John Marsh in Amsterdam - the 1760's
from The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), page 18:
In the course of these peregrinations the amazing passion for chimes & carillons again struck me, most of the churches (which are very numerous here) having them, at some of which there was a tinkling of bells every 5 minutes, except at the quarters, when a small part of a tune was play'd, & a whole one 3 or more times over every hour, so that reckoning the variation of time in the different clocks, there were scarce 3 minutes together without a tinkling of bells to be heard somewhere, besides the tolling for prayers & funerals.
cite as
John Marsh, The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828). In John Marsh, and Brian Robins (ed.), The John Marsh Journals: The Life and Times of a Gentleman Composer (1752-1828), volume - (Stuyvesant, New York, 1998), p. 18. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1394648745590 accessed: 9 February, 2025
Listeners
Experience Information
Date/Time | the 1760's |
Medium | live |
Listening Environment | in the company of others, outdoors, in public |
Notes
Experience took place whilst Marsh was visiting The Netherlands.
Originally submitted by iepearson on Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:25:45 +0000