Re: Question on compositions

["Don Morrison" <dfm ringing org>]

On Dec 3, 2007 7:50 PM, Lillian Yiyuan <lillie yiyuan gmail com> wrote:
> I am not a change ringinger, but I am working on a project involving 
> change
> ringing, and have a question. That is, is there a link which clearly
> explains the rules for the composition format for change ringing,

No, I'm afraid there isn't. Partly it's because there isn't just one
format, but that's kind of a cop-out. There certainly could be
something that explained the four or five most common sorts of ways of
presenting compositions. Best bet, I think, is looking at the
following books:

  _Change Ringing_ by Wilfred Wilson

 _A Handbook of Composition_ by John Leary

If you are associated with MIT, you'll easily find the former in the
Music Library. Otherwise I'm sure it'll be easy to get by
inter-library loan. The latter may be a bit more difficult to locate.

-- 
 Don Morrison <dfm ringing org>, <dfm2 cmu edu>
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