhaps...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSL-kw0Jkbg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Cathedral,_Osnabrück (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Cathedral,_Osnabrück)