Ringing Bells In Malta

<p>A musical scholar is challenged to find and explore an area different from<br> his colleagues. <br> <br> During the summer of 1972, Dr. Otto Henry, a musicologist in his third<br> year at East Carolina University, accepts an invitation on the spur of the moment, <br> to accompany some old anthropologist friends from Tulane University, to the <br> amazing little Mediterranean island of Malta. His friends have just completed<br> a definitive study of Maltese folk music. However, he is encouraged to find an <br> area of his own. And to stay out of the library!<br> <br> After a few false starts, Henry accidently discovers the significance of the <br> ubiquitous church bells that ring from their stone towers all day long and part<br> of the night. Bells that celebrate the time of day, the season, religious services and occasions; bells that, with their individual tones, rhythms and colors, musically <br> mark off and enhance the times, the days and the seasons of Maltese life. <br> <br> And then, as it turns out, their passing. Henry's daily field notes capture <br> the wonder and majesty of these huge bronze implements, some of which have<br> been melted and re-cast as cannons and then back into bells. <br> <br> Then there are those who ring the bells, a special lot, sometimes a little apart<br> and distant from ordinary folk, but people who are always glad to help explain <br> their lives and duties to a strange inglese with a beard.</p>

• Ringing Bells in Malta, (Hardcover)
• Author: Xlibris
• ISBN: 9781524546014
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2016-09-30
• Page Count: 228