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Unraveling The Discussion Entre Les Carulistes Et Les Molinistes (Paris, 1828), Damián Martín-Gil

Soundboard Scholar

In 1828, the French guitarist Charles de Marescot published a small booklet called La Guitaromanie, a collection of pieces for the guitar. It includes a caricature, entitled Discussion entre les Carulistes et les Molinistes, in which two opposing bands of guitarists are engaged in a fierce fight. Although, several scholars have proposed a variety of possible motives for such a shocking image, this issue has never been subjected to close examination. The article analyses the veracity of the known theories, making for the first time a comparative study between the method books of both Ferdinando Carulli and Francesco …

Monitored Freedom: Swing Rhythm In The Jazz Arrangements Of Roland Dyens, Milton Mermikides

Soundboard Scholar

This paper provides an analysis of jazz swing in the work of classical guitarist and composer Roland Dyens. Drawing on Dyens’s published and recorded arrangements of jazz standards, I study both his notation and his performance of swing, starting with a preliminary study of his collection Night and Day and proceeding to a detailed analysis of Nuages—his notated arrangement and four recorded performances. To provide context for Dyens’s stylistic referents, I analyze Django Reinhardt’s 1940 ensemble performance of Nuages. Throughout the discussion, I utilize digital audio analysis and models of microtiming to reveal Dyens’s sophisticated understanding and execution …

Breaking The Matrix: Transcribing Bartók And Ligeti For The Guitar Using A New Capo System, Katalin Koltai

Soundboard Scholar

This paper demonstrates new transcriptions for the guitar of four piano pieces from the twentieth century: “The Night’s Music” from Bartók’s suite Out of Doors and Ligeti’s Musica ricercata, nos. 1, 2, and 7. The transcriptions deploy various newly invented single- and double-string magnet capos: I describe their design and, drawing on the work of De Souza, explain how their use transforms the affordances of the fretboard. In combination with scordaturas, the capos can be used to generate a series of radically altered open-string sets. Turning to the transcriptions of Bartók and Ligeti: by observing the pitch centers within …

Julian Bream (1933–2020), Fábio Zanon

Soundboard Scholar

No abstract provided.

Timbre-Based Composition For The Guitar: A Non-Guitarist’S Approach To Mapping And Notation, Jason Noble, Steve Cowan

Soundboard Scholar

Composing for the guitar can be intimidating for non-guitarists, but their fresh perspectives can uncover new ways of thinking about music for the instrument. This paper discusses timbre-based composition, an approach to writing for guitar that may be more intuitive for non-guitarist composers than traditional polyphonic composition. The rich palette of timbres available on the guitar, including pitched and nonpitched sounds, is conceived as primary compositional material. Issues of notation and mapping are addressed, focusing on three categories of mappings: (i) physical mapping from notational symbols onto physical objects, such as parts of the guitar; (ii) analogical mapping from …

Leo Brouwer: Guitar Sonatas, Ricardo Gallén, Nathan Cornelius

Soundboard Scholar

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Sor's Guitar Music—A Fresh Start, Erik Stenstadvold

Soundboard Scholar

This article addresses the considerations and decisions that underlie a new critical edition of Sor’s guitar music that is being prepared by the author. Sor’s oeuvre for guitar survives almost exclusively in early printed editions, not autograph manuscripts, so such a task begins with a reassessment, based on historical and text-critical criteria, of which editions he was likely to have been involved in himself and which we can therefore trust the most. As a result, this new edition partly uses different original sources as models than other modern editions. Meissonnier’s later versions of opp. 1–23 from 1826, claimed to be …

“So That The Soul Would Dance In You,” By Jukka Savijoki, Kenneth Sparr

Soundboard Scholar

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Poetic Walking Across Mobile Boundaries: Contemporary Southeast Asian Narratives In The Work Of Trinh T. Minh-Ha And Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Weiying Yu

Master's Projects and Capstones

This research investigates how personal politics, the poetics of cinematic narrative form, and current Southeast Asian landscapes are embodied in the work of filmmakers/artists Trinh T. Minh-ha (b. 1952, Hanoi, Vietnam) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok, Thailand). Trinh and Apichatpong’s transnational reflections and radical poetics challenge the West as the authoritative domain of modern knowledge, evoking a border rupture that questions hegemonic definitions of culture, history, geography, and society. Synthesizing art and politics, their works create experimental spaces to navigate the multidimensional consciousness associated with the Asia Pacific and global political issues of immigration, refugeeism, military action resistance, and …

Soundboard Scholar No. 6: Cover

Soundboard Scholar

Our cover image is an adaptation by Colleen Gates of two images by Milton Mermikides of beat circles, discussed in his article "Monitored Freedom" (in this issue, pp. 36–54). In each circle, a typical range of swing values is marked up with rhythmic cents (in 5-cent intervals) alongside notated landmarks with “harmonic ratio” labels. Subjective descriptive terms are also included.

The Sunset Song Of Religion, Or, Have We Ever Been Post-Secular?, Matthew Wickman

Studies in Scottish Literature

A discussion of the treatment and presence of religion in Sunset Song, the first novel in Lewis Grassic Gibbon's trilogy A Scots Quair, with some general reflections on religion and literature, and discussion of "post-secularity"

The Autobiography Of Daniel Parker, Frontier Universalist, Daniel Parker, David Torbett

Ohio University Press Open Access Books

A vastly informative and rare early-American pioneer autobiography rescued from obscurity.

In this remarkable memoir, Daniel Parker (1781–1861) recorded both the details of everyday life and the extraordinary historical events he witnessed west of the Appalachian Mountains between 1790 and 1840. Once a humble traveling salesman for a line of newly invented clothes washing machines, he became an outspoken advocate for abolition and education. With his wife and son, he founded Clermont Academy, a racially integrated, coeducational secondary school—the first of its kind in Ohio.

However, Parker’s real vocation was as a self-ordained, itinerant preacher of his own brand of …

Notes, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Treasurer's Report, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

By-Laws Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Minutes Of The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 35th annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society convened at Bethesda-by-the-Sea, Palm Beach, Florida, on Tuesday, January 26, 1937, at ten o’clock in the forenoon.

The Irving Bacheller Essay Contest In Florida History: Historic Landmarks Of My County, John Pikula

Florida Historical Quarterly

Of the many landmarks of the Halifax country, one of which probably the least is known is the old Bulow Plantation, the remains of which are found near the old King’s Road approximately eleven miles north of the city of Ormond. Owing to the extreme difficulty in gaining access to the place, it is but seldom frequented and consequently little known. But this does not signify its lack of historical value. On the contrary, it is quite the opposite. For it was not only the most extensive plantation ever to exist in the Halifax country, but it also was occupied …

The Irving Bacheller Essay Contest In Florida History: Braden Castle, Thelma Gray

Florida Historical Quarterly

Almost a century has passed since a wagon train of brave pioneers broke the stillness of the Florida wilds. Included in this caravan was a well-known Virginian, Dr. Joseph Braden, who, with his family, was seeking a location suitable for permanent settlement.

The Panton, Leslie Papers: Letters Of Governor Gayoso To William Panton, 1797, Manuel Gayoso De Lemos

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The Defences Of The Floridas: Report Of Captain James Gadsden, Aide-De-Camp To General Andrew Jackson, James Gadsden

Florida Historical Quarterly

This report was secured by Dr. Mark F. Boyd, whom readers of the Quarterly know well, from the original in the files of the Intelligence Division, Engineers Corps, War Dept. Washington. In an early issue of the Quarterly Dr. Boyd will give us a paper on the so-called Negro Fort which will be an introduction to a series of letters written near the site of the fort by Edmund Doyle, trader and representative of John Forbes and Company (successors to Panton, Leslie and Company) to Forbes, and James and John Innerarity, members of that firm (1808-1817).

Early Orange Culture In Florida And The Epocal Cold Of 1835, T. Frederick Davis

Florida Historical Quarterly

One of Ponce de Leon’s ambitions was to grow fruit in Florida that His Majesty, the Emperor Charles V of Spain, might be served therewith, and when he embarked upon his voyage to colonize Florida he carried seeds of all kinds for planting. Probably the orange was included and possibly on the shore of Charlotte Harbor the first orange tree in Florida grew in 1521; or perhaps Narvaez or DeSoto included oranges in his commissariat and left seed here to germinate into trees? These are interesting thoughts; but we turn from speculation to historical record for the following account

The Union Bank Of Tallahassee: An Experiment In Territorial Finance, Kathryn T. Abbey

Florida Historical Quarterly

In view of the recent financial confusion in the United States, similar difficulties of the Florida of a century ago assume more than a passing interest. The problem of self development has always been pressing for Florida; since the days of the purchase from Spain exaggerated claims of economic opportunity have lured the investor sometimes to sound wealth and sometimes, alas, to the reverse. The first Florida boom was launched in 1821 when the United States government set itself the task of raising the five million dollar purchase price from the sale of the lands just acquired. These internal improvement …

Title Page, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

Title page for Volume 15, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents

Notice Of Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

In accordance with the revised charter adopted in annual meeting on November 17, the next annual meeting of the Florida Historical Society, for the election of officers and the transaction of other business, will be held on January 26, 1937.

Treasurer's Report, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

The President's Address And Report, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Minutes Of The Annual Meeting Of The Florida Historical Society, Florida Historical Society

Florida Historical Quarterly

The 34th Annual Meeting of the Florida Historical Society was held in the auditorium of the P. K. Yonge Laboratory School at Gainesville, Florida, at eleven o’clock in the forenoon, on Tuesday, November 17th, 1936.

The Panton, Leslie Papers: Mucklesaopay, The Singer (Indian Chief) To William Panton, Mucklesaopay (The Singer)

Florida Historical Quarterly

No abstract provided.

Two Uncollected Letters Of Andrew Jackson, Andrew Jackson

Florida Historical Quarterly

The above letter has been presented to The Florida Historical Society by Miss Gertrude N. L’Engle, a grand daughter of Thomas Baltzell, law partner of Joseph M. White to whom it was written.

Public Education In Spanish St. Augustine, Joseph B. Lockey

Florida Historical Quarterly

A school for white children existed in St. Augustine as early as 1606. Whether it continued to function during the rest of this first period of Spanish dominion is a question that cannot now be answered. But if it did survive, it must have come to a close on the cession of the province to the British in 1763; for the change of sovereignty was followed by a general abandonment of the territory by the Spanish inhabitants. When the Spanish came back twenty years later the British in turn departed. With the restoration of sovereignty went the restoration of the …