4.0520 Queries (8/187)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 25 Sep 90 22:24:18 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0520. Tuesday, 25 Sep 1990.


(1) Date: Thu, 20 Sep 90 19:08 PDT (16 lines)
From: "Vicky A. Walsh" <IMD7VAW@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: question for humanist readers

(2) Date: Fri, 21 Sep 90 17:04:43 +0100 (14 lines)
From: Ian Mitchell Lambert <iwml@ukc.ac.uk>
Subject: BIBLICAL COMPUTER SYLLABI

(3) Date: Sat, 22 Sep 90 21:14:30 MET (54 lines)
From: Hans van der Laan <RCDILAA@HDETUD1.BITNET>
Subject: Josias Priest

(4) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 00:55 EDT (25 lines)
From: Michel LENOBLE <LENOBLEM@umtlvr.bitnet>
Subject: Virus - Frodo???

(5) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 10:10 EDT (33 lines)
From: Matthew Wall <WALL@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Question about HumaNet and its newsletters

(6) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 08:13:37 EDT (9 lines)
From: Judi Moline <moline@swe.ncsl.nist.gov>
Subject: Help re arts and humanities as different

(7) Date: 25 Sep 90 11:50 -0600 (23 lines)
From: Phyllis Wright <lbswright@brocku.ca>
Subject: IDENTITY OF AMERICAN NOVEL

(8) Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 12:51:47 EDT (13 lines)
From: Steve Mason <SHLOMO@YORKVM1>
Subject: Early Church Fathers

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Date: Thu, 20 Sep 90 19:08 PDT
From: "Vicky A. Walsh" <IMD7VAW@UCLAMVS.BITNET>
Subject: question for humanist readers

I would like to ask two questions of the collected wisdom of this group:

a) are any of you part of or know of a LAN for Humanists; that is, a
network set up for humanities departments only?

b) do you participate in a college/univeristy network that was
established for a wider group of users?

please send replies directly to me, Vicky Walsh, at imd7vaw@uclamvs

I appreciate your help.
Vicky Walsh
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Date: Fri, 21 Sep 90 17:04:43 +0100
From: Ian Mitchell Lambert <iwml@ukc.ac.uk>
Subject: BIBLICAL COMPUTER SYLLABI

We have some interest in developing a biblical computing course and I
have been asked to obtain information of such programmes.

Does anyone know of such courses, and contact people/email addresses,
please?

Ian Mitchell Lambert

University of Kent at Canterbury
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
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Date: Sat, 22 Sep 90 21:14:30 MET
From: Hans van der Laan <RCDILAA@HDETUD1.BITNET>
Subject: Josias Priest

For some time I have been studying the origins of, and the circumstances
around, Purcell's opera "Dido and Aeneas". Much has been written on
Purcell and on Dido and Aeneas, but I don't succeed in tracing Priest.

As you know, Dido and Aeneas was first performed in 1689, at a boarding
school for Young Gentlewomen.

The libretto (one copy survived) describes the work as:

A N O P E R A

Perform'd at
Mr. JOSIAS PRIEST's Boarding School at
CHELSEY.
By YOUNG GENTLEWOMEN.
The Words Made by Mr. NAT. TATE.
The Musick Composed by Mr. Henry Purcell.

Josias Priest lived from 1655 to 1737.
"He was a choreographer at the Theatre Royal and --since the sixties--
an important dancer in the London playhouses" (Curtis Price: _Henry
Purcell and the London Stage_).

It might be that Purcell and Priest worked together earlier.

Sir John Hawkins writes in his _General History of the Science and
Practice of Music_ :

"One Josias Priest, a celebrated dancing-master and a
composer of stage dances, kept a boarding school for
young gentlewomen in Leicester Fields. The nature of
his profession inclining him to dramatic
representation, he got Tate to write, and Purcell to
set to music, a little drama, called 'Dido and
Aeneas'."

More opera's might have been performed by the girls at Priest's school,
but I can not say how many times. Blow's "Venus and Adonis" has been
adapted for such an occasion.

Maybe my search for Priest goes in the wrong directions, biased as I am
on music and early opera. Can anyone show me the way to other sources?

Hans

Hans van der Laan Bitnet: RCDILAA@HDETUD1
Advisor S-mail: P.O. Box 354
Delft University of Technology NL-2600-AJ Delft
Computing Centre The Netherlands
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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 00:55 EDT
From: Michel LENOBLE <LENOBLEM@umtlvr.bitnet>
Subject: Virus - Frodo???

I would be glad to hear from any humanist having had the visit of the
Frodo virus. It was due to appear on 22 september.

One of its effects was the message "Frodo is alive" inspired by
Tolkien's Lord of the rings.

Has anyone living in the New York area any reference on an Association
of industry against viruses. (The translation of the
name of this association is approximate).

Michel Lenoble
Litterature Comparee
Universite de Montreal
C.P. 6128, Succ. "A"
MONTREAL (Quebec)
Canada - H3C 3J7
E-MAIL: lenoblem@cc.umontreal.ca

P.S. Anonymity is guaranteed to those having caught the virus (or having
been caught).
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Date: Mon, 24 Sep 90 10:10 EDT
From: Matthew Wall <WALL@campus.swarthmore.edu>
Subject: Question about HumaNet and its newsletters

I have a classicist who was attracted to the HumaNet bulletin board by an
article in one of his professional journals, and in particular to the CLA
Classics Newsletter apparently distributed through this b-board. We
were both somewhat put off by the high connect costs advertised,
however. Are there any classicists out there with experience with
HumaNet who have opinions/info about

(1) is HumaNet worth the cost?

(2) if so, are there local-access phone numbers for the Philadelphia
area, or is there Telnet access (this was not clear in the literature my
faculty person had) ?

(3) is there any sort of redistribution of the CLA newsletter in some
free-of-cost or trial method over the internet?

General comments about HumaNet would be welcomed as well; I apologize if
I've missed a previous discussion about this on Humanist.

Thanks...

- Matt

Matthew Wall
Humanities Computing Coordinator
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA 19081
wall@campus.swarthmore.edu
wall@swarthmr
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Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 08:13:37 EDT
From: Judi Moline <moline@swe.ncsl.nist.gov>
Subject: Help re arts and humanities as different

I'm looking for references to studies/theories that document how
research in the arts and humanities is done and perhaps touch on
knowledge representations used in arts and humanities in general and art
history in particular. Please respond to me directly at
jmoline@nist.gov. Happiness! Judi Moline
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Date: 25 Sep 90 11:50 -0600
From: Phyllis Wright <lbswright@brocku.ca>
Subject: Identity of American Novel

I wonder if anyone can help identify a novel written about 20 or so years
ago. The only info I have follows:

Setting: Guatemala
Topic: Landowners/poverty/family life/rural life
Language: English/fiction
Author: American (maybe South American, but it is not M.A. Asturias)

Place: Published in the USA

this may be a shot in the dark - but i've exhausted all possible
sources.

thanks

phyllis wright
brock university
st. catharines, ontriario
lbwswright@brocku.ca
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date: tue, 25 sep 90 12:51:47 edt
from: steve mason <shlomo@yorkvm1>
subject: early church fathers

i have the fear of someone who just woke up in class and asks a question
about something that was thoroughly discussed during his nap. i'm sure
that it's been discussed, but can someone please direct me to an mrt of
the "ante-nicene" fathers? (parents?)

thanks,

steve mason
humanities, york u.