Librería Samer Atenea
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Librería Kolima (Madrid)
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A musical scholar is challenged to find and explore an area different from his colleagues. During the summer of 1972, Dr. Otto Henry, a musicologist in his thirdyear at East Carolina University, accepts an invitation on the spur of the moment,to accompany some old anthropologist friends from Tulane University, to the amazing little Mediterranean island of Malta. His friends have just completeda definitive study of Maltese folk music. However, he is encouraged to find an area of his own. And to stay out of the library! After a few false starts, Henry accidently discovers the significance of the ubiquitous church bells that ring from their stone towers all day long and partof the night. Bells that celebrate the time of day, the season, religious services and occasions; bells that, with their individual tones, rhythms and colors, musically mark off and enhance the times, the days and the seasons of Maltese life. And then, as it turns out, their passing. Henry’s daily field notes capture the wonder and majesty of these huge bronze implements, some of which havebeen melted and re-cast as cannons and then back into bells. Then there are those who ring the bells, a special lot, sometimes a little apartand distant from ordinary folk, but people who are always glad to help explain their lives and duties to a strange inglese with a beard.
