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The Legacy of Elise Hall
Get PDFOn the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the death of Elise Hall, a pioneering musician in the history of the saxophone.
The saxophone is a globally popular instrument, often closely associated with renowned players such as Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, or more recently, Kenny G. Less well known, however, is the historical presence of women saxophonists in the nineteenth century, shortly after the instrument’s invention. Elise Hall (1853–1924), a prominent wealthy socialite in Boston at the turn of the twentieth century, defied social norms by mastering the saxophone, an unconventional instrument for a woman of her time. Despite her career’s profound impact, Elise Hall remains relatively obscure in broader music communities. Her untiring work as an impresario, patron, and performer made a significant mark on the history of the instrument. Yet these contributions have been historically undervalued, largely due to gender bias.
This collection of essays, written by mainly women saxophonists/scholars, re-evaluates Elise Hall’s legacy beyond a discrete history, updating the narrative by highlighting the ways in which her identity and the saxophone itself have influenced historical accounts. By analyzing the sociocultural factors surrounding this innovative musician through a contemporary lens, the contributors challenge previously held narratives shaped by patriarchal structures and collectively affirm her place as one of the pioneers in the history of the saxophone.
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El legado de Elise Hall (1853-1924) hacia el saxofón bajo una mirada contemporánea
Get PDFElise Hall foi uma das primeiras saxofonistas na história do
saxofone. Uma recomendação médica e as suas inquietudes pessoais
fizeram com que se iniciasse no estudo deste jovem instrumento. Após
comprovar a situação do escasso repertorio que tinha o saxofone,
propôs-se a ampliá-lo fazendo um grande número de encommendas a
diferentes compositores da época, entre os quais podemos assinalar
Claude Debussy, Florent Schmitt, Vincent d’Indy ou André Caplet.
Para atingir os seus objetivos, Elise Hall teve que superar várias
dificuldades, não só profissionais, mas também críticas à sua pessoa
pelo facto de ser mulher.
Depois de realizar uma pesquisa para a recolha das peças,
contactamos com The New England Conservatory (Boston) e
conseguimos as partituras de um grande número de peças
encomendadas por Hall. A seguir, realizamos uma análise do uso do
saxofone procurando características comuns num número
representativo de peças, baseando-nos nomeadamente nas
características do impresionismo expostas na enciclopédia The New
Grove. Com o desenvolvimento deste trabalho poderemos ver se as
peças encomendadas tinham o objetivo de apresentar o saxofone como
um instrumento solista ou se na realidade Hall só pretendía atribuir-lhe
certa presença com a finalidade de dar a conhecer este instrumento a
um público maior, incluindo os compositores.
Por outro lado, durante a análise das peças pudemos comprovar
que muitas delas foram adaptadas posteriormente para outros
instrumentos. Em contraposição a este fato, decidimos investigar sobre
um dos compositores para saxofone mais reconhecidos, que além
disso, realizou uma adaptação de uma das peças encomendadas por
Elise Hall: Christian Lauba, cujas peças são criadas exclusivamente
para o saxofone, sendo impossível a sua execução noutro instrumento
distinto.
Desta maneira, poderemos observar a grande evolução do
tratamento dado por parte dos compositores ao mesmo instrumento ao
longo da históriaElise Hall (1853-1924) was one of the first saxophonists in the
history of the saxophone. A medical recommendation and her
personal interests made her start studying this young instrument. After
checking the situation of the repertoire of the moment, she proposed
herself to broaden it ordering a wide number of pieces to different
composers of that age, like Claude Debussy, FLorent Schmitt, Vincent
d`Indy or Andre Caplet. To reach her targets Elise Hall got through
several difficulties, not only professionals but also critics to herself
just for the fact of being a woman.
After doing research for collecting all the pieces, we contacted
The New England Conservatory of Music (Boston) and we got the
scores from a large number of pieces that had been ordered by Hall.
After that, we analyzed the use of the saxophone in order to find some
common characteristics using a representative number of pieces,
based on musical characteristics of the impressionism that appear in
the New Grove. Along this work, we will see if the purpose of the
pieces was to present the saxophone as a soloist instrument, or if Elise
Hall just wanted to present the instrument to the public in order to
make it better known to the audience, and to composers as well.
On the other hand, during the analysis of the scores we observed
that a large number of them were transposed later for other
instruments. In contrast to this fact, we decided to research on one of
the most known composers that adapted one of the scores ordered by
Elise Hall: Christian Lauba, whose scores are exclusively created for
a selected instrument, being impossible its interpretation by a different
one.
In this way, we will be able to see the great evolution of the way
the composers treated this instrument along the historyMestrado em Músic
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
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
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
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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