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A treatise of musick, speculative, practical and historical /
No full text"An ode on the power of musick, inscrib'd to Mr. Malcolm ... by Mr. Mitchell": p. [iii]-xii.Mode of access: Internet
Green Hills of Magic: West Virginia Folktales from Europe
No full textIn the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its great collieries. With them they brought many folktales and legends of then homelands. Ruth Ann Musick has collected some of the best and most representative of these stories—never before published in book form—in The Green Hills of Magic. In many instances, these tales were first related in family circles in the native languages of the tellers, later to be translated by their younger English-speaking descendants. Entertaining in themselves, the stories are also excellent examples of the diverse folk beliefs and cultural patterns of the national and ethnic immigrant groups. The tales are attractively illustrated with more than twenty black-and-white drawings.
Ruth Ann Musick, professor emeritus of English at Fairmont State College, West Virginia, is the author of The Telltale Lilac Bush.https://uknowledge.uky.edu/upk_folklore/1006/thumbnail.jp
Microphysical characteristics of ice crystals and snowflakes as revealed by polarimetric radar measurements
No full textSummer 1998.Also issued as Christine Musick Reese Butler's thesis (M.S.) -- Colorado State University, 1998.This research encompassed both observational and theoretical aspects of copolar and differential reflectivity in the less explored, yet important, winter season precipitation. The observational portion was conducted with the multiparameter, CSU-CHILL radar and supplemented by observers at the Fort Collins Weather Station on the Campus of Colorado State University (FCL) who recorded microphysical features of the snowfall such as snow type, composition, size, and degree of riming. Additionally, a 2-D video disdrometer, located at FCL, made particle size distribution measurements. In order to compare the appropriate radar data with the ground observations, the approximate trajectory of the snow was computed from the height it was interrogated by the radar to the surface. The trajectory, applied in reverse from FCL, identified the source region of the observed snow in the 0.5° and 1° elevation scans of the radar. The results of the observational analyses suggest that nearly homogeneous populations of aggregates can be distinguished from platelike crystals (i.e. dendrites, stellar crystals, and plates) using a combination of co-polar and differential reflectivity (Z and ZoR) radar observations. Furthermore, it appears possible to discern whether or not the platelike crystals are intensely rimed. Additionally, the results challenge the validity of the common assumption that aggregates always produce a ZoR value of O dB. Scattering model studies based on T-matrix theory and the Mueller matrix method were conducted to demonstrate the consistency of the observed radar variables with theoretical values and to test our speculations on which hydrometeor microphysical characteristics were responsible for the observed variations in those variables. Our modeling results suggest several conclusions. First, the aggregate shapes are more relevant and have more impact on ZoR than generally expected; therefore, the modeling assumption that all aggregates are nearly spherical can produce erroneously low ZoR values. Secondly, the size-dependent density formulas for aggregates which predict that bulk densities decrease with size may not always be applicable. Next, the canting of hydrometeors can overcome the influence of microphysical characteristics on Zoa; thus, in a model, it is important to include canting for turbulent situations. when it likely occurred and to exclude it for calmer situations where it was not likely to have occurred. Lastly, the model results validated the idea that intensely rimed platelike crystals could be distinguished from other platelike crystals and highlighted the problems that can be encountered if modelers depend upon size-dependent axis ratio formulas without considering the effects of riming.Sponsored by the National Science Foundation ATM-9612519
VI Englisch songs with violins, and german flutes, and a trough bass for the harpsicord
No full textset to musick by W. DefeschRISM A/I F 549. - Preisangabe: Price 1s. & 6 d.Vorlageform des Erscheinungsvermerks: London. Printed for and sold by the author at the Blew Canister in Henrietta Street Covent Garden. And at Mr. Walsh's in Catherine Street in the strand. N3. and at all the Musick Shops in tow
Musick's monument, or, A remembrancer of the best practical musick, both divine and civil, that has ever been known to have been in the world [electronic resource] : divided into three parts ... /
No full textContains music in tablature.Reproduction of original in Harvard University Libraries.WingArber's Term cat.(from t.p.) pt. 1. Necessity of singing psalms well. How they may be well sung. How cathedral musick may be much improved and refined -- pt. 2. Treats of the noble lute -- pt. 3. The generous viol.Electronic reproduction
The life and works of James Miller, 1704-1744, with particular reference to the satiric content of his poetry and plays.
No full textPhDJames Miller was born the son of a Dorset rector in 1704. He
was himself ordained, but acquired no benefice until just before his
early death, probably because of a scathing portrayal of the Bishop
of London in one of his verse satires. At Oxford he wrote a vivacious
comedy of humours, set in the University. Its production in 1730
began his dramatic career, at a time when the number of London
theatres had just doubled, and new dramatic forms were being invented.
In 1731 his poem Harlequin-Horace, a witty inversion of
the Ars Poetica, attacked pantomime and opera, but also painted a
lively portrait of the entire theatrical world, in the tradition of
the Dunciad.
After collaborating in a translation of Moliere's works Miller
wrote two plays based on this author. Of all his dramatic works
these were the most successful with his contemporaries, and were
followed by a modernisation of Much Ado, and a ballad-opera adapted
from an afterpiece by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, and rendered highly
topical. Miller made similar use of a recent French comedy showing
a Red Indian's reactions to civilisation, a satiric "fable" by Walsh
and Voltaire's Mahomet. A large quantity of original material was
incorporated into most of these, and this is generally satirical in
nature. The Indian is made to voice almost egalitarian sentiments.
An afterpiece, "The Camp Visitants", satirised military inaction
in the war, and was apparently banned. The manuscripts of the six
plays produced after the Licensing Act bear the examiner's deletions,
and illustrate the nature of the censorship at this time.
Miller's greatest strength is probably his flexible, vigorously
colloquial dialogue. His political satire is mostly contained in
the poetry, which attacks Walpole's administration with increasing
vehemence through the seventeen-thirties, until its fall. In 1740
two poems that used Pope in symbolic contrast to Walpole caused a
sensation. In both poetry and plays Miller is also a social satirist,
who lays unusually strong emphasis on false taste and the deterioration
of culture
"Reason's feminist disciples" : Cartesianismus und englische Frauen des 17. Jahrhunderts
No full textTwentieth-century scholars have thought little about the attractions of Descartes’ thinking. Especially in feminist theory, he has a bad press as the ‘instigator’ of the body-mind-split – seen as one of the theoretical bases for the subordination of women in Western culture. Seen from within seventeenth-century discourse it is the dictum that can be inferred from his writings that ‘the mind has no sex’ and which can be seen as an appeal to think about rational capacities in the utopian perspective of a gender neutral discourse. My work analyses this “face” of Cartesianism as it was adapted in favour of English seventeenth-century women. How were the specific tenets of Descartes’ philosophy employed on behalf of English women in the second half of the seventeenth century in England? My focus is on Descartes as a thinker, who – whatever his real or imagined intention might have been – provided women in seventeenth-century England with tools with which to change their status, in other words: with instruments of empowerment. So why were Descartes’ arguments so attractive for women? Descartes had argued for equal rational abilities among individuals in a gender neutral way. He had further critiqued generally accepted truth with his universal doubt. I believe this specific combination of ideas, affirming their rational capabilities, was seen by a number of women as an invitation to become involved in spheres of activity from which they were previously excluded. Moreover, a specific set of Descartes’ arguments provided a number of English women with a strategy to extend female agency. Not only did Descartes’ views legitimate female rationality, they also allowed an acknowledgement that this female intellect was equally connected to “truth” as that of their male contemporaries. As a consequence, women developed an increased self-esteem and inspiration to pursue their own independent study (and in some cases publishing). These ideas eventually helped to bring forward a demand for female education, as girls and women were still excluded from formal education in seventeenth-century England. My general thesis is that Cartesianism, as one of the earliest universalist theories on the nature of human reason, introduced new possibilities into the English debate over the nature and, hence, social position of women. It brought a radical twist to the already existing discussion on women by offering new critical tools which were taken up to argue on behalf of English women. In my work I examine the specific historical conditions of the reception of Descartes’ thought in England, the philosophical appeal of his ideas for women and analyse the writings of two English ‘disciples’ of Descartes: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle and Mary Astell.Die Forschung des 20. Jahrhundert war kaum an der Attraktivität von Descartes’ Theorien interessiert. Vor allem in der ‚Feminist Theory’ hat René Descartes als Hervorbringer des Körper-Geist-Trennung eher eine „schlechte Presse“, da sie als eine der theoretischen Grundlagen der Unterdrückung der Frauen in der westlichen Kultur verstanden wird. Betrachtet man den Diskurs jedoch aus der Perspektive des 17. Jahrhunderts, tritt das Diktum „die Vernunft hat kein Geschlecht“ aus Descartes’ Schriften hervor, womit der Blick auf die Vernunft aus der utopischen Perspektive eines geschlechtsneutralen Diskurses möglich wird. Meine Arbeit analysiert genau dieses „Gesicht“ des Cartesianismus und dessen Form, wie es zugunsten englischer Frauen des 17. Jahrhunderts angewendet wurde. Aber wie genau sah diese Anwendung von Descartes’ Ideen in der zweiten Hälfte des 17. Jahrhunderts aus? Mein Fokus liegt hier auf Descartes’ Philosophie – völlig unabhängig von einer möglichen oder tatsächlichen Intentionen Descartes’ – die englischen Frauen des 17. Jahrhunderts mit einem Ermächtigungs-Instrumentarium ausstattete, durch das sie ihren Status verändern konnten. Was genau war an Descartes’ Argumenten so attraktiv für Frauen? Descartes hatte argumentiert, dass jeder Mensch Vernunft besitzt und zwar in einer geschlechterneutralen Sprache. Er hatte außerdem die allgemein anerkannte Vorstellung von Wahrheit kritisiert durch seinen universellen Zweifel. Diese spezifische Kombination von Ideen ließ die Interpretation zu, dass auch Frauen Vernunft besitzen, was von vielen Frauen als Einladung verstanden wurde, an Bereichen teilzuhaben, von denen sie bisher ausgeschlossen wurden. Descartes’ Philosophie ermöglichte außerdem seinen englischen Zeitgenossinnen, eine Strategie zu entwickeln, durch die sie ihre weibliche Handlungsfähigkeit deutlich erweitern konnten. Seine Philosophie erlaubte nicht nur die Interpretation, dass auch Frauen vernunftbegabt sind, sondern legte auch nahe, dass diese Vernunft eine ähnlich direkte Anbindung zur „Wahrheit“ hat, wie die der männlichen Zeitgenossen. Aus dieser Vorstellung resultierte, dass Frauen ein Selbstwertgefühl entwickelten und Inspiration erfuhren und sich neuen Feldern und unabhängigen Studien widmeten (die sie teilweise auch publizierten). Diese Vorstellungen halfen schließlich die Forderung nach einer institutionalisierten Bildung von Mädchen und Frauen, die bis dahin immer noch von formaler Bildung im England des 17. Jahrhunderts ausgeschlossen waren, auf den Weg zu bringen. Meine These ist, dass der Cartesianismus als eine der ersten universalistischen Theorien zur Vernunft, neue Impulse in die englische Debatte über die Natur und gesellschaftlichen Stellung der Frau einbrachte. Hieraus ergab sich eine radikale Veränderung der bereits existierenden Debatte über die Frau, vor allem durch die Aufnahme der neu zu Verfügung stehenden kritischen Instrumentarien, die zugunsten englischer Frauen aufgenommen wurden. Ich untersuche in meiner Arbeit die spezifischen historischen Rezeptions-Bedingungen von Descartes’ Ideen in England, die philosophische Attraktion seiner Ideen für Frauen und analysiere die Werke von zwei englischen ‚Anhängerinnen’ von Descartes: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle und Mary Astell
Multipoint Linkage Analysis Under Heterogeneity: Incorporation of Parametric and Nonparametric Approaches
No full textComplex-induced proximity effects in proton transfer and halogen-metal exchange reactions
No full textReactions in which there is formal intramolecular transfer of an acidic deuterium to a site of halogen-lithium exchange could be interpreted to show that initial halogen-lithium exchange occurs faster than loss of the acidic deuterium. However studies of the competition between halogen-metal exchange and deuterium loss for -deutero--alkyl-2-, 3-, and 4-halobenzamides (39a-f) are not consistent with that mechanism. An alternative mechanism in which initial loss of the acidic deuterium is followed by halogen-lithium exchange to give a dilithiated intermediate (41) is suggested. Deuterium transfer to the site of halogen-lithium exchange then occurs by intermolecular reaction of the dilithiated species with unreacted -deuterated amide as it diffuses into the solution. The halogen-lithium exchange is faster than complete mixing of the reactants, and can occur either in an initially formed deprotonated complex or in a transient high local concentration of organolithium reagent as the organolithium is added to the amide substrate. Differentiation between these two possibilities is achieved by employing reverse addition of the amide substrate to a solution of the organolithium reagent. In cases where halogen-lithium exchange occurs through a complex, no change in product ratios is observed.Further evidence for halogen-lithium exchange occurring through a complex is acquired by comparing product ratios obtained by the use of monomeric lithium reagents and aggregated lithium reagents. Aggregated lithium reagents are necessary to form a complex on the deprotonated amide.Other substrates containing both an acidic proton and an aromatic halogen which are treated with -butyllithium include ortho- and para-halogenated benzoic acids (46), anilines (48), phenols (50), -methyl--benzylamines (44), cinnamic acids (54), and benzanilides (57). Under all conditions it appears that halogen-lithium exchange occurs more slowly than removal of the acidic proton.An investigation into the nature of the complex which effects halogen-lithium exchange is accomplished by intermolecular competition studies between secondary and tertiary amides, between secondary amide anions and secondary amides, between amides and benzoic acids, and by intramolecular competitions using substituted benzanilides.Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T12:45:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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