3.1298 Replies: Serendipity; Massora Goluda; Music Copying (82)
Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Wed, 18 Apr 90 17:00:38 EDT
Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 3, No. 1298. Wednesday, 18 Apr 1990.
(1) Date: Tue, 10 Apr 90 10:14:00 EDT (31 lines)
From: P.Burnhill@edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 3.1272 serendipity, cont.
(2) Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 13:57:01 EDT (10 lines)
From: Daniel Boyarin <BOYARIN@TAUNIVM>
Subject: Re: 3.1234 queries
(3) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 90 23:57:38 PST (19 lines)
From: "Garrett H. Bowles" <ghb%sdcarl@UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.1283 a garden of queries
(4) Date: Mon, 16 Apr 90 08:17:32 PDT (22 lines)
From: "LC Special Materials" <BM.APX@RLG>
Subject: Re: 3.1283 a garden of queries [eds.]
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Date: Tue, 10 Apr 90 10:14:00 EDT
From: P.Burnhill@edinburgh.ac.uk
Subject: Re: 3.1272 serendipity, cont. (76)
Don Spaeth puts up a stoud defence for funding such fundemental research
as plate spinning. Although I am not qualified in that particular field,
I recall student days in the field of penny spinning. This I should
add, has not yet led me to a Nobel prize. However, historians of
science may care to note the apparatus included a wire coat-hanger
bent into a rhombus and dangled from forefinger with the hook at the
bottom. Pennies are then stacked onto the upturned hook of the
coathanger; and the whole thing is swung about the finger with
grace, elegance and skill in judging central-fugal force. Usually
we started with one penny, and then progressed on up to four, five or six.
Historians of science may also note that the ear of George VI was
apparently especially bred for this purpose as this was invariably
the firm foundation of a winning 'fiver', as it was known technically.
The major instructional use for this experiment was that the more pennies,
the more skill was needed in getting out the way of the pennies when
they eventually came off. My flatmate had brought the concept from
Keble College, Oxford so maybe Lou should do some literature search; the
equipment was engineered in West London.
I think waht Don was getting at was the role of imagination in science
and scholarship; the confidence to conceive of entities, relations and forces
beyond existing theory.
Or maybe plate spinning is how Stanford interpret Blue Skies research!
:-))
Peter
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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 90 13:57:01 EDT
From: Daniel Boyarin <BOYARIN@TAUNIVM>
Subject: Re: 3.1234 queries (95)
the massora gedola is a kind of v ery early hebrew concordance of the
bible. it list all the occurences of particular forms in the hebrew
and dates back to the eight or so century.
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 90 23:57:38 PST
From: "Garrett H. Bowles" <ghb%sdcarl@UCSD.EDU>
Subject: Re: 3.1283 a garden of queries
In reply to a question originally posted on HUMANIST. --Ralph Papakhian
The best IBM-PC program which integrates both music and text is SCORE
distributed by Passport Designs. It also produces PostScript output.
It costs about $800, but compared with other programs is well worth the
price. See my review in NOTES, the journal of the Music Library Association,
which should be available in your music library. My review is in the
March issue and surveys 7 IBM-PC program. I also discuss the way each
handels text.
Garrett Bowles
gbowles@ucsd.edu
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Date: Mon, 16 Apr 90 08:17:32 PDT
From: "LC Special Materials" <BM.APX@RLG>
Subject: Re: 3.1283 a garden of queries [eds.]
This note was in reply to a question orginally posted on HUMANIST.--Ralph
Papakhian.
Ric Gudgeon:
You may wish to check the latest issue of MLA Notes (March 1990, I
guess) for Garrett Bowle's exaustive review of music copying
programs. Although they all range in price from about $400 up, one
of them, The Copyist, comes in what they refer to as an apprentice
version--called The Copyist I. It went for $99.00 when I bought it
a few years ago, so it may be more now, especially as it is no
longer copy-protected. The main difference, particularly for your
purposes, between the cheaper and more expensive versions is that
that former can only handle five pages per file. Each page can be
up to fourteen inches, resulting in about fifteen or sixteen staves.
It does text almost like a word processor and prints via dot-matrix
(IBM) or HP laser jet. You may wish to give them a call for their
blurbs, etc.
- David Sommerfield