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Tintinnabulum in the Basilica of the Holy Blood. A tintinnabulum (roughly "little bell" in Medieval Latin) is a bell mounted on a pole, placed in a Roman Catholic basilica to signify the church's link with the Pope. [1]
Poe uses – and popularised – the word "tintinnabulation", often wrongly thought to be his own coinage, [3] based on the Latin word for "bell", tintinnabulum. [4] The series of "bells" echo the imagined sounds of the various bells, from the silver bells following the klip-klop of the horses, to the "dong, ding-dong" of the swinging golden ...
"Tintinnabulation is an area I sometimes wander into when I am searching for answers – in my life, my music, my work. In my dark hours, I have the certain feeling that everything outside this one thing has no meaning. The complex and many-faceted only confuses me, and I must search for unity.
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Print/export Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item; Appearance. move to sidebar hide. A tintinnabulum is a bell in a ...
tintinnabulation noun 1 : the ringing or sounding of bells Also, I had always thought that Poe's use of tintinnabulation was the ringing/sounding of bells (as the above definition says), so I am not sure where this article's definition as "the lingering sound of a ringing bell that occurs after the bell has been struck" is derived.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...
Side One: Tintinnabulation (30:00) Alone among the Environments series, Tintinnabulation is not natural sounds at all but a series of computer-generated bell sounds playable at any speed from 16 2 ⁄ 3 to 78 rpm. The CD reissue opted for the 16 2 ⁄ 3 rpm speed. Side Two: Dawn at New Hope, PA (30:00)