Distance and atmosphere transform church bells into evocative legato sound

Evidence

Perhaps no sound benefits more from distance and atmosphere. Church bells form a sound complement to distant hills, wrapped in blue-gray mist. … Traveling a similar route to that of Charles Burney, yet keeping to the rivers and canals and avoiding the cities, Robert Louis Stevenson experienced church bells transformed in this way. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 193

Categorization

• XREF: Directly serves the reader’s goal of seeing landscape sounds as art — the bell-through-mist is a painterly sonic image. — connects to: A parish is defined acoustically by the range of its church bell. — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 191; Bells and sirens are opposing community signals despite shared loudness — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 598
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 193

Broader Connections

• A parish is defined acoustically by the range of its church bell. #expands (0.75) — Schafer, Murray R, The Soundscape- Our Sonic Environment…, 191