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Tintinnabulation

Postby sluggo » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:38 am

Tintinnabulation
/ˌtɪntɪˌnæbyəˈleɪʃən/ [tin-ti-nab-yuh-ley-shuhn]

Etymology: Dictionary.com says it's a USism of approximately 1825, from tintinnabulary (dated from 1787), familial with tintinnabulatory (1827), and tintinnabulum "small bell" (1398).

Def: The sound of ringing, especially with the characteristic harmonics of bells; from Latin tinnire to ring (whence also tinnitus, the medical term for a high-pitched ringing or buzzing in the ears)

Used as a title in the wonderful groundbreaking nature recording series Environments about 35 years ago (on the other side was "Dawn at New Hope, Pennsylvania"), the vinyl "Tintinnabulation" was a slow-motion sonic parsing of overtones from large bells, intended to be played at any of multiple speeds for different effects (you can't do that with CDs :cry: ).

Why: just a belated salute to the 199th birthday of Edgar Allan Poe (19 Jan 1809):

HEAR the sledges with the bells —
Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight;
Keeping time, time, time,
In a sort of Runic rhyme,
To the
tintinnabulation that so musically wells
From the bells, bells, bells, bells,
Bells, bells, bells —
From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells.

--Poe, The Bells, verse I
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Postby Cacasenno » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:44 am

there are words that are really titillating

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Postby Perry » Mon Jan 21, 2008 11:15 am

a slow-motion sonic parsing of overtones from large bells
One hopes that these were not ominous, the bell tolls for thee, overtones.
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Postby sluggo » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:37 pm

a slow-motion sonic parsing of overtones from large bells
One hopes that these were not ominous, the bell tolls for thee, overtones.
Semi-omniminous at least... back on Friday September 14 2001 when most of the US radio stations interrupted at midday to play a few minutes of mourning bells for the events three days prior, I used this record for WWOZ's airwaves. It really imparted a stately texture beyond the stock footage everybody else was using.

Might call it ... music ominous one?
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Postby sluggo » Mon Jan 21, 2008 12:38 pm

a slow-motion sonic parsing of overtones from large bells
One hopes that these were not ominous, the bell tolls for thee, overtones.
Semi-omniminous at least... back on Friday September 14 2001 when most of the US radio stations interrupted at midday to play a few minutes of mourning bells for the events three days prior, I used this record for WWOZ's airwaves. It really imparted a stately texture beyond the stock footage everybody else was using.

Might call it ... music ominous one?
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Postby gailr » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:54 pm

"Sanctuary! Sanctuary! Sanctuary!"



For some really lovely bells, google Cast in Bronze.
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Postby sluggo » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:56 pm

I don't know what's wrong with the system- I posted just once, and now it won't let me delete either one. :shock:
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Postby gailr » Mon Jan 21, 2008 1:58 pm

Perhaps it found your words worthy of recording twice...

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Postby sluggo » Mon Jan 21, 2008 2:19 pm

Perhaps it found your words worthy of recording twice...
...ya mean one of those reredos?

thanx for the setup :)
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Postby Perry » Mon Jan 21, 2008 3:50 pm

One message was the tone, and the other was the overtone.
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Postby sluggo » Mon Jan 21, 2008 7:43 pm

Now of course, if you put bells on your dog's collar so the burglar can hear it coming, the effect is called Rintintinnabulation.

Apologies to our US-in-the-'50s-deficient viewers
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Postby gailr » Tue Jan 22, 2008 3:05 am

Best in show...sluggo.

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Postby Cacasenno » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:41 am

Now of course, if you put bells on your dog's collar so the burglar can hear it coming, the effect is called Rintintinnabulation.

Apologies to our US-in-the-'50s-deficient viewers
Should you neglet to put the collar on your dog, would that be lassietude?

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Postby gailr » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:57 pm

A ribbon to Cacasenno as well.


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