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Page 19 from Catalogue of the Officers and Pupils of the Troy Female Seminary, Conditions of Admittance
No full textPage 19 from Catalogue of the Officers and Pupils of the Troy Female Seminary, detailing their Conditions of Admittance and extra charges for things such as music, dancing, art, and chemistry.https://dune.une.edu/studious/1015/thumbnail.jp
Troy female seminary. Mr. & Mrs. John H. Willard, principals. [Circular of the school.] Troy, Rensselaer County. N. Y. [n. d.].
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Music Education At The Troy Female Seminary: 1817-1904
Full text linkWhen examining the historical origins of music education in the United States there exists a gap in the research concerning female music educators. There have been many calls to action by researchers with the aim of focusing research on the contribution of women to music education. This project sought to document details about musical studies and female music educators at one institution of higher learning. The Troy Female Seminary was founded by Emma Hart Willard in 1817 and exists today as an independent secondary school for females (renamed the Emma Willard School in 1895). Relevant books, journal articles, master’s theses, and dissertations were reviewed. Although there have been volumes written about Willard, and her writings are available to read, little published material exists as to the musical studies of her students and the teachers that guided their learning. After reviewing related literature in early American music education and female music educators (ca. 1850–1920), two names of female music educators at the school, Miss Angelica Gilbert and Faustina Hasse Hodge (1820–1895), emerged. More information was needed to adequately answer the research questions of the project. Two investigations at the school archives in Troy, New York, produced information about female and male music educators, how music was explored as a discipline in early female education, and music examinations given each year for graduating students. Piano study and group study have been a part of the curriculum of the school since its opening in 1820, however musical study quickly expanded to include harp, voice, and guitar lessons. The school was host to The Seminary Conservatory, a program led by Miss Marion Sim from 1894–1905. With the addition of the conservatory faculty to the staff at Tory Female Seminary, music education grew to include harmony, counterpoint, vocal sight-reading, composition, and other courses. An investigation of an alumnae publication documented that sixty-four alumnae of the Troy Female Seminary (from 1824 through 1872) were music educators for some part of their lives. Information about other influential music educators at the school and conservatory is presented
Letter from Emma Willard to Alden Partridge, 19 January 1826
No full textEmma Willard writes from Troy Female Seminary in Troy, New York, to Alden Partridge in Middletown, Connecticut, regarding her son, John H. Willard, who she is sending to the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in Middletown; she hopes to have John enter West Point and discusses his health, character, course of study, and textbooks.Emma Willard was a pioneer of female education in the United States; her son, John Hart Willard, took over the running of the Troy Female Seminary after his mother left it. Transcription by Robert V. Guptill. Transcriptions may be subject to human error
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
Full text link“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
Full text linkWe 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
Full text linkWe 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
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