Sonneries De La Rose Croix
Sonneries may refer to: * The plural of sonnerie, French for ringing, especially in a bell tower or clock * '' Sonneries de la Rose+Croix'', a piano composition by Erik Satie {{disambiguation ...
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Sonnerie
Sonnerie is French for "making sound" or "ring". The term generally applies to bell towers or bells in mechanical clocks or wristwatches (see for example grande sonnerie), but can equally be used, for example, for the sound produced by a telephone. Sonnerie watches are revered by connoisseurs for chiming the time on tiny gongs on the hour and the quarter "in passing", and require highly skilled watchmakers as they "cannot be made satisfactorily through purely industrial means."Jack Forster For whom the bell tolls; For thee if you wear a minute repeater, the most complicated watch there is page 101 December 2009 Forbes Life When "Sonnerie" is used as the name of a musical composition, it bears connotations of: * Sounds produced by bell towers, for example Marin Marais' '' Sonnerie de Ste-Geneviève du Mont-de-Paris'' (1723), ''Carillon'' from Bizet's L'Arlésienne or Cole Porter's ''I Happen to Like New York'' - all three of which rely on a repeated three-note figure to convey th ...
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