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Philip Livingston to John Kean, April 20, 1795
Full text linkPhilip Livingston of New York, NY, wrote to John Kean, addressed to Philadelphia, PA. Livingston discussed business, including responding to a letter sent by Susan concerning Mr. Simpson\u27s draft. He forwarded an insurance policy. The author was in poor health but too busy to rest. People included: Susan, Peter, Mr. Simpson, Morris. Places included: Philadelphia.https://digitalcommons.kean.edu/lhc_1790s/1250/thumbnail.jp
The Prepared Piano Music of John Cage: Towards an Understanding of Sounds and Preparations
No full textThe subject for this thesis is the prepared piano music of John Cage with particular attention focussed on the preparations that create the varying sonic pallets in this music. The thesis is divided into six chapters, each chapter fulfilling one of two tasks. Firstly they will provide for pianists an examination of ways in which Cage‟s instructions in the scores for preparing the piano can be interpreted, and it will highlight the difficulties that become apparent (and should be considered) when performing Cage‟s prepared piano music. The second function to be fulfilled will be to musicologists who wish to trace the development of Cage‟s prepared piano music with relation to his later chance determined music.
Chapter one traces the historical and aesthetic influences that were relevant to Cage in the creation of the prepared piano, and places it in an historical context.
Chapter two looks at John Cage‟s compositions for prepared piano and provide a thorough inventory of John Cage‟s prepared piano pieces. Chapter two also examines the possibilities for making suggestions for the recreation of Cage‟s preparations.
Chapter three examines the physical relationships between piano, strings and preparations.
Chapter four analyses the solo prepared piano pieces and highlights the compositional techniques that Cage used in the composition of the prepared piano pieces.
Chapter five looks at the reasoning for performer choice in relation to ambiguity discussed in chapter three
Chapter six explores the six movement work The Perilous Night, and uses it as a case study to identify and explain all of the issues discussed within this thesis
Stephen Roth to John Philip Trinkaus, February 7, 1977
No full textLetter to Trink, explaining that the author is sending his comments on Trinkaus's first three chapters of Cells into Organs that he had previously sent to publisher (see next entry for comments).Small typed letter1-pageCorrespondenc
An analysis of the correspondence and hagiographical works of Philip of Harvengt
No full textFor every famous author of the twelfth-century renaissance, there are numerous lesser-known writers. Despite being overshadowed by more brilliant scholars or those closer to the centre of important events, their voices add depth to the study of the intellectual history of this period. A founding member of one of the earliest Premonstratensian houses; a highly-educated and prolific author, much in demand as a hagiographer; and a vigorous defender of the clerical order, Philip of Harvengt is one such writer, and a worthy subject for study. This thesis examines two bodies of Philip’s works – his letters and his hagiographical writings – analysing the predominant and recurrent concerns and ideals expressed in them, and the means by which they are expressed.
The letters are carefully crafted works, examples of the literary labour which Philip writes is incumbent upon the cleric. The first part of this thesis approaches these letters in chapters on four themes: the role of the ecclesiastical prelate; the importance of learning; the relationship between religious orders; and Philip’s use of the motif of friendship. His hagiographical works, too, are examples of literary artistry, to move as well as to educate the audience. In the second part of the thesis, these will be discussed individually, with the first chapter analysing his vita of Oda, a nun attached to his own house, whom he portrays as a martyr. The succeeding chapters consider Philip’s rewritings of earlier vitae, and show how he managed his sources in order to produce vitae depicting their subjects according to his ideal model of sanctity.
Philip’s letters express concerns shared by contemporaries, reflecting anxieties surrounding roles and ideal forms of living in a period immediately following the first fervour of religious renewal. His hagiographies articulate ideals of sanctity, clarifying these when they are not made sufficiently explicit in earlier works, for the better edification of an audience pursuing this vita perfecta. Both letters and hagiographies are designed to exhort and instruct the reader or listener: above all, Philip is a teacher
Frontmatter of J.P. Trinkaus autobiography
No full textFront cover of the John P. Trinkaus autobiography, "Embryologist"Front cover includes the book title, "Embryologist: My eight decades in developmental biology', the author's name, "John Philip Trinkaus", and a black and white photograph of the author in a white t-shirt, wearing glasses, sitting at a microscope and grinningPublication
Philip P. Neely scrapbook of fugitive fiction, W.0022
No full textAbstract: Scrapbook containing handwritten notes and newspaper clippings related to Philip P. Neely's writingsScope and Content Note: This scrapbook contains newspaper clippings and handwritten notes related to Philip P. Neely's writings. Highlights of the collection include copies of the short story series "Threads: From the Life-Woof of Hal Hankins, Esq.," selections from the autobiographical column "Leaves from my Life-Book," and selections from a social column entitled "Pen and Ink Gossip."Biographical/Historical Note: Philip Philips Neely was born on 8 September 1819 in Rutherford County, Tennessee. He was a Methodist minister and author of several serialized novellas as well as several books of sermons. Neely and his first wife, Henrietta, had one child, John Edwin Polk, before she died in 1847 (presumably in childbirth) with the couple's second child. With his second wife, J. Alice, they had at least one daughter, Julia E.Philip Neely died on 9 November 1868, in Mobile, Alabama
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No full textDepth capabilities of neutron and synchrotron diffraction strain measurement instruments: Part I - The maximum feasible path length
Full text linkIn this paper an algorithm is presented for estimating the maximum feasible penetration path length for neutron and synchrotron X-ray strain measurement instruments. This reflects the attenuation and scattering capability of the material under examination, the incident flux and detector arrangement, the likely background signal, the required strain measurement accuracy, the sampling volume and the diffracting geometry. Its validity and generality is examined through a consideration of data collected using a number of instruments on a variety of materials. Two criteria for the maximum feasible path length are examined: one based on the maximum acquisition time, the other based on the minimum acceptable peak height to background ratio. As demonstrated in the companion paper [part II: Withers (2004). J. Appl. Cryst. 37, 607-612], the algorithm can be used to delineate those conditions under which neutron and synchrotron X-ray radiations can provide useful information and to identify which is most suited to any particular measurement task
Figurations of the family in fiction by Toni Morrison, John Updike, James Baldwin, and Philip Roth.
No full textMy dissertation examines Toni Morrison's, John Updike's, James Baldwin's, and Philip Roth's attempts to depict the biological family in relation to a national, figurative family. These authors' particular value to the body of post-World War II American fiction lies in their various approaches to portraying individuals enmeshed in confining versions of both real and metaphorical families. By defining American masculinity in terms of black and white cultural responses to each other, to perceived threats to--and sometimes from--traditional social models, and to perceived institutional assaults on crucial segments of the family, Morrison, Updike, Baldwin and Roth portray a fictive America structurally defined by its attitudes towards the family. In Toni Morrison's early novels, her black male characters shape themselves primarily--if unconsciously--after a broader American cultural model of masculinity. I examine Morrison's critique of both the subtle effects of the hegemonic culture upon the construction of African-American maleness, and the profound danger of these effects to the black family. John Updike portrays in his four Rabbit novels a white masculinity crippled by terror of its own decline. The fearful Harry Angstrom responds by compulsively fleeing his responsibilities as a husband and father. Updike structures Harry not as an American Everyman, but as a strategically flawed character who represents white middle-class male anxiety forced to a hyperbolic extreme. James Baldwin furnished his novels and short fiction with families who thrive only if they recognize the urgent need to battle desperately for the psychological and social survival of their children, whom he represents as the most fully endangered of African Americans. I conclude by exploring the ways in which Philip Roth's Nathan Zuckerman distorts his own psyche. Through self-lacerating strategies he distances himself from the sensibilities and traditions--especially specifically ethnic ones--of his childhood home. The male protagonists, for each author, either refuse or cannot sustain essential familial bonding. Their loss is America's loss.PhDAmerican literatureLanguage, Literature and LinguisticsUniversity of Michigan, Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studieshttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/130136/2/9712099.pd
Patterns of total mercury and methylmercury bioaccumulation in Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) along the West Antarctic Peninsula
No full textWe examined mercury (Hg) accumulation in juvenile and adult subpopulations of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) collected west of the Antarctic Peninsula. Samples were collected along a northern cross-shelf transect beginning near Anvers Island and farther south near the sea ice edge in the austral summers of 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2015. Regardless of geographical position,mean concentrations of total Hg and methylmercury (MeHg), the form of Hg that biomagnifies in marine food webs, were significantly higher in juvenile than adult krill in all years. In 2013, juvenile Antarctic krill collected along the coast near Anvers Island had significantly higher MeHg concentrations than krill collected farther offshore, and in 2013 and 2014, coastal juvenile krill exhibited some of the highest MeHg concentrations of all subpopulations sampled. Across all sampling years, collection in northern (sea ice-free) or southern (sea ice edge) transects did not affect MeHg concentrations of juvenile or adult krill, suggesting similar levels and routes of MeHg exposure across the latitudes sampled. Developmental stage, feeding near the coast, and annual variations in sea ice-driven primary and export production were identified as potentially important factors leading to greater MeHg accumulation in juvenile than adult krill. Krill dependent predators feeding primarily on juveniles may thus accumulate more MeHg than consumers foraging on older krill. These results report MeHg concentrations in Antarctic krill and will be useful for predicting Hg biomagnification in higher-level consumers in this productive Antarctic ecosystem.Peer reviewe
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