Sonnerie
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Sonnerie is French for "making sound" or "ring". The term generally applies to bell towers and/or bells in mechanical clocks or watches (see for example grande sonnerie), but can equally be used, for example, for the sound produced by a telephone.
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)
- Sounds produced by the bells of alarm clocks and/or trumpets sounding a réveil, for example Erik Satie's Sonnerie pour réveiller le bon gros Roi des Singes (lequel ne dort toujours que d'un oeil) (1921)
- Outdoor music, for example performed by horns before a hunt, or a serenade performed in honour of a special person,...
- Any combination of the previous associations, for example Erik Satie's Sonneries de la Rose+Croix (1892)
