Episode 011: Don Morrison on “Cornwall First”

• Don Morrison is a prolific ringer and composer who learned to ring in Boston and currently rings in Pittsburgh. He’ll always have a soft spot for St. John the Baptist in Peterborough (website, Dove’s listing), though, as you’ll hear.
• If you’d like to read up on composing, Don recommends:
  • Leary, John. Handbook of Composition.
  • Wilson, Wilfrid. Change Ringing. [scattered snippets, in surprising amount]
  • Trollope, J. Armiger. Variation and Transposition. [possibly out of print, online at https://www.ringing.info/v-and-t.html]
  • Longridge, John. Conducting and Coursing Order.
  • Price, Brian. A “fistful of interesting papers” at ringing.info. [most easily found by searching “Price” in-page]
  • Chant, Harold and Giles Thompson. Method Splicing parts I and II (Minor Methods and Major Methods, respectively).
  • Pullin, Richard. Ongoing series “Notable Composers of the Past” in Ringing World.
• For the truly curious, here is a listing for that first (rung) peal composition of Don’s, conducted by Geoff Davies: number 22 in the list of peals rung at Groton School.
• Rod Pipe’s series can be found in Ringing World in 1985 at pp. 636 and 1084; and in 1986 at pp. 60, 168, 232, 304, 460, 576, 642, 728, 840, 912, 1020, and 1080.
• We also manage to squeeze in some talk of Project Pickled Egg and the notion of “bumping up” Cornwall in the standard progression of treble-dodging methods one learns.
• If you’d like to see a “grab bag of things of interest to ringers to which things have been added and subtracted over the years,” you’re in luck: Don hosts such a resource at ringing.org!

Thank you, friends.

Bells: Kent School ca. 2003, unknown band.