‘Distant Reading’ in French Music Criticism

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-25
Author(s):  
Estelle Joubert
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Music Criticism ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
French Music ◽  
Gabriel Faure ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Text Searching ◽  
Large Corpus

This article offers a series of experiments exploring the potential for ‘distant reading’ in French music criticism. ‘Distant reading’, a term first coined by literary theorist Franco Moretti, refers to quantitative approaches that allow for new insights into a large corpus of texts by aggregating data. While the main corpus employed here is the Revue et gazette musicale de Paris (1831–1877), I also use secondary corpora of reviews of Félicien David's Herculanum in 1859, Berlioz's reviews of Gluck and Beethoven in the Journal des débats and reviews that mention Gabriel Fauré in the Library of Congress’ Chronicling America database. My experiments employ a text analysis tool named Voyant, built by Geoffrey Rockwell and Stéfan Sinclair, thereby also offering a basic introduction to the range of visualizations employed in distant reading. My experiments focus on areas in which quantitative methods are particularly well suited to generating new knowledge: corpus-wide visualizations and queries, moving beyond traditional text searching, investigations of music critics’ authorial styles and detecting sentiment in reviews, and finally, to geographies of music criticism.

On the (non)utility of Juilland’s D to measure lexical dispersion in large corpora

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (4) ◽  
pp. 439-464 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Biber ◽  
Randi Reppen ◽  
Erin Schnur ◽  
Romy Ghanem
Keyword(s):  
Target Word ◽  
Uniform Distribution ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Effective Range ◽  
Alternative Measure ◽  
Effective Measure ◽  
Series Of Experiments ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Large Corpus

This paper explores the effectiveness of Juilland’s D as a measure of vocabulary dispersion in large corpora. Through a series of experiments using the BNC, we explored the influence of three variables: the number of corpus-parts used for the computation of D, the frequency of the target word, and the distributions of those words. The experiments demonstrate that the effective range for D is greatly reduced when computations are based on a large number of corpus-parts: even words with highly skewed distributions have D values indicating a relatively uniform distribution. We also briefly explore an alternative measure, Gries’ DP (Gries 2008), showing that it is a more reliable and effective measure of dispersion in a large corpus divided into many parts. In conclusion, we discuss the implications of these findings for quantitative methods applied to the creation of vocabulary lists as well as research questions in other areas of corpus linguistics.

scholarly journals ETAT: Expository Text Analysis Tool

2002 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo Vidal-Abarca ◽  
Héctor Reyes ◽  
Ramiro Gilabert ◽  
Javier Calpe ◽  
Emilio Soria ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Expository Text ◽  
Analysis Tool

scholarly journals FAKTOR-FAKTOR YANG MEMPENGARUHI MINAT BERWIRAUSAHA PADA MAHASISWA JURUSAN MANAJEMEN FAKULTAS EKONOMI UNIVERSITAS ISLAM KALIMANTAN MUHAMMAD ARSYAD AL–BANJARY BANJARMASIN

2020 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Periyadi Peri ◽  
Sri Bulkia Sri Bulkia ◽  
Risnawati Risnawati
Keyword(s):  
Family Environment ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Student Interest ◽  
Technological Environment ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Future ◽  
Data Analysis Tool ◽  
Future 2 ◽  
Environment Influence

: The main objective in this research is to study and analyze (1) How entrepreneurial factors consisting of social and family environment, innovation and creative, and technological environment influence the interest in entrepreneurship. (2) How does the social and family environment influence the interests of entrepreneurship. (3) How the influence of innovation and creativity on entrepreneurial interest. (4) How is the influence of the technological environment on entrepreneurial interest. The targets in this study include (1) the results of these researchers can be input for other researchers to conduct similar studies in the future. (2) Input materials can be used to enhance the development of student interest in entrepreneurship. (3) The results of this study are expected to be used as evaluations and useful information to make improvements oriented to the future, especially on students' interest in entrepreneurship. This research was conducted with quantitative methods and using analysis methods with SPSS Windows For Data as a data analysis tool.

scholarly journals Pengaruh Kompensasi Terhadap Kinerja Karyawan yang di Mediasi Kepuasan Kerja pada PT ISS Cikarang

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 238-247
Author(s):  
Suwandi Suwandi ◽  
Mahbub Mandahuri
Keyword(s):  
Job Satisfaction ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Employee Performance ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Path Coefficient ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Analysis Method ◽  
Online Surveys ◽  
The Relationship

The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is an effect of compensation on job satisfaction mediated by job satisfaction. The object of research at PT ISS Cikarang. The research was conducted using quantitative methods with SEM Smart PLS software as an analysis tool. The number of samples obtained by using a random sampling technique using the Slovin formula totaled 97 respondents. Data collection was carried out using google form in filling out online surveys. The data analysis method used is the R-square test, Bootstrapping, Path Coefficient, and Specific indirect effects. The results of this study indicate that compensation has an effect on employee performance, compensation has a positive and significant effect on job satisfaction, job satisfaction affects employee performance, job satisfaction is able to provide a positive influence in mediating the relationship between compensation and employee performance in PT ISS Cikarang.

scholarly journals Content analytics for curriculum review: A learning analytics use case for exploration of learner context

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah P. Macfadyen
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Student Writing ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Curriculum Analysis ◽  
Curriculum Review ◽  
Curriculum Renewal ◽  
Text Content ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Traditional Approaches

Curriculum analysis is a core component of curriculum renewal. Traditional approaches to curriculum analysis are manual, slow and subjective, but some studies have suggested that text analysis might usefully be employed for exploration of curriculum. This concise paper outlines a pilot use case of content analytics to support curriculum review and analysis. I have co-opted Quantext – a relatively user-friendly text analysis tool designed to help educators explore student writing – for analysis of the text content of the 17 courses in our online master’s program. Quantext computed descriptive metrics and readability indices for each course and identified top keywords and ngrams per course. Compilation and comparison of these revealed frequent curricular topics and networks of thematic relationships between courses, in ways that both individual educators and curriculum committees can interpret and use for decision-making. Future Quantext features will allow even more sophisticated identification of curricular gaps and redundancies.

Monitoring and Evaluation

2021 ◽  
pp. 99-116
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Quantitative Methods ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Analysis Tool ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Monitoring ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Methods ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Social Change Organizations

This chapter focuses on how monitoring and evaluation plays a pivotal role in the design and execution of initiatives leading up to social transformation. The work evidences that measuring effectiveness is one of the biggest challenges that many social change organizations face; this chapter addresses this issue. It explores and suggests qualitative and quantitative methods to track progress and how to measure growth. Among these methods is a narrative analysis tool that the authors have developed to evidence the ways in which a person's story of self, or the story of a group, transforms overtime. The methods suggested here respond to both local needs and global measures of success, such as the United Nations' sustainable development goals. Conceptually, this section draws from the notions of participatory action monitoring and evaluation as discussed by Chevalier and Buckles, and of the power relations that mediate processes of evaluation discussed by Chapela and Jarillo.

The Catholic Church in Republican Musical Aesthetics

2021 ◽  
pp. 23-64
Author(s):  
Jennifer Walker
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
Sacred Music ◽  
Musical Aesthetics ◽  
Modern Music ◽  
Religious Music ◽  
French Music ◽  
Gabriel Faure ◽  
Compositional Styles ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Catholic Church

Debates concerning the appropriate nature of sacred music in France persisted throughout the nineteenth century. While many figures within the Catholic Church took the more traditional stance in their proclamation of plainchant as the genre of sacred music par excellence, other priests and church musicians insisted that more modern styles of composition were not only appropriate but necessary for French Catholics. This debate was not limited to the confines of the Church: Republican composers, for their part, also contributed their views on the matter, which largely stated that the realms of sacred and secular were not mutually exclusive. This chapter outlines the debate on both sides in order to reveal how Republican composers absorbed the numerous criteria involved in the composition of sacred music into their secular constructions of French music. It also reveals the discursive slippages between Catholic denigrations of “modern” religious music and “secular” compositional styles: more often than not, modern religious music was strikingly close to the Catholic ideal, even when it was written by a decidedly secular composer for non-liturgical use. A study of Contes mystiques, a collection of twelve mélodies written by such composers as Gabriel Fauré, Théodore Dubois, Henri Maréchal, and Pauline Viardot, reveals how Republican composers absorbed the numerous criteria involved in the composition of sacred music and how this modern music was strikingly similar to the Catholic ideal, even when written by “secular” composers for non-liturgical use.

The Doxa of Reading

PMLA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 132 (3) ◽  
pp. 636-642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Goldstone
Keyword(s):  
Text Analysis ◽  
Literary History ◽  
World Literature ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Sociology Of Literature ◽  
Distant Reading ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
Semantic Transformation

Reading Franco Moretti's Graphs, Maps, Trees as a late-stage graduate student in 2008 was invigorating. Here was an approach to literary history free from the pieties of close reading, committed to empiricism, seeking to fulfill, with its “materialist conception of form,” the promise of the sociology of literature (92). And, at the time, it seemed natural that the way to follow the path laid out by Moretti in Graphs and in the essays he had published over the previous decade was to go to my computer, polish my rusty programming skills, and start making graphs. Yet reconsidering Moretti's Distant Reading now, one is struck by how nondigital the book is. In fact, the meaning of distant reading has undergone a rapid semantic transformation. In “Conjectures on World Literature,” originally published in 2000, Moretti introduces the phrase to describe “a patchwork of other people's research, without a single direct textual reading” (Distant Reading 48). Today, however, distant reading typically refers to computational studies of text. Introducing a 2016 cluster of essays called “Text Analysis at Scale,” Matthew K. Gold and Lauren Klein employ the term to speak of “using digital tools to ‘read’ large swaths of text” (Introduction); in his contribution to the cluster, Ted Underwood embraces “distant reading” as a name for applying machine-learning techniques to unstructured text. Discussions of distant reading have become discussions of computation with text, even if no section of Distant Reading features the elaborate computations found in the Stanford Literary Lab pamphlets to which Moretti has contributed.

French Music Criticism and Musicology at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: New Journals, New Networks

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-32
Author(s):  
Michel Duchesneau
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Music Criticism ◽  
Musical Culture ◽  
French Music ◽  
Through Diffusion

This article examines the efforts of French musicologists to create a specialized journal at the turn of the twentieth century that would clearly associate music criticism and musicology. Using as case study a set of music journals, from La Revue d’histoire et de critique musicales to the Mercure musical and the Revue S.I.M. that followed, I establish the connections that brought together the nascent musicological milieu, the musical press and the artistic affinities among the principal actors in their attempt to create a new network of music critics guided by musicological exigencies. Jules Combarieu, Romain Rolland, Louis Laloy, Jean Marnold, Émile Vuillermoz and Jules Écorcheville are some of the musicologists engaged in this project between 1900 and 1914. But historical contingencies make this project a relative utopia, and requirements of the young musicology hardly meet that of a music criticism divided between disciplinary tradition and the necessity to support contemporary music. After the war, with the founding of a new Revue musicale, René Prunières, prudently, would not hire musicologists to develop a music criticism. Instead, he took up the characteristically Republican project of promoting musical culture, and thus responding to the interests of both the cultivated bourgeoisie and the musical, literary and artistic milieus through diffusion of music knowledge.

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