In a modern instrument), rather the real difficulty comes in controlling The delay between striking the note and the sound of the bell (that is minimal There are two large centers of carillon study: the University of MichiganĪt Ann Arbor, and at Berkeley. In North America, while there is no national school, ThereĪre national schools in The Netherlands (Amersfoort), Belgium (Mechelen),Īnd France (Douai). Latter part of the 20th century, become a true concert instrument. A modernĬarillon is capable of extraordinary sensitivity to touch and has, in the There are close to 200 instruments in North America alone,Īnd the performers are frequently superb virtuosi on the instrument. Is found throughout the world and is experiencing a real golden age at this Originally from Belgium and The Netherlands, the carillon Jeff Davis, the university carillonist of Berkeley, enlightened me about the Dynamics is possible because the amount of force applied, controls His fist to depress the clavier's wooden keys and his feet to control the The instrument is built aroundĪ number of bells in a church-tower and with an ingenious system of leversĪnd wires the player is able to let the differently tuned bells ring using It is not that familiar to a larger audience. 40 (Library of Leuven?)(Folie des Spanie)Ī small introduction of the carillon as an instrument might be handy because 1756) Les Folies d'Espagne (theme and double followed by 12 variations) Written down, transcribed or recorded? Anonymous for carillon (in dutch:īeiaard) (Ms. Which versions of the later Folia have been The Pico search-facility of the homepage (where the entire site will be searched for hits)īut here all of the context within the realm of the chapter 'alphabetical composers' will be The last function can also be achieved by Them easily in printed form), or to search a particular word or phrase in the browser (in the menu-browser: edit, search). (so no fancy colors here but only black letters, and hyperlinks are just underlined to distinguish The purpose of this page is to make it easy for printing the entire listing of composers Which versions of La Folia have been written down,

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