George Grove:Groves Dictionary of Music and Musicians Volume 1
- Livro de bolso 2000, ISBN: 9781236031976
Storck Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 256 pages. Dimensions: 8.5in. x 5.5in. x 0.6in.PREFACE THE author hopes that this book will help to fill a small gap in the literature of survey… mais…
Storck Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 256 pages. Dimensions: 8.5in. x 5.5in. x 0.6in.PREFACE THE author hopes that this book will help to fill a small gap in the literature of surveying. There is, unless he is mistaken, no general treatise on tacheometry in which both the practical side of the subject and methods of measurement other than the stadia method are given adequate treatment. The main object of the book is to encourage young surveyors, particularly those in undeveloped countries, to take a greater interest in tacheometry, and especially in that branch of it known as stadia measurement. Surveyors on the whole are inclined to fight shy of ordinary tacheometry. This is largely due to the fact that in text- books on surveying the treatment of the subject is not as practical as it might be. To take one example almost every text-book mentions only one method of reading the staff, namely that in which all three hairs are read to two decimal places in order to provide a check on the accuracy of the readings. This, by itself, is responsible for discouraging many a beginner. To the surveyor who cannot afford an assistant to book his readings for him this conventional method of reading the staff is too tedious for words. In this book special attention has been given to the practical side of the subject. In Chapter VI, on Field Work, every effort has been made to instruct the beginner in the art of conducting operations in the field. The methods there recommended are based on long and varied experiences the author has both practised and taught tacheometry for a great many years. With regard to Chapter XI on Special Instruments, the author is aware that it is impossible, in the few pages allotted to the subject, to do it justice. His intention has been merely to give the reader some idea of what has been attempted or achieved in this particular field. There are one or two minor controversial points to which the author may, perhaps, be allowed to refer briefly. The first is the use of the words tacheometer and anallactic instead of tachymeter and anallatic. Although he is in sympathy with those who would like to see the older and more correct form tachymeter reinstated, he is convinced that it is too late now to make the change. So far as British surveyors are concerned tacheometer and tacheonzetry have come to stay. As regards anallatic-a foreign word, to be found in many text-books but in none of the dictionaries-since it is clearly intended to be the antonym of parallactic the correct English spelling would appear to be anallactic. Secondly, it may be objected that horizontal-base subtense measurement is, strictly speaking, not a form of tacheometry. This may possibly be so but as vertical-base subtense is beyond doubt a branch of tacheometry and it is customary in text-books to include subtense measurement in the chapter on Tacheometry, there is, it would seem, ample justification for including it here. In fact, to exclude the subject from these pages would probably be the greater offence of the two. Lastly, the authors insistence on the need for flexibility in stadia observations may be regarded as an obsession but he is sure that any surveyor who has learnt his tacheometry in a hard school will agree with him on this point. The author wishes to express his warm sense of gratitude to all those who have so kindly helped him to produce this work. To his staunch friend and former assistant Mr. Y. L. Pao, B. Sc. , he is indebted more than he can say. Mr. Pao not only took a keen and practical interest in the preparation of this book, but after Hong Kong fell in December 1941, he managed with the aid of his colleague, Mr. N. P. Koh, M. Sc. . . This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN., Storck Press, -Cambridge University Press, 2000-. First edition. x+318 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. This study examines the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing in particular on the relationship between England and one of its 'celtic colonies', Scotland, Janet Sorensen explores the tensions which arose during a period when the formation of a national standard English coincided with the need to negotiate ever widening imperial linguistic contacts. Close readings of poems, novels, dictionaries, grammars and records of colonial English instruction reveal the deeply conflicting relationship between British national and imperial ideologies. Moving from Scots Gaelic poet Alexander MacDonald to writers such as Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Tobias Smollett, Sorensen analyses British linguistic practices of imperial domination, including the enforcement of English language usage. The book also engages with the work of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to offer a wider understanding of the ambivalent nature of English linguistic identity., -Cambridge University Press, 2000-, -Cambridge University Press, 2000-. First edition. x+318 pages with index. Cloth. Fine in dustjacket. This study examines the complex role of language as an instrument of empire in eighteenth-century British literature. Focusing in particular on the relationship between England and one of its 'celtic colonies', Scotland, Janet Sorensen explores the tensions which arose during a period when the formation of a national standard English coincided with the need to negotiate ever widening imperial linguistic contacts. Close readings of poems, novels, dictionaries, grammars and records of colonial English instruction reveal the deeply conflicting relationship between British national and imperial ideologies. Moving from Scots Gaelic poet Alexander MacDonald to writers such as Adam Smith, Hugh Blair, and Tobias Smollett, Sorensen analyses British linguistic practices of imperial domination, including the enforcement of English language usage. The book also engages with the work of Samuel Johnson and Jane Austen to offer a wider understanding of the ambivalent nature of English linguistic identity., -Cambridge University Press, 2000-, RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 690 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 1.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1904 Excerpt: . . . in Latin, like all such works at that time. Brossards book being in French brought musical subjects within the range of the general reading public, and thus rendered an important service to art. It is not without faults, but contains an enormous amount of information to have been amassed by one man. It was translated into English by Grassineau in 1740. Brossard also wrote Lettre a M. Demotz sur so nouvelle mfOiade dtcrire le plain-chant el la musigue (Ballard, 1729). As a composer of church music he made his mark. He gave his valuable library to Louis XIV. in consideration of an annuity of 1200 francs. His MSS. and notes for a universal history of music are preserved in the national library in Paris. F. o. BROWN, James Duff, born at Edinburgh, Nov. 6, 1862, was an assistant librarian in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow, from 1878 to 1888, when he became librarian to the Clerkenwell Public Library. His claim to notice rests on his Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (Paisley, 1886), a book of considerable value as far as facts are concerned; his Guide to the Formation of a Music Library (1893) is of greater value, and his best work is British Musical Biography (with Stephen S. Stratton, 1897). M. BROWNSMITH, John Leman, was born in Westminster in 1809, and received his musical education as a chorister of Westminster Abbey under George Ebenezer Williams and Thomas Greatorex. On quitting the choir he pursued the study of the organ, and in a short time became not only an excellent player but acquired so perfect a knowledge of the structure of the instrument as to be able to build a small chamber-organ for himself. In 1829, on the death of Benjamin Jacob, Brownsmith was appointed his successor as organist of St. Johns Church, Waterloo Road. In March 1838 he was. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<
