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García, Laura, Lorena Parra, Blanca Pastor Gomis, Laura Cavallé, Vanesa Pérez Guillén, Herminio Pérez Garrigues, and Jaime Lloret. "Valencia’s Cathedral Church Bell Acoustics Impact on the Hearing Abilities of Bell Ringers." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 16, no. 9 (May 4, 2019): 1564. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16091564.

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Studies on the effect of occupational noise have been widely performed for occupations such as construction workers, workers of factories or even musicians and workers of nightclubs. However, studies on the acoustics of church bells are very scarce and usually reported in languages other than English. In Spain, although the tradition of bell ringers is progressively getting lost, some bell ringers that continue transmitting the tradition remain. Church bells create sound with a large sound pressure level that can be heard from a great distance. However, despite the characteristics of the sound of church bells, bell ringers do not present symptoms of occupational hearing loss unlike musicians and construction workers. To determine the effects of the sound of the church bells on bell ringers, in this paper, an acoustic study of the church bells and a physiological study of the hearing abilities of bell ringers. Results show sound pressure levels reaching 120 dB inside the bell tower. The resulting hearing loss in bell ringers is small considering the great intensity of the sound produced by the bells. This is likely due to the short amount of time that bell ringers are exposed to the sound even if it reaches high sound pressure levels.

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Oleniacz, Grzegorz, Izabela Skrzypczak, Lucjan Ślęczka, Tomasz Świętoń, and Marta Rymar. "Survey of the Urban Bell in the Belfry of St. Trinity Church in Krosno." Reports on Geodesy and Geoinformatics 103, no. 1 (June 27, 2017): 38–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/rgg-2017-0004.

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Abstract Urban is one of the three bells in the belfry of St. Trinity Church in Krosno. It is the largest one, with diameter equal to 1,535 mm and it is commonly considered as one of the largest historical bells in Poland. The total mass of all the three bells is close to 4,200 kilograms, so the dynamic actions produced by swinging have a great effect on the supporting structure and on the tower. However, the exact weight of the biggest bell isn't known, and for safety reasons it should be estimated in order to verify the real dynamic forces affecting the structure. The paper describes the method of Urban bell’s survey using terrestrial laser scanning and a total station as a task to estimate its weight by determining its volume.

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Malinov, Alexander, and Evgeny Davutov. "Reconstruction of bell rings in architectural and urban development planning on the map of Moscow." InterCarto. InterGIS 25, no. 2 (2019): 358–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.35595/2414-9179-2019-2-25-358-369.

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The possibility of reconstructing the bells in the architectural and town planning structure is considered on the example of the city of Moscow. The basis of the Russian cities are a fortress, fortifications, towns and settlements. With the adoption of Christianity, the dominant role in the planning-spatial system of Russian cities belongs to spiritual objects (temples, bell towers, monasteries). Each settlement has its own cathedral church, which is an architectural dominant. It also serves as a compositional and spiritual guide. Russian city becomes the keeper of spiritual values. The warning and the call of the townspeople are conducted from deep antiquity, an important role in this is played by the bells that came to life of the Russian people with the adoption of Christianity at the end of the ХХ century, most likely from Western Europe, and almost immediately became part of Russian culture. With the invention of flat bells for the first time in the world, it is possible to carry out studies of bell ringing in the laboratory. The Moscow bells of the first half of the ХVIII century, decreed by the Dicasteria (spiritual consistory) in 1727, was reconstructed using the method of imposing on the plan of Moscow created by architect Ivan Michurin at 1739 in accordance with the list of temples and monasteries participating in the bells after the Cathedral bells of the Great Assumption Cathedral. The Church of the Resurrection of Christ in Kadashi is located on the main compositional and sentinel axis of Moscow (the Ivan the Great Bell Tower is the Church of the Ascension in the village of Kolomenskoye). New churches are being built, there is a revival of the traditions of the bell ringing — a unique component of Russian culture, which must be integrated into the spiritual life of the city and the Russian tourist practice.

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Bogdanova, Galina, Todor Todorov, and Nikolay Noev. "Digital Repository of Information and Knowledge - Fund “BellKnow”." Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage 1 (September 30, 2011): 91–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.55630/dipp.2011.1.10.

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The aim was to develop an archive containing detailed description of church bells. As an object of cultural heritage the bell has general properties such as geometric dimensions, weight, sound of each of the bells, the pitch of the tone as well as acoustical diagrams obtained using contemporary equipment. The audio, photo and video archive is developed by using advanced technologies for analysis, reservation and data protection.

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Franchuk, Oksana, and Aleksandra Osipova. "Bell Names in the History of the Russian Language (Linguistic and Cultural Aspect)." SHS Web of Conferences 50 (2018): 01018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/shsconf/20185001018.

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The paper considers principles of naming the bells and the main features, according to which the bell could get either name. Scientists believe that to a greater extent the structure of such onym units characterizes the specifics of how the bells were treated in Kievan Rus and the overall attitude of the Russians to them. The study was based on the analysis of the unique catalogue containing linguistic units and reflecting the history of bells, bell ringing and bell casting. The main sources of the study included compiled chronicles, archive materials, register of monastic and temple property, inscriptions on bells, and church charters. The study was conducted through comparative-historical, linguistic and cultural analysis, as well as field analysis within the cognitive stylistics. As a result, 51 bell names and their historical background were analyzed. The authors conclude that the study of linguistic units related to the history of bells and bell ringing in Russia alongside with their casting features will make it possible to bridge the historical knowledge gap and to draw some conclusions on the way the Russians perceive the linguistic worldview of this unique element of the Russian culture.

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Bogdanova, Galina, Kilian Stoffel, Todor Todorov, and Nikolay Noev. "Building OWL Ontology of Unique Bulgarian Bells Using Protégé Platform." Digital Presentation and Preservation of Cultural and Scientific Heritage 2 (September 30, 2012): 161–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.55630/dipp.2012.2.8.

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We describe an ontological representation of data in an archive containing detailed description of church bells. As an object of cultural heritage the bell has general properties such as geometric dimensions, weight, sound of each of the bells, the pitch of the tone as well as acoustical diagrams obtained using contemporary equipment. We use Protégé platform in order to define basic o ntological objects and relations between them.

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Karkocha, Małgorzata. "Dzwony kościelne utracone w czasie II wojny światowej z terenu diecezji kieleckiej. Przyczynek do zagadnienia." Przegląd Nauk Historycznych 13, no. 2 (January 1, 2014): 93–117. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1644-857x.13.02.05.

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The aims of the article is to discuss the losses sustained by the Diocese of Kielce in relation to the sacral bells during the Second World War. This issue was not so far discussed in detail in historical literature. On the basis of available sources (materials stored in the Archive of the Diocese in Kielce) it should be noted, that during the last war the diocese of Kielce lost more than 160 church bells because of the German military requisition and at least a few as a result of the warfare. The highest intensity of the action of confiscation bells by the Nazis were recorded in 1941–1942, after that time it took place only very occasionally. Among the confiscated bells were 43 antique ones, cast before 1900. The most historical bells, as many as five, lost the Parish of Gnojno. The oldest bell, looted by the Germans from the Church dedicated to the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Książ Mały, was cast in 1500. The most of the bells made before 1900 was the work of unknown artists. Only a few of them bear the signature of the craftsman. Bells funded in the interwar period came mostly from the three Polish foundries, that is factories of Felczyński Brothers in Kalush (Kałusz) and Przemyśl, workshop of Karl Gustav Schwabe in Biała near Bielsko and the „Bells Foundry Francis Lott, Michael Dziarski and Company” („Odlewnia Dzwonów Franciszek Lott, Michał Dziarski i Spółka”), located in Pustelnik near Warsaw.

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Rodriguez Suarez, Alex. "Qannūbīn Monastery and the Religious Soundscape of the Maronites in the 16th and 17th Century." Journal of Eastern Christian Studies 74, no. 1-2 (September 29, 2022): 48–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/17831520-20220014.

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Abstract This article discusses the religious soundscape of the Maronites in the 16th and the 17th century as reflected in Western travel accounts that report the use of church bells at Qannūbīn Monastery in Lebanon, the residence of the Maronite patriarch. Bell ringing for religious purposes was actually forbidden in the Ottoman Empire. The Christian communities of the Levant employed a wooden instrument, the semantron, to call the faithful to service. Qannūbīn was an exception. Information provided by pilgrims and travelers sheds light on some of the reasons behind the use of bell ringing in this remote religious foundation. Moreover, I argue that the use of bells at Qannūbīn was related to the close contacts between the Maronite clergy and the Pope of Rome. The former wanted to be in communion with the Roman Church. The use of bell ringing at the patriarchal residence assisted to project a Catholic image by means of sound.

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Loboda, Anastasiya, and Anna Antipenko. "Bells from the tomb 19/2020 on the Eski-Kermen plateau: composition of the material and reconstruction of the manufacturing process." Materials in Archaeology, History and Ethnography of Tauria, XХVII (December 15, 2022): 386–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.29039/2413-189x.2022.27.386-396.

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The given article studies two small bells found in the tomb 19/2020 in the narthex of the single-nave church in block II at Eski-Kermen plateau. These bells have slightly flattened body with a slit and a small ball inside; they are decorated with corrugated transverse stripes. One of the bells is completely preserved, the other is fragmented. The aim of the work was to determine the composition of the metal and the manufacturing technology of the bells. The X-ray fluorescence analysis of the elemental composition of the metal of the bells showed that the items themselves and the ball inside one bell were made of tin-lead bronze. All currently known reconstructions of the manufacturing technology of such products are described, with the most possible one as the making of wax model of bells comprising of two halves and, later, lost wax casting; clay form was also lost.

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Garofalo, Piero, and Giorgio Farabegoli. "Churches without bells in Fascist Italy." Modern Italy 24, no. 3 (January 31, 2019): 245–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mit.2018.48.

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This article examines how Fascism’s economic autarky impacted on church construction in the late 1930s. The shortage of copper in Italy due to sanctions imposed by the League of Nations and the ensuing Italian policy of self-sufficiency led to the installation of loudspeakers instead of bells in newly erected churches. The amplified sound of recordings and of tubular bells could be heard from far greater distances than that of traditional bells. Although these technologies disregarded the Catholic Church’s directives on utilising modern technical equipment in liturgy, their use was tolerated because of the economic circumstances. Indeed, some clergy endorsed these sound systems as a means of modernising the Church and as an act of patriotism. The practice, however, risked conflating ecclesiastical and Fascist broadcasts since the use of loudspeakers for political propaganda was widespread. In one case, the Fascist anthemGiovinezzawas played regularly from a church belfry: after the war, furious citizens destroyed this audio system. The decision by dioceses as to whether to adopt technological alternatives to bells exposed the conflicting positions within the Church towards both modernity and the Regime.

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Bloor, R. H. "Clocks, Bells and Cockerels." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 3, no. 17 (July 1995): 393–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x00000399.

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In the public mind noise is associated more with the sound of twentieth century inventions than the ages old chime of church clocks and the clang of church bells or indeed the crowing of cockerels. The Law Reports give little guidance as to the principles governing the legal liability in the case of nuisance from clocks, bells and cockerels at common law and the circumstances in which an injunction can be obtained to stop them, in contrast to a steady flow of cases arising out of noise created by today's mechanised and industralised society. However, it would appear from recent experience as reported in national newspapers and from the writer's own experience that these issues are very much alive and of interest to practitioners, particularly those who are advising ecclesiastical authorities.

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Perrin, Robert, Benjamin J. Halkon, and Zimu Guo. "(Re-)exploring the normal modes of axisymmetric structures: An English church bell case study." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 154, no. 4_supplement (October 1, 2023): A74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0022843.

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The normal modes of axisymmetric structures are of interest to structural engineers, physicists and musical acousticians. Previously, some of the present authors have made studies of church bells, hand bells, elephant bells, various gongs and rings. Group theoretical arguments have been used, with considerable success, in classifying the normal modes of these structures and in understanding how “beats” arise from split degenerate doublets. It is now pointed out that further information can be obtained from group theory using a variety of additional arguments. In particular, it infers a basic distinction between “in-extensional” and “extensional” types of modes. In the present work, we concentrate on the case of an English church bell, as an example axisymmetric structure, whose normal modes were previously measured in a frequency range of up to about 10 kHz. In that earlier work, the results were analyzed with what was then considered a state-of-the-art finite-element package. We now repeat this exercise with a modern finite-element package to explore the differences between the types of modes and validate the Group theory observations. The agreement with experiment is much improved and some new level of understanding of the spectrum of the bell is achieved.

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KEZHA, Y. "«И КОЛОКОЛЫ СЪИМА У СВЯТЫЯ СОФИЕ»: THE REMOVAL OF THE TEMPLE BELLS IN ANCIENT RUS." Herald of Polotsk State University. Series A. Humanity sciences, no. 2 (July 24, 2023): 30–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.52928/2070-1608-2023-67-2-30-35.

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The article deals with chronicle reports mentioning the removal of temple bells in Ancient Rus in the 11th - early 16th centuries. For the ancient Rus scribe of the 11th-12th centuries, who was guided by the biblical written tradition, bells acted as temple attributes that did not differ significantly from other church relics. The removal of bells from churches (1066/1067, 1146, 1169) is mentioned in the general context of the destruction of ancient Rus churches. The temple ruins themselves (with the exception of the report of 1146) are identified with the sacking of the Jerusalem Temple. During the period of the XIV-XVI centuries. the cathedral bell was a symbol of the urban community, which was a full-fledged political force. The removal of the main ("veche") bell by the conquerors testified to the elimination of veche freedoms and the political independence of the city.

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Rutherford, William F. "Don't ring the church bells just yet." Air Medical Journal 15, no. 3 (July 1996): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1067-991x(96)90033-4.

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Vogt, Patrik, Lutz Kasper, and Jan-Philipp Burde. "More sound of church bells: Authors' correction." Physics Teacher 54, no. 1 (January 2016): 52–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.4937976.

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Chinea Cáceres, José Lorenzo. "Una campana de Gaspar Díaz en la isla de El Hierro." Revista de Historia Canaria, no. 206 (2024): 93–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.25145/j.histcan.2024.206.05.

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The inventory of bells on the island of El Hierro has made it possible to unveil a new instrument by the foundryman Gaspar Díaz, dating from around 1589. This bell, from the church of San Pedro Apóstol de El Mocanal, is important, as it is one of the few surviving bells made in the Canary Islands at the end of the 16th century by a possible local found-ryman. This study focuses on the formal analysis of this piece and its contextualization in the production of the artisan Gaspar Díaz, established in Santa Cruz de La Palma in the last third of that century.

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A. Hibbert, William, David B. Sharp, Shahram Taherzadeh, and Robert Perrin. "Partial Frequencies and Chladni’s Law in Church Bells." Open Journal of Acoustics 04, no. 02 (2014): 70–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oja.2014.42007.

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Hibbert, William A., Shahram Taherzadeh, and David B. Sharp. "Virtual Pitch and Pitch Shifts in Church Bells." Open Journal of Acoustics 07, no. 03 (2017): 52–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4236/oja.2017.73006.

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Perrin, R., T. Charnley, and G. M. Swallowe. "On the tuning of church and carillon bells." Applied Acoustics 46, no. 1 (1995): 83–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0003-682x(95)93952-e.

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Aslanyan, Anna. "London Surprise Major." TDR: The Drama Review 67, no. 4 (December 2023): 167–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1054204323000485.

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Bell ringing in Britain has featured in sociohistorical studies, but it has never been analyzed in detail as a variety of mass spectacle. The practice takes especially interesting forms in London, a city where the ringing of church bells has been part of everyday life for centuries. Grounded in physics, economics, and human geography, ringing is a unique kind of immersive site-specific performance, whose significance is best understood through pivoting to topography and history.

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Watkin, Thomas Glyn. "A Happy Noise to Hear? Church Bells and the Law of nuisance." Ecclesiastical Law Journal 4, no. 19 (July 1996): 545–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0956618x00002532.

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In the July 1995 number of the Ecclesiastical Law Journal, Mr R. H. Bloor presented an interesting account of recent difficulties encountered by the parish church of St Mary's Belton with regard to the chiming of its church clock. In his article, ‘Clocks, Bells and Cockerels’, he took occasion to consider briefly the law relating to bells as a noise nuisance and usefully brought some unreported cases to the attention of readers of the Journal. He did not however consider one question which is, it is submitted, of peculiar importance to ecclesiastical lawyers, a question raised by the present author in a letter to The Times on 22 October 1994, namely whether the obligation of clerics to ring a bell under ecclesiastical and canon law can be a defence to a complaint of nuisance for the noise caused. Nor did he examine the differences which exist, particularly with regard to defences, depending upon whether the complaint is one of public, private or statutory nuisance. The present paper is therefore offered as a discussion of these points and as a wider review of the authorities relating to them.

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Gorbatov, Aleksey V., and Georgy A. Demchenko. "BELLS AND BELL-RINGING TRADITION IN KUZNETSK LAND: HISTORY AND PRESENT TIME." Vestnik Tomskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Kul'turologiya i iskusstvovedenie, no. 41 (2021): 198–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.17223/22220836/41/16.

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The article is devoted to the history of bells and bell-ringing art on the territory of present Kemerovo Region. The topicality of the article is in considering this phenomenon as a part of the historical and cultural heritage. The unique technology and ringing art, the Orthodox faith and a special way of life of the Russian people and bells joined in the history of bells. Bell ringing has developed into a large-scale, national phenomenon; the state and the Russian society recognize its aesthetic value. Based on archival documents, materials of the periodical press of pre-revolutionary, Soviet, and modern periods, research works of historians and ethnographers, the authors demonstrate the formation of the bell-instrumental image of the region and highlight different historical periods: from the construction of the first bell towers, the complete prohibition of bell ringing to their revival, and the formation of new traditions. It is concluded that the situation with bells and ringing traditions is significantly dependent on the Church policy of the state in a certain historical period. It is specific that, throughout the study period, most of the bell ringers received and receive a small monetary reward for their obedience, and therefore, many of them tend to leave this job as soon as possible, replacing it with a more paid one. The current situation is certain not to contribute to the development and improvement of bell-ringing art. Nowadays, a small number of bells and the lack of its own bell production in Kuzbass region cannot contribute to solving the problem of restoring the Russian bell tradition. For the full revival of the bell-ringing tradition in the region, it is also necessary to have a competent complete set of bell funds, which today can hardly be described as organized and systematic. Bell rebounds are packed mainly at random. However, the situation has changed in recent years as instruments with planned ringing have got used. The authors make a conclusion about the necessity of the analysis of bell funds, their classification, and the identification of accounting and certification issues. Today, the revival of the art of bell ringing is based on both the preservation of old traditions and the formation of new ones. An important role in the development and popularization of the bell tradition is played by the activities of Orthodox bell ringers’ courses, festivals, exhibitions, master classes. All this forms the bell-instrumental image of Kuzbass region.

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Parker, Murray, and Dirk H. R. Spennemann. "Contemporary Sound Practices: Church Bells and Bell Ringing in New South Wales, Australia." Heritage 4, no. 3 (August 12, 2021): 1754–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage4030098.

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As a social species, humans have developed soundscapes that surround, and to some extent circumscribe, their daily existence. The concept of aural heritage, its conceptualization and its management represent a rapidly expanding area of research, covering aspects of both natural and human heritage. However, there have been no contemporary regional or supra-regional studies that examine the nature of sound making in Christian religious settings, nor the extent to which it is still used. This paper presents the results of a survey into the presence of bells and bell ringing practices among five major Christian denominations in New South Wales, and examines to what extent bell ringing is still practiced and what factors may determine any differentiation. In doing so, it provides an objective basis from which to investigate future changes in bell ringing practices, and provides a solid foundation with reference to aural heritage of sound in a religious setting.

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Zahra, Fathimatuz, Muhammad Hasan Basri, Zainul Arifin, and Anista Ika Surachman. "Subuh Orchestra of Religious Harmony of Baitunnur Mosque and Santo Yusuf Catholics Church in Pati Central Java." FIKRAH 10, no. 1 (June 21, 2022): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.21043/fikrah.v10i1.12065.

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<p class="07KatakunciKeywords"><span lang="EN-US">This article discusses religious harmony in Pati, Central Java, related to mosques and churches in one location. This harmony was awakening through the combination of the sound of church bells and the sound of the recitation in the mosque using loudspeakers to create harmony between the two houses of worship. Purposing of this article was to narrate and discuss the harmony that occurred in Pati by conducting interviews with Catholic religious leaders, Muslim religious leaders, and residents of Arab, indigenous, and Chinese descent. This study focuses on three questions (a) How are religious symbols in religious harmony; (b) How to build harmony with religious symbols in the form of church bells and adhan); (c) How the Subuh orchestra as a symbolic sacred call for people who perform rituals in the mosque called the call to prayer and in churches use church bells to signify the morning sacrament. The result of this research was that religious people build religious harmony through the dawn of this orchestra, making this simple culture a unifying tool for diversity in society.</span></p>

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Wu, Xianyou, and Yi Zheng. "Symbolic Sounds in Ulysses." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 8, no. 1 (January 1, 2018): 61. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0801.08.

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Reading Ulysses, all kinds of sounds impinge on our ears from all sides. They may be human or nonhuman, loud or low, soft or rough, funny or ridiculous. This paper will explore the different symbolic or metaphorical implications of two distinctive sounds: the church bells and the jingling sound. It seems that few Joycean scholars have attended to Joyce’s manipulating of sounds and their unique stylistic and aesthetic effects, and this paper from a perspective of cognitive phonetics and cognitive psychology, finds that the church bells are the overtone of death, and the jingling sound as well as the tapping sound reveals one major theme of the novel: sexuality.

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Jakubowski, Andrzej, Francesca Fiorentini, and Ewa Manikowska. "Memory, Cultural Heritage and Community Rights." International Human Rights Law Review 5, no. 2 (November 23, 2016): 274–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22131035-00502005.

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For centuries church bells have constituted an inherent element of religious and social life. Due to their artistic and pecuniary value, the bells have also been subjected to forced removal and/or pillage. This article discusses the role of church bells as vehicles of the collective memory and cultural identity of selected ethnic and religious communities in Europe which were deeply affected by the post-World War ii territorial arrangements: namely, the Italian, Slovenian and Croatian communities of Istria and Ukrainians re-settled from Poland. Against the background of these cases it explores the clashes within various layers of international law dealing with culture and cultural heritage: humanitarian law, state succession, protection of the integrity of cultural heritage sites, and human rights. Viewed through such a lens, some suggestions are offered on how to overcome these conflicts in order to enforce the cultural rights of communities and protect their right to enjoy their material and spiritual heritage.

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BLAKEBOROUGH, A. "AN ANALYTICAL RESPONSE OF CHURCH BELLS TO EARTHQUAKE EXCITATION." Journal of Earthquake Engineering 5, no. 1 (January 2001): 69–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13632460109350386.

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Nadolski, M. "The Evaluation of Mechanical Properties of High-tin Bronzes." Archives of Foundry Engineering 17, no. 1 (March 1, 2017): 127–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/afe-2017-0023.

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Abstract High-tin bronzes are used for church bells and concert bells (carillons). Therefore, beside their decorative value, they should also offer other functional properties, including their permanence and good quality of sound. The latter is highly influenced by the structure of bell material, i.e. mostly by the presence of internal porosity which interferes with vibration of the bell waist and rim, and therefore should be eliminated. The presented investigations concerning the influence of tin content ranging from 20 to 24 wt% on mechanical properties of high-tin bronzes allowed to prove the increase in hardness of these alloys with simultaneous decrease in the tensile and the impact strengths (Rm and KV, respectively) for the increased tin content. Fractures of examined specimens, their porosity and microstructures were also assessed to explain the observed regularities. A reason of the change in the values of mechanical properties was revealed to be the change in the shape of α-phase crystals from dendritic to acicular one, and generation of grain structure related to the increased Sn content in the alloy.

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Freeman, Kirrily. "“The bells, too, are fighting”: The Fate of European Church Bells in the Second World War." Canadian Journal of History 43, no. 3 (December 2008): 417–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/cjh.43.3.417.

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Toelle, Jutta. "Todas las naciones han de oyrla: Bells in the Jesuit reducciones of Early Modern Paraguay." Journal of Jesuit Studies 3, no. 3 (June 8, 2016): 437–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22141332-00303005.

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The essay focuses on the role of bells in the Jesuit reducciones. Within the contested sound world of the mission areas, bells played an important role as their sounds formed a sense of space, regulated social life, and established an audibility of time and order. Amongst all the other European sounds which Catholic missionaries had introduced by the seventeenth century—church songs, prayers in European languages, and instrumental music—bells functioned especially well as signals of the omnipotent and omnipresent Christian God and as instruments in the establishing of acoustic hegemony. Taking the Conquista espiritual by Antonio Ruiz de Montoya (1639) as its main source, the essay points to several references to bells, as objects of veneration, as part of a flexible material culture, and, most importantly, as weapons in the daily fight with non-Christians, the devil, and demons.

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Allen, Danielle. "A Schedule of Boundaries: An Exploration, Launched From the Water-Clock, of Athenian Time." Greece and Rome 43, no. 2 (October 1996): 157–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/gr/43.2.157.

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Have you ever stopped to think what life would be like without your alarm clock, without church bells ringing out the hour, without clocks in lecture rooms? How differently would you understand the world?

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Zolli, Daniel M., and Christopher Brown. "Bell on Trial: The Struggle for Sound after Savonarola." Renaissance Quarterly 72, no. 1 (2019): 54–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/rqx.2018.6.

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In June 1498, the Florentine government publicly punished and exiled the Piagnona, the lone bell of the church of San Marco, for its role in defending Girolamo Savonarola during the April siege that led to the preacher's execution. Drawing on new evidence, this essay offers the most complete account of this still poorly understood chapter in Renaissance history, examining its complex and conflicting motives. At the same time, the punishment of the Piagnona, and struggle for its return, affords uncommon insight into the culture's deepest structures of thinking about what bells were, and who had the legal authority to adjudicate their fate.

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Arnold, John H., and Caroline Goodson. "Resounding Community: The History and Meaning of Medieval Church Bells." Viator 43, no. 1 (January 2012): 99–130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1484/j.viator.1.102544.

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Fergusson, David. "Karl Barth's Doctrine of Creation: Church-bells beyond the stars." International Journal of Systematic Theology 18, no. 4 (September 29, 2016): 414–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ijst.12144.

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Kiser, Brenda H., and David Lubman. "The soundscape of church bells ‐ sound community or culture clash." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, no. 5 (May 2008): 3807. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2935517.

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Garceau, Michelle E. "‘I call the people.’ Church bells in fourteenth-century Catalunya." Journal of Medieval History 37, no. 2 (June 2011): 197–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jmedhist.2011.02.002.

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Parker, Murray, and Dirk H. R. Spennemann. "For Whom the Bell Tolls: Practitioners’ Views on Bell-Ringing Practice in Contemporary Society in New South Wales (Australia)." Religions 11, no. 8 (August 17, 2020): 425. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rel11080425.

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For centuries, religious buildings have been using bells to call the faithful to prayer. Bell-ringing activity on church premises does not serve a purely religious function, however, as people in the community may perceive this activity secularly, attributing their own meanings and significances towards these sounds. If bell ringing (or the actual sound) were found to have great significance to a specific community, denomination, or a regionality bracket, this may have future implications in any management of these resources. There is a need to hear the voices of the actual practitioners and their perceptions regarding what they, their congregations, and their host communities feel. This paper represents the first large-scale assessment of the views of practitioners of five major Christian denominations with regards to bell-ringing practice and its role in contemporary society.

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Esposito, Nicholas J., and Anthony H. Galt. "Far from the Church Bells: Settlement and Society in an Apulian Town." American Historical Review 97, no. 4 (October 1992): 1244. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2165608.

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Musgrave, Peter, and Anthony H. Galt. "Far from the Church Bells: Settlement and Society in an Apulian Town." Economic History Review 46, no. 2 (May 1993): 419. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2598038.

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Ferrante, Angela, Ersilia Giordano, Gianluca Standoli, Francesca Bianconi, Francesco Clementi, and Stefano Lenci. "Unveiling the complexity of twin church bells dynamics using ambient vibration tests." International Journal of Masonry Research and Innovation 8, no. 4/5 (2023): 520–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijmri.2023.131839.

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Croce, Pietro. "Nonlinear Dynamics of Swinging Clapper Bells under Arbitrary or Resonant Forcing Functions." Applied Sciences 10, no. 16 (August 10, 2020): 5528. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app10165528.

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Study of swinging clapper bells involves aspects encompassing sound and acoustic engineering, mechanical engineering, and structural engineering. From the musical point of view, clapper bells are directly played idiophone instruments, where the playing device, the clapper, although directly excited, is not explicitly controlled by the bell ringer. The achievement of a clear and optimal sound mainly depends on the acoustic characteristics of the bell and on the regularity of the clapper strokes, which is not only governed by the ringing style and the relevant parameters of clapper and bell but also by the real time corrections to the excitation introduced by trained bell ringers. In fact, despite centuries of experience allowed to optimize the bell performances, standardizing proportions and mounting arrangements, effective sound control requires some fine tuning of the forcing function. Another crucial topic, especially in view of assessing existing structures, regards the evaluation of time histories of the actions transmitted by the bell to the pivots and the study of the interactions between the bell and the supporting structures, belfries, and bell-towers. “Ringability” of swinging bells and bell-structure interactions are usually tackled in the framework of rigid body dynamics, so arriving at an initial value problem, governed by a system of two second order nonlinear ordinary differential equations (ODEs), whose solutions are piecewise-defined functions. In the relevant literature, numerical solutions of the system are commonly sought using built-in algorithms provided in advanced software packages; since the use of such general algorithms is subject to some restrictions, especially regarding the forcing functions, validity of the results is often limited. The present study focuses on an innovative procedure to solve the equations of motion. The method, extremely fast and effective, is based on original numerical explicit-implicit predictor-corrector integration algorithms with constant time step, duly validated reproducing the outcomes of relevant reference case studies. Each time the clapper strikes the bell a new “piece” of the solution is initialized, so avoiding user interventions in the elaboration phase. Independently on the oscillation amplitude and on the duration of the considered time interval, the algorithms can successfully manage undamped oscillations; friction and viscosity damped oscillations; free oscillations in transient and stationary phases; and can be applied also to solve stiff equations. Furthermore, the capability of the proposed methods to deal with arbitrary forcing functions is particularly innovative. The outcomes of relevant case studies, regarding the oscillations of the old tenor bell of the Great St. Mary church in Cambridge, confirm the potentialities of the method, also highlighting some topical issues, involving, for example, the assessment of damping equivalence. Finally, a pioneering feature of the algorithms is their ability to handle and to define “resonant” forcing functions, continuously tuning the frequency of the excitation to the natural frequency of the oscillation, according to the oscillation amplitude.

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Strickland, Stephanie. "Ringing the Changes: Mapping the Algorithmic Art of Change-Ringing on Church Bells." Ecotone 13, no. 2 (2018): 138–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ect.2018.0020.

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Sygowski, Paweł. "Na pograniczu wyznaniowym. Nieistniejąca unicka cerkiew pod wezwaniem św. Praksedy Męczennicy w Milejowie i jej wyposażenie." Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Sklodowska, sectio L – Artes 16, no. 1/2 (June 14, 2019): 7. http://dx.doi.org/10.17951/l.2018.16.1/2.7-41.

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<p>W czasach Rusi Halicko-Włodzimierskiej osadnictwo ruskie na terenie dzisiejszej Lubelszczyzny posuwało się systematycznie na zachód. W XV i XVI w. dotarło do doliny Wieprza. W jego środkowym biegu powstało wówczas kilka parafii prawosławnych – Łęczna, Puchaczów, a także Milejów. Parafie te po przystąpieniu diecezji chełmskiej do unii brzeskiej stały się unickimi. Usytuowanie ich na terenie ze wzrastającą przewagą osadnictwa polskiego spowodowało przechodzenie wiernych na rzymsko katolicyzm. Proces ten szczególnie widoczny jest w 2 połowie XVIII w. i 1 połowie XIX w. Parafia w Milejowie należąca do najstarszych na tym terenie, pod koniec XVIII w. liczyła zaledwie kilku parafian, a na początku XIX w. rezydował tu jedynie proboszcz unicki, ks. Bazyli Hrabanowicz. W 2 dekadzie XIX w. ówczesny właściciel dóbr milejowskich – Adam Suffczyński – rozpoczął starania o przekształcenie parafii unickiej w parafię rzymskokatolicką, a cerkwi unickiej w kościół. Okazało się to dosyć skomplikowane. Najpierw parafię unicką należało zamknąć, a dopiero potem utworzyć parafię rzymskokatolicką. Proces ten kontynuowała siostra Adama – Helena Chrapowicka, która wkrótce przekazała to zadanie kuzynowi Antoniemu Melitonowi Rostworowskiemu, a po jego śmierci założeniem parafii i budową kościoła zajęła wdowa po nim – Maria z Jansenów, a następnie ich syn Antoni Rostworowski. Parafia unicka została zamknięta w 1852 r., cerkiew rozebrana, a murowany kościół został wzniesiony w latach 1855-1856. Po śmierci wspomnianego proboszcza unickiego w 1832 r. (ostatniego tutejszego parocha), cerkwią opiekował się proboszcz Dratowa. Część wyposażenia cerkwi milejowskiej została przeniesiona do świątyni dratowskiej, gdzie spłonęło ono w roku 1886 r., w pożarze tamtejszej świątyni. Część wyposażenia zabezpieczona została we dworze milejowskim i po wybudowaniu kościoła przeniesiona do niego. Wśród tego wyposażenia wyróżnia się pochodząca z 2 połowy XVII w. ikona Matki Boskiej z Dzieciątkiem (w typie Eleusy), odnowiona w latach 2012-2013 staraniem ówczesnego proboszcza – ks. Andrzeja Juźko. Po akcji rozbiórkowej cerkwi w 1938 r. to jedna z wyjątkowo nielicznych, ocalałych ikon dawnej diecezji Kościoła wschodniego na Lubelszczyźnie.</p><p><strong>On the Religious Borderland. A Defunct Uniate Church under the Invocation of St. Praxedes the Martyr in Milejów and its Equipment</strong></p>SUMMARY<p>The parish in Milejów was one of the early Orthodox parishes in the Wieprz valley, recorded in the 1470s. The presence of the Orthodox priest in Milejów is documented in tax registers in the 16th century. More information on the Uniate parish and its Orthodox church can be found in the documents of the 18th-19th centuries. The author presents the history of the Milejów Uniate church and the parish with particular reference to the equipment of the church. First, the old Uniate church is described (the last quarter of the 17th and the fi rst half of the 18th century). The church had the high altar and three side altars; in addition, there were inter alia, liturgical vessels, altar bells, the bells on the belfry, liturgical books, an perhaps an iconostasis. The new Uniate church (the second half of the 18th and the fi rst half of the 19th century) – erected in the second half of the 18th century in place of the old one (which burnt down in ca. 1760) contained the high altar with the picture of Our Lady (painted on canvas) and two side altars. The equipment also included, inter alia, a silver and gilded pro Venerabili vessel, a chalice with a paten and a spoon, a can “for sick people”, an altar tin cross, a brass thurible, a metal swag lamp, three altar bells, a bell at the sacristy, four reliquaries, two small brass candlesticks, a processional cross, pictures, liturgical books. The next described stage is the end of the Uniate parish and the beginnings of the creation of the Roman-Catholic parish in the 19th century, founded in 1858. The new church – erected a few hundred meters from the place of the Uniate church – was consecrated in 1859. The equipment of the Uniate church before its demolition (the second quarter of the 19th century) included in 1828, inter alia, the above mentioned three altars, a new choir, a crucifi x, a confessional, a pulpit, candlesticks, pictures, and a new umbraculum. The inventory of 1847 also mentioned, inter alia, four icons situated near the high altar, a stoup, four benches, twenty candlesticks, and a porcelain chandelier. In the next part of the text the author describes the icons preserved in the Milejów church: „Matka Boska z dzieciątkiem” [Madonna and Child] and „Przemienienie Pańskie” [the Transfi guration of the Lord]. In the next parts of the article the author describes the history of the owners of Milejów, patrons and parish priests. At the end of the article he synthetically presents the history of the Milejów parish.</p>

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Selvaggi, I., G. Bitelli, E. Serantoni, and A. Wieser. "POINT CLOUD DATASET AND FEM FOR A COMPLEX GEOMETRY: THE SAN LUZI BELL TOWER CASE STUDY." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-2/W11 (May 5, 2019): 1047–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-2-w11-1047-2019.

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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Detailed three-dimensional reconstruction of heritage objects is crucial for different purposes, such as analysis, preservation and maintenance, among others. Geomatics techniques allow acquiring complex and comprehensive information about geometry and current conditions of the surveyed objects in a short time, which is a great advantage for documentation and historical archives. The reconstruction of three-dimensional models is often performed using either image-based techniques, mainly Close Range Photogrammetry (CRP), including Structure from Motion approaches (SfM), or range-based techniques, such as Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS). These approaches have been widely applied in the field of Cultural Heritage to support multidisciplinary studies, from simple documentation to the monitoring of historical buildings, in restoration works or for structural analysis checks.</p><p>The present paper aims at exploring the potential contribution of Geomatics to Structural Engineering, by investigating capabilities and advantages of TLS for a vertical structure. The experiments presented herein were carried out in a notable case study, the San Luzi church, located in Zuoz (Switzerland) in the Upper Engadin. Its bell tower is about 60&thinsp;m high and is equipped with four bells. Strong vibrations caused by the ringing of the bells have been observed in the past, and a structural model was desired to enable numerical evaluations of the response of the tower to various load situations by FEM.</p>

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Morelon, Claire. "Sounds of Loss: Church Bells, Place, and Time in the Habsburg Empire During the First World War*." Past & Present 244, no. 1 (May 16, 2019): 195–234. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtz006.

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Abstract This article examines the rupture created by the First World War in towns and villages of the Habsburg Empire by focusing on the requisition of church bells, which were melted for the production of munitions. Bells performed an important social function for both rural and urban populations in the early twentieth century. They gathered communities at important times, stood as symbols of local identity, and gave a structure to the days and lives of rural inhabitants. Their removal generated an intense emotional response among parishioners, which is documented in newspapers, parish newsletters or chronicles, and petitions to the Ministry of Religion. These various reactions shed light on the difficult conciliation between local identity, religiosity, and imperial patriotism during the war. The requisitions contributed to the de-legitimization process experienced by the Habsburg Empire at the end of the war, as well as in the disruption of soundscapes in the region. The sense of time was also disturbed as daily rhythms, religious celebrations, and death rituals changed. This exploration of material culture draws on insights from the history of emotions and sensory history to study the changes in the sense of place that the war provoked in local communities.

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Andersen, Michael. "Archaeology and Sigillography in Northern Europe." Medieval Globe 4, no. 1 (2018): 213–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.17302/tmg.4-1.8.

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Medieval seals, traditionally considered from the perspective of their documentary function, may also be studied as archaeological artefacts. Pilgrim badges were seal-shaped, and seal matrices and seal impressions can be found on church bells, in altars, and in burial sites. The context in which matrices are excavated provides valuable information on the practices of sealing and on the values attached to seals. This article also reveals a hitherto undescribed late medieval practice whereby papal and Scandinavian royal correspondents exchanged seal matrices.

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Spennemann, Dirk H., and Murray Parker. "Increasing Intensity: the sounds of church bells in Australia one year after COVID-19." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 149, no. 4 (April 2021): A28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/10.0004428.

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Meneghetti, Giovanni, and Barbara Rossi. "An analytical model based on lumped parameters for the dynamic analysis of church bells." Engineering Structures 32, no. 10 (October 2010): 3363–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engstruct.2010.07.010.

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Talashkin, Alexey. "Funeral bell-ringing in Central Russia and in Siberia: continuity and differences." St. Tikhons' University Review. Series V. Christian Art 50 (June 30, 2023): 160–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturv202350.160-173.

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The traditional Orthodox funeral knells in Siberia are an understudied topic requiring thorough investigation. After the Siberians had gained a rich cultural and spiritual experience of the Russian Orthodoxy, they developed it in accordance with local traditions. First of all, the Siberian bishops, who often had liturgical practice in central Russia, were the bearers of the experience. Before coming to Siberia, funeral knells evolved from single strikes in a special bell to change ringing in all the bells followed by a chord, and their two-part form was developed. A rhythmic pattern of funeral knells for the laity, priests and bishops had its own features. The performance of funeral knells for the Siberians could have a status of a posthumous award at the end of a saintly life; one could be also disappointed of the award in case of a formal attitude to the Church. The resettlers from the Little Russia had a special influence on the performance of funeral knells in Siberia in the early 20th century by introducing their own customs in resettlement villages. One of them was the ringing “for the soul”, unknown in Siberia, which was performed immediately after the death of a layman. The funeral knells for the laity were officially permitted in Siberia in 1911, however people had been used them even before that time in some regions of central Russia. Funeral knells fit into the general palette of Orthodox church bell ringing, acting, at the same time, as a signal, an art and a mass medium. The liturgical instructions survived to our days are fragmentary. The attitude to funeral knells shall be rethought in the modern liturgical practice.

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SUAREZ, Alex Rodriguez. "Two Church Bells from Antalya: Traces of the Religious Soundscape of the Late Ottoman Period." ADALYA, no. 23 (November 15, 2020): 517–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.47589/adalya.838146.

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