9 research outputs found
Curtis Blanton, Mountain Humorist
No full textAuthor Curtis Blanton has a wonderful sense of humor. Herewith, listen to this interview from 2009 about how he came to publish the stories he heard the old timers tell when he was a kid
Curtis Wilkie Letter and Map
No full textA nine-page letter from journalist and author Curtis Wilkie, written to his parents, containing a first-hand account of the integration of the University of Mississippi. Wilkie was a student at the university at the time. Included is a hand-drawn map showing the places on campus where various events occurred during the riots
CURTIS WILKIE: One of Capitol Hill’s Most Outstanding Writers
No full textFor years, veteran political journalist and author Curtis Wilkie, 64, has been in the right place at the right time. A native Mississippian, he was a senior at Ole Miss when white segregationists rioted there in 1962. As a young reporter in the Mississippi Delta, he covered the Civil Rights movement on its most deadly battlefields. Later, he went north to the Wilimington (Del.) Journal and the Boston Globe, where he worked as a national and foreign correspondent, covering the Middle East conflicts of the 1980s, the White House and eight presidential campaigns
Veteran Journalist, Author Curtis Wilkie Returns to Ole Miss as Visiting Professor
No full textUNIVERSITY, Miss. -- University of Mississippi students will hear first-hand about the world, presidential politics and book-writing when veteran reporter Curtis Wilkie returns to his alma mater as a visiting professor this spring
John Dewey and the Ethics of Historical Belief: Religion and the Representation of the Past
No full textUses the thought of John Dewey to address the ethics of historical belief within religious and critical historiographical traditions.John Dewey and the Ethics of Historical Belief addresses the ethics of the representation of the past with a focus on the justification of historical belief within religious and critical historiographical traditions. What makes a belief about the past justified? What makes one historical belief preferable to another? A great deal rides on how these questions are answered. History textbook wars take place across the globe, from California to India. Cultural heritage protection is politicized and historical research is commonly deployed in support of partisan agendas.This book explores not only John Dewey’s relatively unknown contribution to this topic, but also the leading alternatives to his approach. Author Curtis Hutt focuses attention on the debate among those most influenced by Dewey’s thought, including Richard Rorty, Richard Bernstein, James Kloppenberg, Wayne Proudfoot, and Jeffrey Stout. He also reviews the seminal work of Van Harvey on the relationship between historians and religious believers. Dewey is cast as a vigorous opponent of those who argue that justified historical belief depends upon one’s religious tradition. Strongly resisted is the idea that historical belief can be justified simply on account of acculturation. Instead, Dewey’s view that beliefs are justified as a result of theorized historical inquiry is emphasized. In order to prevent moral blindness, the responsible historian and theologian alike are advised to attend to witnesses to the past that arise from outside of their own traditions.https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/gchr_books/1002/thumbnail.jp
Saber-tooth curriculum : including other lectures in the history of paleolithic education /
No full text"A classic of educational criticism proves its relevance in light of today's educational quandaries First published by McGraw-Hill in 1939, The Saber-Tooth Curriculum was a groundbreaking satire of the educational establishment, and its unwillingness to adapt to changing times. Throughout the decades, this witty work has not only become an educational classic, but has also remained as relevant and applicable to the key questions in education today as it was when first published. With tongue firmly in cheek, Peddiwell takes on the conflicting philosophies of education, from its imagined origins at the dawn of time to its culmination in a ritualistic, deeply entrenched social institution with rigidly prescribed norms and procedures. Developed within a fanciful framework of fictional lectures, given by fictional author Professor J. Abner Peddiwell, doyen in the History of Education at Petaluma State College, this humorous fable illustrates the progress of education and gives valuable insights into how it could continue to develop in the decades to come."--Desc. of new 2004 ed., via amazon.caIllustrated t.p. on two leaves, on p. 7, 27, 49, 77, 115, and at chapter headings.Foreword of the Classic Edition / John I. Goodlad -- Introduction / R. Lee Hornbake -- The saber-tooth curriculum / J. Abner Peddiwell -- A historical note on this book and its author / Curtis G. Benjamin -- Under his own command: the careers of Harold R.W. Benjamin / Franklin Parker."A classic of educational criticism proves its relevance in light of today's educational quandaries First published by McGraw-Hill in 1939, The Saber-Tooth Curriculum was a groundbreaking satire of the educational establishment, and its unwillingness to adapt to changing times. Throughout the decades, this witty work has not only become an educational classic, but has also remained as relevant and applicable to the key questions in education today as it was when first published. With tongue firmly in cheek, Peddiwell takes on the conflicting philosophies of education, from its imagined origins at the dawn of time to its culmination in a ritualistic, deeply entrenched social institution with rigidly prescribed norms and procedures. Developed within a fanciful framework of fictional lectures, given by fictional author Professor J. Abner Peddiwell, doyen in the History of Education at Petaluma State College, this humorous fable illustrates the progress of education and gives valuable insights into how it could continue to develop in the decades to come."--Desc. of new 2004 ed., via amazon.c
MAESTRO
No full textMAESTRO (MIDI and Audio Edited for Synchronous TRacks and Organization) is a dataset composed of about 200 hours of virtuosic piano performances captured with fine alignment (~3 ms) between note labels and audio waveforms.
We partnered with organizers of the International Piano-e-Competition for the raw data used in this dataset. During each installment of the competition virtuoso pianists perform on Yamaha Disklaviers which, in addition to being concert-quality acoustic grand pianos, utilize an integrated high-precision MIDI capture and playback system. Recorded MIDI data is of sufficient fidelity to allow the audition stage of the competition to be judged remotely by listening to contestant performances reproduced over the wire on another Disklavier instrument.
The dataset contains about 200 hours of paired audio and MIDI recordings from ten years of International Piano-e-Competition. The MIDI data includes key strike velocities and sustain/sostenuto/una corda pedal positions. Audio and MIDI files are aligned with ∼3 ms accuracy and sliced to individual musical pieces, which are annotated with composer, title, and year of performance. Uncompressed audio is of CD quality or higher (44.1–48 kHz 16-bit PCM stereo).
A train/validation/test split configuration is also proposed, so that the same composition, even if performed by multiple contestants, does not appear in multiple subsets. Repertoire is mostly classical, including composers from the 17th to early 20th century.
For more information about how the dataset was created and several applications of it, please see the paper where it was introduced: Enabling Factorized Piano Music Modeling and Generation with the MAESTRO Dataset.
For an example application of the dataset, see our blog post on Wave2Midi2Wave.
Additional information is available on the Magenta website: The MAESTRO Dataset
If you use the MAESTRO dataset in your work, please cite the paper where it was introduced:
Curtis Hawthorne, Andriy Stasyuk, Adam Roberts, Ian Simon, Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang,
Sander Dieleman, Erich Elsen, Jesse Engel, and Douglas Eck. "Enabling
Factorized Piano Music Modeling and Generation with the MAESTRO Dataset."
In International Conference on Learning Representations, 2019.
You can also use the following BibTeX entry:
@inproceedings{
hawthorne2018enabling,
title={Enabling Factorized Piano Music Modeling and Generation with the {MAESTRO} Dataset},
author={Curtis Hawthorne and Andriy Stasyuk and Adam Roberts and Ian Simon and Cheng-Zhi Anna Huang and Sander Dieleman and Erich Elsen and Jesse Engel and Douglas Eck},
booktitle={International Conference on Learning Representations},
year={2019},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=r1lYRjC9F7},
}
Please also make sure to specify which version of the dataset you are using.
MAESTRO is provided as a zip file containing the MIDI and WAV files as well as metadata in CSV and JSON formats. A MIDI-only archive of the dataset is also available
