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Shifting ideals of tone in Grand Pianos (1880-1904) and their Implications for Performance Practice
No full textSince invention to the present day, the piano has undergone tremendous technological improvement, driven principally by musical tastes but also influenced by societal, economic, and environmental factors. Although late nineteenth-century pianos have been less often studied than their earlier counterparts, this thesis demonstrates that there was significant change in the build, use and reception of the instrument between 1880 and 1904. In the framework of piano development during this period, ‘tone’ is a subject of particular significance at both an individual and collective level, and invoke ideas transcending beyond social groupings such as age, gender, education, culture, and professions. Scrutiny of how piano tones were shaped and advocated by piano manufacturers, pianists, critics, and other influential bodies can lead to an understanding of musical stylistic preferences and diversity of pianism in the late nineteenth-century; Moreover, ideals of tone relate to notions in the broader fin-de-siècle culture, such as nationalism, industrialisation, and globalisation. The search for ideals of late nineteenth-century piano tone in this thesis goes further than the inquiry of documentary evidence of musicological and organological research to combining practice-led investigations of extant pianos from the period under consideration. As a pianist, I play on and compare 17 pianos (1870-1910), most of which are from the National Trust collection. Empirical measurements of the instrument and its sound, as well as auto-ethnographical study of my own experience of playing on the pianos a carefully selected repertoire, reveal that a broad range of factors both intrinsic (e.g. action weight) and extrinsic (e.g. repertoire compatibility) can influence one’s conception of the ‘ideal’ tone. Through practical experimentation to uncover subtle nuances of piano tone, I propose new insights into understanding nineteenth-century pianistic styles and performance practice, and offer an instrument-informed interpretation to approach a broad swathe of repertory
Dataset: Shifting Ideals of Tone in Grand Pianos (1880-1904) and their Implications on Performance Practice
No full textThis dataset supports the Joyce Tang (2021), Shifting Ideals of Tone in Grand Pianos (1880-1904) and their Implications for Performance Practice, University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
The dataset contains:
Supporting materials for Chapter Three: Piano Tones in Concert. A spreadsheet titled 'Appendix C_Pops Concerts (Nov 1880-Apr 1901) solo repertoire.xlsx', which detailed dates, pianists, solo repertoire played, and pianos used at the 819 Monday and Saturday popular concerts at St. James' Hall.
Supporting materials for Chapter Four: Piano Tones in Sound. Selected audio recordings (47) on late nineteenth-century pianos; pianist: Joyce Tang.</span
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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