3.774 hyper-Pynchon; e-Persian; polyglots; multimusic (107)
Willard McCarty (MCCARTY@vm.epas.utoronto.ca)
Wed, 22 Nov 89 20:20:40 EST
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 774. Wednesday, 22 Nov 1989.
(1) Date: Wed, 22 Nov 89 11:44:31 EST (15 lines)
From: Stuart Moulthrop <SMOULTHR@YALEVM>
Subject: Hypertextual Pynchon
(2) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 89 15:13:31 EST (12 lines)
From: Jeffrey Perry <JEFF@PUCC>
Subject: Transliterated Persian
(3) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 89 22:47:21 EST (21 lines)
From: Roland Hutchinson <R.RDH@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: multilingual Humanist
(4) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 89 17:50:06 EST (30 lines)
From: Roland Hutchinson <R.RDH@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Beethoven's Tenth
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 89 11:44:31 EST
From: Stuart Moulthrop <SMOULTHR@YALEVM>
Subject: Hypertextual Pynchon
I've been prototyping a hypertext resource on Thomas Pynchon's _Gravity's
Rainbow_ in HyperCard. I originally developed the stack as an aid for
my own research and then decided to share it with my seminar students
this fall. The result is a megabyte of text (quotations comprising
about 15% of the novel), annotations, queries, responses to queries,
illustrations, music, and hypertext links. I'd be happy to share this
project with anyone who (a) provides me with an FDHD disk (or an 800k
floppy if you can forego the music) and (b) lets me know what gets done
with the stack. Direct inquiries to Stuart Moulthrop, Department of
English, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520 or to SMOULTHR@YALEVM
(bitnet).
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 89 15:13:31 EST
From: Jeffrey Perry <JEFF@PUCC>
Subject: Transliterated Persian
The following is in response to Fritz Heberlein's query about trans-
literation of Persian.
Please contact me at the e-mail address below; I know a professor of
Persian (a non-e-mail user, unfortunately) who may be able to help you.
I will put you in touch with him.
Jeff Perry
C.I.T./Princeton University
JEFF@PUCC.PRINCETON.EDU
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 89 22:47:21 EST
From: Roland Hutchinson <R.RDH@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.767 meeting; Greek, Hebrew in MS Word (115)
Might we not reiterate, as a matter of policy, that no apology is
needed here for contributions in languages other than English.
After all, most of us didn't get to be card-carrying humanists without
learning to read three or four European languages.
Roland Hutchinson
Department of Music
Montclair State College
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
INTERNET: r.rdh@macbeth.stanford.edu
BITNET: r.rdh%macbeth@stanford
(That's right. I teach in New Jersey and read email in California.
Isn't science wonderful?)
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 89 17:50:06 EST
From: Roland Hutchinson <R.RDH@Macbeth.Stanford.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.759 multimedia; Daedalus (83)
It may interest HUMANIST readers to know that Robert Winter's
Macintosh-based multimedia skills were also used to great effect at the
recent joint meeting of the American Musicological Society and the
Society for Music Theory in Austin, Texas.
He had the Mac on the podium while he was speaking, and used it to
call up excerpts from a commercial recording of the reconstructed
"Beethoven's Tenth" along with the digitized speech (taken from
broadcast interviews?) of the British scholar who had prepared the
reconstructed score from surviving sketches by Beethoven.
It was basically a hatchet-job on the credibility of the
aforementionsed scholar's pet project, and it was *very* effective.
The poor man (who was present, and invited to reply) was basically
hung out to dry with his own words.
Winter's commercial hypercard offering on the Ninth Symphony was on
exhibit, and was generally well-received as a serious teaching tool.
Roland Hutchinson
Department of Music
Montclair State College
Upper Montclair, NJ 07043
INTERNET: r.rdh@macbeth.stanford.edu
BITNET: r.rdh%macbeth@stanford