Studies in Musical History
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Of these, their dimension and number, I shall speak later. At present the utility and history of the bell must engage our attention.
This instrument of percussion, as has been before intimated, has played a most important part in the history of architecture, especially ecclesiastical archi- tecture, and it would be difficult to consider the one without a brief mention of the other. If the bell built the tower, the tower cast the bell. The higher the tower the further would the bell be heard, an...d as the towers grew in height they grew proportionate!)' mas- sive, and the idea was not long in presenting itself of a bell to suit the tower, as well as a tower to suit the bell, for the ever increasing strength of the one warranted a proportionate increase in the weight of the other.
" The introduction of bells is attributed to Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, in Campania, about the year 400, but gi Studies tn Musical History.
there is an epistle of that bishop still extant in which he describes his church, but makes no mention of either tower or bell, yet it is not a little remarkable that the general name for bell was noise or campanae, and hence the word noil, as meaning the sound of a single bell, and campanile, a bell tower.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Of these, their dimension and number, I shall speak later. At present the utility and history of the bell must engage our attention.
This instrument of percussion, as has been before intimated, has played a most important part in the history of architecture, especially ecclesiastical archi- tecture, and it would be difficult to consider the one without a brief mention of the other. If the bell built the tower, the tower cast the bell. The higher the tower the further would the bell be heard, an...d as the towers grew in height they grew proportionate!)' mas- sive, and the idea was not long in presenting itself of a bell to suit the tower, as well as a tower to suit the bell, for the ever increasing strength of the one warranted a proportionate increase in the weight of the other.
" The introduction of bells is attributed to Paulinus, Bishop of Nola, in Campania, about the year 400, but gi Studies tn Musical History.
there is an epistle of that bishop still extant in which he describes his church, but makes no mention of either tower or bell, yet it is not a little remarkable that the general name for bell was noise or campanae, and hence the word noil, as meaning the sound of a single bell, and campanile, a bell tower.
What to read after Studies in Musical History?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Louis S Davis to read onlineMoreLess
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