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Rachel Carson, Wendell Berry, Henry David Thoreau: Discerning the Ideal Relationship with Nature
No full textThis thesis explores the question of a right relationship to nature by examining the literary works of Rachel Carson, Wendell Berry, and Henry David Thoreau
To Allen Forte from His Former Advisees: Tributes and Reminiscences
No full textTestimonials are collected from forty-two former doctoral advisees of Allen Forte, whose Yale graduation dates range from 1968 to 2002. Although the style and focus of individual tributes vary, many convey something about Forte, both professionally and personally, at the time in which the advisee studied with him. The results are ordered chronologically (by Ph.D. dates) so that collectively they suggest the evolution of Forte himself, as well as North American music theory, across the decades. The contributors include (in alphabetical order): Baker, James M.; Ballan, Harry R.; Beach, David W.; Bergman, Rachel; Bernard, Jonathan W.; Berry, David Carson; Black, Leslie; Boss, Jack F.; Brown, Stephen C.; Chapman, Alan; Check, John; Chrisman, Richard; Damschroder, David A.; Ewell, Philip; Galand, Joel; Girton, Irene M. [Levenson]; Graziano, John; Greer, Taylor A.; Hamao, Fusako; Hanson, Jens L.; Harrison, Daniel; Horlacher, Gretchen; Kowalke, Kim H.; Krebs, Harald; Latham, Edward D.; McNamee, Ann K.; Moreno, Jairo; Neumeyer, David; Nolan, Catherine; Rothgeb, John; Rothstein, William; Russom, Philip; Schmalfeldt, Janet; Schwanauer, Stephan M.; Shaftel, Matthew R.; Spicer, Mark S.; Stein, Deborah; Straus, Joseph N.; Wason, Robert W.; Wheaton, J. Randall; Yeston, Maury; and Yih, Annie K.
This article is part of a special, serialized feature: A Music-Theoretical Matrix: Essays in Honor of Allen Forte (Part V)
A New King David for Late Antiquity: Classical Exemplarity & Biblical Personality in Pseudo- Hegesippus
No full textIn late ancient Christian literature, King David is ubiquitous. Not simply cited as the famous author of many psalms, he almost always appears as a model of penitence, a foreshadow of Christ, or a paradigm of Christian virtues and values. But not always. In one fourth-century Christian text, King David appears in a striking and distinctive relief. This Latin text, known as De excidio Hierosolymitano (On the Destruction of Jerusalem), sometimes called PseudoHegesippus, presents King David as a figure familiar from Judaeo-Christian tradition, but in a way that resonates most strongly with classical Greco-Roman literary norms. This text rewrites Josephus’s Jewish War from a Christian perspective, and mentions David at a dozen points. In each case, David appears as an exemplum associated with a particular biblical episode or theme. Often, the treatment of these episodes in Josephus or other early Christian literature helps explain why Pseudo-Hegesippus presents David in particular lights. However, taking all of the appearances of David in De Excidio into view, this article shows that Pseudo-Hegesippus is not only beholden to biblical, Josephan, or early Christian precedents, but creatively constructs his own portrait of David within his historiographical framework. This article then suggests that this David’s rhetorical valence and distinctive character are best explained vis-à-vis the traditional (Greek and) Roman use of exempla inasmuch as Pseudo-Hegesippus’s David conspicuously lacks any of the theological, doctrinal, or ethical features so characteristic of his portrayal in most of ancient Christian literature. Pseudo-Hegesippus portrays King David in terms resonant of both Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian traditions
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Session IV: Fair Use and Other Exceptions (David Carson)
No full textI’m going to give an overview on where we are right now with respect to international copyright treaties and how they deal with exceptions and limitations, and maybe a little bit about how we got there, and I’ll leave it to others to say where we ought to be going. We start with the Berne Convention, which is the first international copyright treaty. And if you look at why Berne came about, it was mainly because authors back in the mid-to-late nineteenth century were concerned that they weren’t getting protection for their works in countries other than their home countries. French authors—and of course French authors were very much at the forefront of the Berne movement—were concerned that their works were being pirated in Belgium and in Holland. And that sort of led to this movement to have an international treaty whereby if you were an author from country A, your rights would be recognized in country B to the same degree that authors in country B would have their rights. And that gets us to the basic proposition—not just a premise of international copyright law, but international IP law in general—the notion of national treatment. And of course Berne goes beyond that: the first Berne Convention talked about certain degrees of rights, and over years there have been revisions of Berne. There have been expansion of rights, and expansion of subject matter protected, largely as a result of technology, which has allowed new ways of expression and new ways of exploiting expression. And that’s been the focus for most of the history of international copyright agreements
Learning from the land: Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson on knowledge and nature.
No full textThis dissertation seeks to identify the sources of the ideas of Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson about acquiring knowledge of nature, and to study the development of those ideas into proposals for sustainable agriculture. Their works were perhaps the most prominent and extensive theories of how humans can acquire knowledge necessary to work sustainably in nature in recent America. This study uses their work to explore the relationship of the environmental movement to ideas about using nature, and the conditions under which environmentalist epistemologies have developed. Berry's 1960s attempts to realize aesthetic principles inspired by William Carlos Williams and others shaped his later theories about knowledge of nature, which I suggest can be described as a theory of 'situated knowledge.' Jackson's proposal for a research program for a perennial polyculture of new grain crops was enabled by his experiences with appropriate technology, environmental ethics, and alternative education at The Land Institute. The dissertation is based on intellectual biographies of the two subjects, relying heavily on close readings of their writings. My subjects ideas relied on hybridizations between environmentalist discourses and their work as, respectively, a poet/novelist and a scientist. Berry and Jakcson grwe concerned about human damage to nature, which I demonstrate was due largely to interactions with the developing environmental movement. I explain that Albert Howard and Rodale Press, leading promoters of organic growing, played significant roles both in shaping my subjects' work and developing the ideas of the movement as a whole. Most work on Jackson and particularly Berry emphasizes the agrarian influence on them; I complement that by arguing for the importance of understanding them within the context of the environmental movement, including their interactions with the Sierra Club and David Brower, and readings of Aldo Leopold and J. Russell Smith. Influenced by such experiences, they objected to the epistemologies of contemporary agricultural scientists, which they saw as reductionist and over-confident. In response, Berry and Jackson sought agricultures utilizing properties emerging on higher levels of organization, hoping that by mimicking properties of ecosystems they could use attributes of nature they did not need to fully understand.PhDAmerican historyAmerican literatureLanguage, Literature and LinguisticsScience historySocial SciencesUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/124398/2/3138147.pd
The Roles of Invariance and Analogy in the Linear Design of Stravinsky’s “Musick to heare”
No full textA list of contributing author biographie
The Role of Adele T. Katz in the Early Expansion of the New York "Schenker School"
No full textIn 1927, Heinrich Schenker named New York as the first North American city in which his ideas were spreading, though he was not specific as to the means of transmission.l Four years later, however, the chief point of con-tact would be clear, as Schenkerism found an institutional home at the David Mannes Music School (now Mannes College of Music) . It was there that Schenker's student Hans Weisse began teaching in 1931; starting the next year, he concurrently conducted graduate seminars at Columbia Uni-versity. Mter Weisse's untimely death in 1940, Schenker's student Felix Salzer assumed similar duties at Mannes; he later became a professor of music at Queens College ofthe City University of New York
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The Role of Adele T. Katz in the Early Expansion of the New York "Schenker School"
No full textIn 1927, Heinrich Schenker named New York as the first North American city in which his ideas were spreading, though he was not specific as to the means of transmission. Four years later, however, the chief point of contact would be clear, as Schenkerism found an institutional home at the David Mannes Music School (now Mannes College of Music) . However, the precise role of one important participant in the emergence and development of New York's "Schenker School" has remained largely unknown, and without an understanding of her diverse activities, one has an incomplete picture of the true nature and extent of that School. This person is Adele T. Katz. Although there is no Katz estate-whatever personal materials remained upon her death were not preserved-through institutional archive research and consultations with those who knew or worked with her, I have documented her endeavors in an effort to rescue them from their present obscurity. Following a biographical overview, the largest component of this article will be devoted to Katz's teaching activities; a consideration of her publications will follow. In a brief conclusion I will then summarize the primary focus of her work as a Schenkerian, and address a more general topic that will have emerged through this narrative: the roles of women in the transmission of Schenker's ideas
Data and code for "Runoff variability in the Truckee-Carson River basin from tree rings and a water balance model"
No full textData, supplemental material and R computer code for the paper "Runoff variability in the Truckee-Carson River basin from tree rings and a water balance model." The paper, submitted to Earth Interactions, illustrates reconstruction of point runoff in a mountain watershed from a combination of tree-ring chronologies of total-width, sub-annual-width and delta blue intensity chronologies. The reference for the paper is as follows:Meko, D. M., Biondi, F., Taylor, A. H., Panyushkina, I. P., Thaxton, R. D., Prusevich, A. A., Shiklomanov, A. I., Lammers, R. B. and Glidden, S. (submitted, 2024). Runoff variability in the Truckee-Carson River basin from tree rings and a water balance model. Earth Interactions.For inquiries regarding the contents of this dataset, please contact the Corresponding Author listed in the README.txt file. Administrative inquiries (e.g., removal requests, trouble downloading, etc.) can be directed to [email protected]</p
World Socialist Web Site Interviews about the 1619 Project
No full textIn response to the New York Times' "1619 Project," the World Socialist Web Site published interviews with a number of historians who dispute the historical accuracy and critical approach of the project. Participants include Niles Niemuth, Tom Mackaman, David North, Victoria Bynum, James McPherson, James Oakes, anonymous auto workers, Adolph Reed Jr., Dolores Janiewski, Gordon Wood, Richard Carwardine, and Clayborne Carson
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