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Antigonish : How the name was derived
No full textPamphlet by the Rev. Canon Andrew describing the origin of the place name Antigonish
A Study of Ed Bickert's Harmonic Conception
No full textThis thesis will explore many of Ed Bickert’s sensibilities and tendencies with the goal of obtaining a deeper understanding of his approach to jazz harmony. Bickert was a world-renowned voice in jazz guitar, acclaimed for his identifiable harmonic vocabulary which he implemented in his music both as an accompanist and improvising guitarist. He is equally known for his captivating sense of melody which he applied not only to his single-note lines, but also his accompaniment, chordal soloing and solo guitar vocabulary. However, for the purposes of this thesis, the emphasis will be on his harmonic vocabulary rather than his single note improvisation. This paper will discuss the following topics. 1) A succinct biography of Bickert’s life. 2) A history of the role of guitar in jazz and how selected musicians incorporated pianistic concepts to their guitar playing. 3) An analysis of Bickert’s use of harmonic devices and concepts such as Guide tones, double stops, open strings, planing, superimposition and implied harmony. 4) An analysis of Bickert’s use of melody in the top note of his voicings that he uses while accompanying and improvising. And finally, 5) An analysis of Bickert’s unusual voicings. Transcription material from the following recordings will be used as the primary resources for analysis in this thesis. “Alone Together” and “Come Rain or Come Shine” from At the Garden Party (Sackville SKCD2-4005) with Don Thompson, featuring Terry Clarke. “Have You Met Miss Jones” and “Skating in Central Park” from Out of the Past (Sackville SKCD2-2065) featuring Don Thompson and Terry Clarke. “Just Squeeze Me” and “I’m Old Fashioned” from Pure Desmond (CTI 6059S1) with Paul Desmond, featuring Ron Carter and Connie Kay. And finally, “When Sunny Gets Blue” from Joe Coughlin (Aquitaine AQU 13) with Joe Coughlin, featuring Don Thompson and Terry Clarke. Canadian Jazz Guitarist Lorne Lofksy was interviewed as a secondary source for this thesis. To Lofsky, Bickert was a close friend, mentor and contemporary. With decades of experience playing and learning from Bickert, Lofsky is an authority on Bickert’s playing style. Lofsky’s expert testimony offers insight into understanding some of Bickert’s harmonic concepts and how he developed them. A link to the interview with Lofsky is included in the bibliography of this paper
In the court of public opinion:: the case of Boulton and Park in the nineteenth-century British periodical press
No full textIn April 1870, Stella Boulton and Fanny Park were arrested at the Strand Theatre in London’s West End. Upon arrival at the Bow Street police station, the ladies revealed themselves to be Ernest Boulton and Frederick Park, two respectable middle-class men and amateur actors. They were subsequently charged with public indecency and conspiracy to commit, or to incite the commission of sodomy. Their arrest and subsequent trial in May 1871 appeared in nearly every major London newspaper, provoking outrage and speculation. Unlike other well-known sodomy trials in British queer history, Boulton and Park's concerned public non-normative gender expression. This thesis examines how the law, the press, and culture fed into one another and compounded to ultimately create a new “sort” of “offender,” in their view. This case points to a degree of tolerance for queerness and gender-nonconformity, but only in acceptable contexts. This case was exaggerated by police and sensationalized by the press, but neither the exceptionalism nor the publicity of this case outraged Victorian sensibilities more than did its lack of extraordinariness. The mundanity and ubiquity of Stella and Fanny’s behaviours across London and the knowledge that there were more people out there like them was the true scandal of the Boulton and Park Case. The trial, the press coverage it garnered, and the new connections between queerness and gender nonconformity that resulted, namely the formation in the popular imagination of a “sort” of person who desired queer intimacy, all worked to redefine cultural understandings of gender, sexuality, and identity
