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Papers of William Alexander Johnson
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/66497Correspondence (photocopies) 1873-1877; engineering and law lecture notes; question cases 1926-1933; contract lecture notes; property in land and conveyancing 1935-1935; legal history 1933-1934; electrical engineering notebook 1921-1927; mathematical notebooks; publications; newspaper clippings.110027
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Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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Alexander Johnson and the Tennessee Harmony
Get PDFOne of the most interesting social and educational institutions of nineteenth-century rural America was the singing school. Singing schools were usually held in churches, and the great bulk of the music used was sacred in text. Many of the nineteenth-century tunebooks used a system of "shape-note" notation which was invented late in the eighteenth century and first used in William Little and William Smith's The Easy Instructor (1801). The nineteenth-century rural singing masters were a humble lot, the kind of men who seldom made headlines. Among these early singing masters was a Tennessean named Alexander Johnson, compiler of the tunebook Tennessee Harmony. Johnson was the first southern shape-note tunebook compiler outside the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Johnson's Tennessee Harmony seems to have found an immediate and widespread acceptance in the rural sections of Middle and West Tennessee. Alexander Johnson's tunebook may not have been as widely influential in the development and dissemination of shape-note hymnody as were those by Davisson, Carden, and later compilers, but it did provide the people of MiddIe and West Tennessee with the music they wanted to sing. In addition, Johnson introduced a number of tunes into the shape-note repertoire, some of which quickly became part of the standard stock of melodies used in later books
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Alexander Johnson en Hendrik Hofmeyr : ’n stylbespreking van geselekteerde kamermusiekwerke
Get PDFThesis (DMus)--University of Pretoria, 2014.The aim of this study is to identify the main differences in compositional style
in selected chamber music works by Hendrik Hofmeyr (Sonata per Flauto e
Pianoforte, Sonata per Clarinetto e Pianoforte and Sonata per Violoncello e
Pianoforte) and Alexander Johnson (Imicabango for flute and piano, Three
Incantations for flute, clarinet and piano, and Khalagari for flute and piano).
After a thorough analysis of the melodic-, harmonic-, rhythmic-, and structural
elements, it was clear that the two composers’ composition style is different
from one another. Differences can be identified under the following main
points: form structure, melodic and harmonic content, recurring motives and
texture.
Hofmeyr makes use of traditional form structures, such as sonata form,
ternary form, and theme and variations. Johnson does not use traditional form
structures and makes use of free form structures, such as: A1-A2-A3-A4-A5-
A6-A7 (second movement from Khalagari), ABABC (third movement from
Three Incantations), and A1-A2-B-A3-closing section (first movement from
Three Incantations). The first movement from Khalagari is the only movement
where references to sonata form can be found.
Hofmeyr uses existing modes and scales in his works. Both his Sonata per
Flauto e Pianoforte and Sonata per Violoncello e Pianoforte contain numerous
examples where he makes use of the octatonic scale and the phrygian mode.
Examples of the hexatonic scale can be found in the first and second
movements of the Sonata per Clarinetto e Pianoforte. Hofmeyr’s chord
structures are also based on these scales and modes. Alexander Johnson
does not use any of the above-mentioned scales, but rather makes use of his
own scale (labeled as the “Johnson-scale” in this study). His chord structures
are also based on this scale.
Hofmeyr does not use themes and motives from other compositions in the
three works in this study. He does however combine themes from earlier
movements within a composition. Examples of this can be found in the third movements from Sonata per Flauto e Pianoforte and Sonata per Clarinetto e
Pianoforte. Johnson combines motives and themes from other compositions
in his works. Motives from Three Incantations can be found in Khalagari. A detailed summary can be found in the conclusion of this study.tm2015MusicDMusUnrestricte
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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