EUROPE COLLECTION

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REEL 55 [DAT 28]

Lesconil, France April 17/75

A [ID 3 45:59]

1.  DAWN CHORUS, cont'd from reel 54.

mark * truck passing, followed by another one. [4:45]

B [ID 4 1:09:03]

2.  CATHOLIC CHURCH BELLS, single bell ring.

2a, b, c, (false takes)

[ID 5 1:12:53]

3.  CATHOLIC CHURCH BELLS, Angelus.

[ID 6 1:16:02]

4.  " " " 3 bells.

mark * bells begin. [0:12]

C

Photo 116, Photo 219, Photo 220

[ID 7 1:23:33]

5.  SONG SUNG in back room of Ty An Aod (bar in Lesconil)

("Le Pardon de Saint Anne d'Auray")

[ID 8 1:27:02]

6.  ANOTHER SONG: "Trois Marins Partit à Terre Neuve"

 

COMMENTARY

1. Note distinct drop in activity towards last 5 minutes of the section.

2. Beginning marred by talk and van door slamming.

3. One lower clock bell - - - - - - - - - then higher single bell (Angelus) ringing.

4.

note tritone in subtone of lower bell.

at beginning: lowest bell (b) starts, then middle (c), then highest; at end lowest stops first, then highest, middle rings last. Then: all three bells ring in this pattern:

First ring indicates to villages that this following sequence - funeral bells - is a demonstrational ring, not for real.

5. Songs sung by Mme. Divanch, mother of bartender, ca. 65 years old.

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