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âAn Attractive and Varied Repertoireâ: The Guitar Revival of 1860â1900 and Victorian Song
Most modern histories of the classical guitar are devoted to solo playing. They therefore forego a different kind of history based upon the guitar used as an accompaniment for a singer. This article explores how that alternative history might be framed with reference to England during the long reign of Queen Victoria (1837â1901). This is the ideal laboratory for such an experiment, not least because the compositions of Catharina Pratten (1824â1895), the most influential guitar player of the day, are often thought to reveal a late-Victorian public with little interest in the guitar as a solo resource. Yet the newspaper record, here distilled into 1,405 separate performances, shows that there the guitar actually underwent a revival in England between about 1880 to 1900; it was, however, primarily a vogue for using the instrument as an accompaniment to songs, not for playing solo music. A substantial part of that song repertoire is recoverable, and the newspaper reports can often be collated with census records and trade directories to produce micro-histories of players. The article therefore works towards a social and musical history of the guitar at a time when the entertainment industry of Great Britain was fed by an inexhaustible supply of musicians, actors and songwriters that did not fail to encompass guitar-players.
A complete list of the data analyzed in this article is available in this issue at https://digitalcommons.du.edu/sbs/vol8/iss1/4
âAn Attractive and Varied Repertoireâ: Full-Data List
This document presents the complete set of data analyzed in Christopher Page, ââAn Attractive and Varied Repertoireâ: The Guitar Revival of 1860â1900 and Victorian Song,â Soundboard Scholar, no. 8 (2022), https://digitalcommons.du.edu/sbs/vol8/iss1/3
Biological Assessments of Six Selected Fishes, Amphibians, and Mussels in Illinois
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A comparative analysis of leadership skills development in Marine Corps training and education programs
This thesis analyzes the perceptions of a non-random sample of 210 officers and enlisted Marines in two locations. A researcher-developed survey and semi-structured interviews were administered to ascertain opinions of Marines concerning leadership development. An analysis of the content of leadership training and education courses was also conducted. This information was compared to contemporary leadership theory and relevant models of leadership. In general, leadership development provided is adequate, but is lacking in some areas of skill development, application of skills and values, and relevancy to contemporary leadership issues. Professional Military Education (PME) ge nerally provides relevant leadership training and education to enlisted personnel, but falls short of meeting the expectations of many officers.http://archive.org/details/acomparativenaly109453482Major, United States Marine CorpsCaptain, United States Marine CorpsApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited
Maritime Politics and Policy in the City of Ships
Along the Kennebec River, over 2,500 vessels were launched in Bath, âThe City of Ships,â from the 18th century to the present day. Shipbuilding transformed the townâits economy, global prominence, and architecture. This article examines Bath as a case study of the role of politics and policy in Maineâs maritime history. Shipbuilding positioned Bath at the center of national politics and at the center of the nationâs imperial ambitions, while also heavily influencing its architectural fabric and workforce
Creating and Implementing Diverse Development Strategies to Support Extension Centers and Programs
Declining government funding for higher education requires colleges and universities to seek alternative revenue streams, including through philanthropic fund-raising. Extension-based subject matter centers and other programs can benefit from the thoughtful supplementation of traditional revenue sources with individual, corporate, and private foundation philanthropy. In this article, we examine funding strategies identified in existing Extension literature and then describe the development strategy created for the William D. Ruckelshaus Center as a case study, emphasizing the importance of strong board leadership and cultivation of a diverse mix of income streams
The Evolution of the Far-UV Luminosity Function and Star Formation Rate Density of the Chandra Deep Field South from z=0.2-1.2 with Swift/UVOT
We use deep Swift UV/Optical Telescope (UVOT) near-ultraviolet (1600A to
4000A) imaging of the Chandra Deep Field South to measure the rest-frame far-UV
(FUV; 1500A) luminosity function (LF) in four redshift bins between z=0.2 and
1.2. Our sample includes 730 galaxies with u < 24.1 mag. We use two methods to
construct and fit the LFs: the traditional V_max method with bootstrap errors
and a maximum likelihood estimator. We observe luminosity evolution such that
M* fades by ~2 magnitudes from z~1 to z~0.3 implying that star formation
activity was substantially higher at z~1 than today. We integrate our LFs to
determine the FUV luminosity densities and star formation rate densities from
z=0.2 to 1.2. We find evolution consistent with an increase proportional to
(1+z)^1.9 out to z~1. Our luminosity densities and star formation rates are
consistent with those found in the literature, but are, on average, a factor of
~2 higher than previous FUV measurements. In addition, we combine our UVOT data
with the MUSYC survey to model the galaxies' ultraviolet-to-infrared spectral
energy distributions and estimate the rest-frame FUV attenuation. We find that
accounting for the attenuation increases the star formation rate densities by
~1 dex across all four redshift bins.Comment: 20 pages, 8 figures, 6 tables; accepted for publication in Ap
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