Peal Compositions Committee 2009 Annual Report
The Compositions Committee held a face-to-face meeting at Worcester and agreed a programme of work for the year.
The Stedman collection now consists of around 100 pages of Stedman and Erin compositions and is almost ready for submitting to the Publications Committee. A foreword will be written by David House.
In light of new composers claiming existing work as their own, a paper is being prepared on the Authorship of Compositions, taking into account Armiger Trollope's Treatise on Variation and Transposition and the increasing trend for compositions to be generated by computer software. The Compositions Committee will make recommendations concerning the authorship of compositions for future reference.
Reviews of compositions regularly appear in The Ringing World and we are additionally intending to include columns of quarter peals.
The diary collection of compositions is under review and some amendments will be submitted in time for the 2011 Diary.
The on line collection of compositions on the Central Council Website continues to be updated on a regular basis and currently stands at over 13,000 compositions. We welcome submissions of new compositions and these should be sent to compositions@cccbr.org.uk
Richard Allton
Paul Flavell (Chairman)
Robin Hall
Stuart Hutchieson
Philip Larter
Philip Saddleton
John Thompson
Simon Woof