scholarly journals Rescuing a Heritage Database: Some Lessons from London Concert Life in the Eighteenth Century

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Simon McVeigh
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Open Access ◽  
Relational Database ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Subsequent Transformation ◽  
Exhaustive Study ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
Concert Life

Abstract The paper outlines the genesis and subsequent transformation of the database Calendar of London Concerts 1750–1800, now available as a dataset at https://www.doi.org/10.17026/dans-znv-3c2j. Originally developed during the 1980s, the database was used as a primary research tool in the preparation of articles and a 1993 monograph: the first comprehensive study of London’s flourishing public concert life in the later eighteenth century, which culminated in Haydn’s London visits in 1791–5. The database itself, extending to over 4000 records, was derived from an exhaustive study of London newspapers. Following the obsolescence of the relational database in which the material was initially stored, it has recently been transferred to a spreadsheet in csv format, publicly available with free open access. Issues arising out of the standardisation of concert data are explored, especially regarding the layout of complete concert programmes, and the strengths and limitations of the original design are analysed, within the context of the newly available version.

The Survival of English Opera in Nineteenth-Century Concert Life

2020 ◽  
pp. 294-315
Author(s):  
William Weber
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Classical Music ◽  
Critical Commentary ◽  
German Lieder ◽  
English Opera ◽  
Concert Life

This chapter shows how selections from English operas composed between the 1730s and the 1790s—chiefly by Thomas Arne, Charles Dibdin, William Shield, and Stephen Storace—became standard repertory in concerts throughout the nineteenth century. Such pieces were performed at benefit concerts organized by individual musicians and at events given by local ensembles that blended songs with virtuoso pieces and orchestral numbers. Critical commentary on such songs justified their aesthetic legitimacy as groups separate from pieces deemed part of classical music. By 1900, songs by Arne, Storace, and even Dibdin were often sung in recitals along with German lieder and pieces from seventeenth- or eighteenth-century Italy or France. The solidity of this tradition contributed to the revival of the operas themselves from the 1920s, most often Arne’s Artaxerxes (1762). This chapter is paired with Rutger Helmers’s “National and international canons of opera in tsarist Russia.”

Sewing Linens

2020 ◽  
pp. 178-207
Author(s):  
Susan North
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
And Shifts ◽  
The Cost

The transformation of flat linen textiles to underwear is described in Chapter 8. The cost of linen and the need to own as much underclothes and accessories as possible to maintain standards of propriety forced a strict economy on making these garments. All underwent the rigours of early modern laundry and needed to be firmly sewn together, yet finely enough to be worn comfortably under other clothing. Very little literature in the early modern period documents these processes, therefore, reconstruction is the primary research tool. The exercise of remaking linen shirts and shifts highlights the seamstress’s skills and knowledge, and emphasizes what impact different qualities of linen would have on the durability of the finished garments and cost of their making. How shirts and shifts could be ‘ready-made’ is also explored.

scholarly journals Using the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) and Federated Virtual Observatory Archives for Multiwavelength Studies of AGNs

2002 ◽  
Vol 184 ◽  
pp. 379-388
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Mazzarella ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Present Status ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Virtual Observatory ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
The World ◽  
Multi Wavelength ◽  
Globally Distributed ◽  
The Universe

AbstractWe live in an exciting era that offers increasing opportunities for people all over the world to make discoveries about the Universe using interconnected archives on the Internet as a primary research tool. We review how NED (http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu) can be used in concert with globally distributed online archives to perform multi-wavelength, crosscorrelated studies of AGNs and other galaxy types. The present status and planned evolution of NED capabilities are discussed.

The Design of the Roman Mosaic at Hinton St. Mary

1976 ◽  
Vol 56 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. S. Painter
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Original Design ◽  
Byzantine Church

SummaryTwo problems in the design of the Hinton St. Mary mosaic are (1) that the elements of the design are placed the wrong way round if the mosaic was planned to be seen like a carpet; and (2) whether the bust of Christ is an original design or whether it is based on a formal set of rules. There is evidence to suggest (1) that the design of the mosaic as a whole may have been conceived as the decoration of a ceiling, and (2) that rules to which the bust of Christ conforms were still in use in the eighteenth century in Byzantine church-painting, and that there is a genuine continuity between the two points in time.

Building an open access African studies repository using Web 2.0 principles

First Monday ◽  
2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Winterbottom ◽  
James North
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Relational Database ◽  
African Studies ◽  
Online Tools

This paper describes the aims and design of an open access African Studies Repository (ASR) (http://www.africanstudiesrepository.org/) that is under development. The ASR is a relational database compatible with the open repository platform DSpace but incorporating the participatory online tools collectively known as ‘Web 2.0’. The aim of the ASR is to create a space where everyone who works on Africa, both inside and outside the continent, can store their work, access useful resources, make contacts, and join discussions.

A Life Recovered: Mary Hamilton 1756-1816

2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-46 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lisa Crawley
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Intellectual Elite ◽  
The Rich ◽  
The Many ◽  
Significant Figures ◽  
Insight Into ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
Women’S History

Through her own words, Mary Hamilton demonstrates the rich resources available for the study of an elite womans life during the latter part of the eighteenth-century and allows us to resurrect more fully the life of a member of an elite circle of women during this period. Her diaries reveal the many opportunities that she had to meet with a number of the significant figures of her day, and shed light on how her academic efforts were perceived by those around her. This article shows how her writings offer researchers an insight into eighteenth-century society as viewed and lived by a woman who was close not only to the centre of high society but also to the intellectual elite of the day. It considers how valuable a resource the diaries and papers are as a potential research tool not only for the study of women‘s history but as a rich resource for the period.

scholarly journals Nuclear Receptor Signaling: A Home for Nuclear Receptor and Coregulator Signaling Research

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. nrs.12006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil J. McKenna ◽  
Ronald M. Evans ◽  
Bert W. O'Malley
Keyword(s):  
Open Access ◽  
Nuclear Receptor ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Receptor Signaling ◽  
Primary Research ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Signaling Field

The field of nuclear receptor and coregulator signaling has grown into one of the most active and interdisciplinary in eukaryotic biology. Papers in this field are spread widely across a vast number of journals, which complicates the task of investigators in keeping current with the literature in the field. In 2003, we launched Nuclear Receptor Signaling as an Open Access reviews, perspectives and methods journal for the nuclear receptor signaling field. Building on its success and impact on the community, we have added primary research and dataset articles to this list of article categories, and we now announce the re-launch of the journal this month. Here we will summarize the rationale that informed the creation and expansion of the journal, and discuss the possibilities for its future development.

FOUR STEPS TOWARDS PARNASSUS: JOHANN DAVID HEINICHEN'S METHOD OF KEYBOARD IMPROVISATION AS A MODEL OF BAROQUE COMPOSITIONAL PEDAGOGY

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 133-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEREK REMEŠ
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Music Making ◽  
Baroque Music ◽  
Gradus Ad Parnassum ◽  
Historical Accounts ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Scholarly Attention ◽  
Comprehensive Study ◽  
Practical Teaching ◽  
Pedagogical Framework

AbstractJohann David Heinichen's treatise Der General-Bass in der Composition (Dresden, 1728) is the most comprehensive study of thoroughbass ever written, yet it has been continually overshadowed in historical accounts by works published in the same decade by Jean-Philippe Rameau (Traité de l'Harmonie) and J. J. Fux (Gradus ad Parnassum). Despite Heinichen's nuanced treatment of a wide variety of musical subjects, Der General-Bass has yet to receive wide acclaim, in large part because it lacks a reductive pedagogical framework that can rival Rameau's basse fondamentale or Fux's species in simplicity and immediate appeal. Yet fortunately, the ‘partimento renaissance’ of the last decade has brought renewed scholarly attention to the centrality of thoroughbass is the only acceptable break in eighteenth-century music-making. Thus the time is ripe for a reappraisal of Heinichen's monumental work. On at least one occasion, Heinichen does indeed outline a pedagogical method of eminent simplicity: his four-step instruction in how to improvise a prelude at the keyboard. According to Heinichen, this method, which seems to be completely unknown today, is to be understood not only as instruction in improvising, but also as training for beginning composers. In explicating the pedagogy of one of eighteenth-century Europe's leading composer-theorists, this article contributes to both the historically informed analysis and the practical teaching of baroque music today.

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