Early Editions Research Articles

Notes for Notes

Notes for Notes Gary R. Boye, Melissa E. Wertheimer, and Stephanie Sussmeier ________ The Special Collections Research Center of Appalachian State University in Boone, NC has acquired the collection of guitar scholar and publisher Matanya Ophee (1932–2017). Acquired through J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians, this is one of the largest collections of nineteenth-century printed guitar music in existence and will be kept intact as the Matanya Ophee Collection. Highlights include over five hundred first and early editions of major guitar composers including Fernando Sor, Mauro Giuliani, Matteo Carcassi, Ferdinando Carulli, and many others, as well as the only complete manuscript of the Dix Etudes by Giulio Regondi, discovered by Ophee in 1987. The collection also includes the personal scores and papers of Argentinian guitarist Doming Prat (1886–1944), as well as a large amount of rare music for the Russian 7-string guitar from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr. Gary R. Boye Appalachian State University ________ The Library of Congress has released a third collection of web archives administered by the Music Division. The Music Division’s web archives curator and collection lead is Melissa Wertheimer, Music Reference Specialist (MLA Archivist from 2017–2021). The newest collection is the Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.natlib/collnatlib.00000144). Crawls began in November 2019 and are ongoing. The Professional Organizations for Performing Arts Web Archive contains websites and select social media to document professional networks in the performing arts over time. The collection items are those of professional, labor, and advocacy organizations at regional, national, and international levels. The websites in this collection represent the range of fields within the performing arts, including performance, publishing, scholarship, technology, education, advocacy, and labor organizing. The breadth of this web archive is an opportunity for users to discover the interrelated nature of professional performing arts organizations and also invites research and appreciation of other disciplines, such as education, technology, journalism, and labor. The LC Commissioned Composers Web Archive (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.natlib/collnatlib.00000120) was released in 2019. Crawls began in 2018 and are ongoing. The LC Commissioned Composers Web Archive [End Page 380] contains websites of composers who have been commissioned by Music Division funds. This web archive is not only a resource in itself, but also an information pathway to the Music Division’s unique collection materials and a digital record of the Music Division’s role as an active commissioning body in the new music community. The LC Commissioned Composers Web Archive includes the professional websites of living and deceased composers, as well as websites of foundations, institutes, museums, and awards established in memory of deceased composers. Archived websites include content that documents composers’ careers over time, including biographical information, photos, musical recordings, videos, writings, concert calendars, reviews, social media, upcoming projects, and works lists. The Performing Arts Web Archive (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.natlib/collnatlib.00000048) began crawls in 2011 and is an ongoing collection. The Performing Arts Web Archive contains web-based content related to the Music Division’s current special collections and rare material holdings. The goal of this web archive collection is to reflect, enhance, and contextualize the division’s unique holdings with websites that have direct personal, institutional, or subject relationships to them. Wertheimer took over the curation of this collection and revised its scope in 2018. Wertheimer’s online research guide Performing Arts Web Archives at the Library of Congress is forthcoming at https://guides.loc.gov/. Melissa E. Wertheimer Music Division, Library of Congress ________ The Talbott Music Library of Westminster Choir College of Rider University has digitized the Julia A. Perry Collection (https://cdm15457.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/p16471coll12/search). To date, the Julia A. Perry Collection is Talbott Music Library’s most requested Special Collection, with inquires received from all over the world. A Westminster Choir College Alumna (BM 1947, MM 1948), Julia A. Perry was a prolific composer, and her life and works continue to be studied to this day, providing a glimpse into the work of a mid-20th century Black woman composer. Her works received significant attention in the 1950s and...

Jonathan Swift’s Word-Book: A Vocabulary Compiled for Esther Johnson and Copied in Her Own Hand. Ed. A. C. Elias Jr., John Irwin Fischer, and Panthia Reid.

<i>Jonathan Swift’s Word-Book: A Vocabulary Compiled for Esther Johnson and Copied in Her Own Hand</i>. Ed. A. C. Elias Jr., John Irwin Fischer, and Panthia Reid.

Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

Anthologizing Poe: Editions, Translations, and (Trans)National Canons

Impact of ankyloglossia on the language development of children

Objective: Ankyloglossia is a benign anomaly of the tongue which may cause functional limitation. Evidence regarding the impact ofankyloglossia on children’s language development is limited. We aimed to evaluate the language development of children born withankyloglossia.Patients and Methods: Children diagnosed with ankyloglossia were followed up prospectively. Demographic characteristics, degreeof ankyloglossia assessed by Hazelbaker score in infancy and its effects on breastfeeding were evaluated. Language development wastested by the Turkish version of the Test of Early Language Development-Third Edition and the Denver II Test at 3-5 years of age.Results: Out of 53 children diagnosed with ankyloglossia, 38 (71.7%) children had language development testing and were included intothe study. Significant ankyloglossia was detected in infancy in 10 of these children (26.3%). Median time of exclusively breastfeedingwas not different according to the severity of ankyloglossia. All children evaluated with Denver II Test were developmentally normalin all domains. Scores of Test of Early Language Development-Third Edition were not different between children with and withoutsignificant ankyloglossia.Conclusion: Long term language development of children with ankyloglossia was not adversely affected. Parents should beappropriately informed and efforts must be paid to prevent unnecessary surgical interventions concerning language delay.

Biographical Reconfigurations of Shakespeare’s Sonnets: John Benson, Charles Gildon, and the Catullan Epigram

ABSTRACT For certain scholars, it is Edmond Malone’s edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets and the modern editorial tradition that followed which forged a crucial link between the author’s life and work. This article refines that idea by focusing on John Benson’s ‘second edition’ of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, entitled Poems (1640), and its early editorial tradition. It argues that early editors and publishers of the Sonnets restricted, manipulated, and exploited its biographical potential. This engagement came to a head in the early eighteenth century when Charles Gildon became the first editor to articulate an explicit biographical approach to the Sonnets (albeit Benson’s version). Gildon considered the Benson sonnets to be mostly epigrams, which gave his biographical approach distinctive features, heretofore unrecognised, such as heightened miscellaneity and internal fragmentation, and associations with the ancient writer Catullus. This earlier version of the biographical approach, long eclipsed by that of Malone, still holds valuable insight for readers of the Sonnets today.

Notes on the Text of Diogo do Couto’s O Soldado Prático

Despite its fame among critics and historians of Portuguese literature, the revised second version of Diogo do Couto’s O Soldado Prático has presented significant challenges to scholars seeking to establish a definitive edition of the dialogue. While the most recent edition, that of García Martín (2009), is a welcome improvement over earlier editions by Brasil (1988), Lapa (1937), and Amaral (1790), there remain a handful of passages in which the text can be further improved by a closer study of the Spanish books that Couto used as sources for the dialogue’s many classical anecdotes. This article proposes a number of corrections and emendations to García Martín’s edition by comparing the readings of the most reliable manuscript, BNP 463, with four 16th-century books that Couto consulted as sources of ancient sayings for his own dialogue.

Whose tragedy is this? Translating Arden of Faversham

This article considers the translation process of Arden of Faversham and the method that I have employed to translate collaborative plays, which is based on Matthew Reynolds's concept of prismatic translation, followed by examples of relevant textual variations found in the three earlier editions of Arden of Faversham as well as in the modern editions. I argue that by preserving textual differences based on different resources, the translation highlights the history of the text. It opens up possibilities accorded by the play's material existence, considering different textual elements, such as the words of the title, playtext, characters, and authorship.

Media in a Time of Crisis: Newspaper Coverage of Covid-19 in East Asia

ABSTRACT How have newspapers covered Covid-19 in Asia? To answer this question, I studied East Asian English-language newspapers published between January and July 2020. First, I measured the level of news media attention on Covid-19 among all reports. Second, I analyzed the tone and content of 330 editorials. I divided the analysis into two time periods: the initial crisis breakout period, when the number of infections was rising or high, and the crisis abatement period, when new infections declined to manageable levels. Findings show that although newspapers were slow to begin addressing the pandemic, their early editorials carried an alarming tone, which continued even after new infections dropped to low levels. This surprising level of concern continued because the topics shifted from health concerns to more ideological goals. Chinese and Taiwanese editors politicized the pandemic, using it as a wedge issue to attack international adversaries. Meanwhile, Korean editors used the economic fallout of the pandemic to press the government for pro-business economic reforms. In contrast, editors in Hong Kong exhibited cautious neutrality, largely avoiding politicization of the pandemic. These patterns of editorial coverage reveal the partizan nature of the press in East Asia, as well as salient political and economic undercurrents.

Innovation to reduce medication‐related harm

Innovation to reduce medication‐related harm

Q&amp;A: Rating Costochondritis

Q&amp;A: Rating Costochondritis

Annotated Copies of Early Editions of Johnson's Dictionary: A Preliminary Account

Abstract Early responses to Johnson’s Dictionary of the English Language included manuscript annotations, sometimes very extensive, in copies of the dictionary. This article surveys twenty-one copies of eighteenth-century editions of the dictionary with critical or informative annotations, bearing on etymology or usage, adding new words or senses, or improving the supply and referencing of quotations. Some of these copies are extant in institutional or private collections, and others are unlocated. The annotators include Johnson himself; members of his circle including Edmund Burke, Samuel Dyer, Edmond Malone, Hester Piozzi, and George Steevens; and other readers including Leigh Hunt, Horne Tooke, Noah Webster, and John Wilkes.

News, Events, Publications, and Awards

News, Events, Publications, and Awards

D is for democracy?

As part of a larger study on documenta as a Haunted Exhibition, my article proposes a revision of the historiography produced by and about the recurring large-scale exhibition, founded 1955 in Kassel. By rehabilitating a selection of the modern abstract art that was ostracized in the ‘Third Reich’ as ‘Jewish-Bolshevist’ degeneration, the early documenta editions contributed to the construction of a binary historiographic fairy tale of ‘good’ (i.e. democratic) abstraction vs. ‘bad’ (i.e. totalitarian) realism, which has often been discussed with regard to US-American cultural politics of reeducation in Germany. Taking a closer look at the biographies of documenta’s founding fathers and the ‘Germanic’ genealogies of their historiographic practices, however, I seek to complicate this success story of documenta as an arbiter of democracy, whose makers were claiming a radical break with the Nazi past. Highlighting the show’s continuities with German nationalism before, during and after the Nationalist Socialist regime, both on an ideological and a personal level, I will argue that documenta not only served as a ‘weapon of the Cold War’, but also as a washing machine for German (art) history, including the biographies of its historians and curators, who thus managed to distract attention from their former Nazi associations by deploying abstraction as a detergent, whose capacity for political resignification allowed for its recuperation by different ideological regimes. The article traces the continuous attempts by a network of nationalist documenta co-founders to brand abstraction as something specifically German before, during and after the NS and discusses how this part of modern art’s history in Germany was largely overwritten by the general perception of an ‘Americanization' of abstraction after World War II.

Tracing Beethoven in Zagreb

Beethoven’s Zagreb and Croatian acquaintances included his aristocratic friends, the two countesses, Ana Barbara Keglevich and Anne Marie Erdődy née Niczky, whom he intented to visit in 1817 in her castle near Zagreb. His other friends, Nanette and J. A. Streicher, were ancestors of today’s Zagreb musicians, and general Greth, husband of Jeannette d’Honrath, played on a private concert there in 1819. Beethoven’s music was performed on the first concert of the Musikverein in Zagreb (today Croatian Music Institute, CMI) in 1827. A representative of the Musikverein was present at the Vienna centenary celebrations of his birth in 1870; interesting material about that is kept in the CMI, together with some early and first editions of Beethoven’s works. The local premiere of the Ninth Symphony took place in 1900, with more than 200 performers. Other notable performances of the work include that conducted by Lorin Maazel (1987), and the project entitled Nine for the Ninth Centenary (1994), which united young musicians in the wartime. Tracing Beethoven in Zagreb also concerns his name, which was written on the walls of the CMI building in 1876, and his impressive bust made in 1939 by Vanja Radauš, kept today in a clinic for otorhinolaryngology.

Signs of the Times: Medieval Punctuation, Diplomatic Encoding and Rendition

Digitally managing punctuation in the editions of medieval manuscripts is one of those issues that initially looks like a minor detail, but later reveals itself as a tangled web of problems spanning from computer science (how to represent punctuation signs?) to philology (what types of signs exist?) through epistemology (is the processing of punctuation a mere technical transformation or a valuable part of the scholarship?). The aim of this paper is to address the theoretical aspects of these questions and their practical implications, providing a couple of solutions fitting the paradigms and the technologies of the TEI. This paper describes how we dealt with the encoding and transformation of the punctuation in the Early New High German edition of Marco Polo’s travel account. Technically, we implemented a set of general rules (as XSLT templates) plus various exceptions (as descriptive instructions in XML attributes), and applied them in an automated fashion (using XProc pipelines). In addition to this, we discuss the philological foundation of this method and, contextually, we address the topic of the transformation of a single original source into different transcriptions: from a highly diplomatic edition to an interpretative one, going through a spectrum of intermediate levels of normalization. We also reflect on the separation between transcription and analysis, as well as on the role of the editor when the edition is the output of a semi-automated process.

Seismic fragility of concrete bridges designed to current and older Aashto specifications

Bridges are essential components of transportation systems and their unacceptable performance following a disaster may lead to disruption to relief operations. Many existing bridges all around the world were designed based on early editions of seismic codes and the performance of some old bridges following seismic events has revealed that they are seismically vulnerable. This paper provides a comparison of the seismic performance of reinforced concrete (RC) bridges designed according to recent code editions and according to earlier provisions. To this end, a probabilistic seismic safety assessment of RC bridges was conducted. Non-linear response history analyses were performed for each set of bridge samples subjected to earthquake ground motions with different severities employing three-dimensional models. The effect of the earthquake focal mechanism on the seismic vulnerability of the bridges was investigated. Moreover, fragility curves were developed for RC bridges designed according to the latest edition of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (Aashto) specifications (so-called new bridges) and those designed based on pre-1980 specifications (so-called old bridges). The fragility curves are presented in terms of the geometrical specifications of the bridges and the focal mechanism associated with input motions for both new and old bridges.

A Companion to the History of the Book

A Companion to the History of the Book

Reading at the Threshold: The Role of Illustrations in the Reception of the Early Editions of &lt;i&gt;Celestina&lt;/i&gt;

Ya sea en su formato original de Comedia en dieciséis actos publicada por primera vez alrededor de 1499, o en su posterior encarnación en la Tragicomedia de 1501, las numerosas ediciones y traducciones que circularon durante el siglo XVI ponen de manifiesto la enorme popularidad y el profundo impacto literario de Celestina a lo largo de Europa. Se han escrito estudios incontables sobre la recepción de Celestina desde el siglo XV hasta el momento presente. Sin embargo, no se ha dicho mucho sobre la influencia de los grabados de la primera edición conocida en el éxito de la obra: ¿Cómo los interpretaron los lectores? ¿Fueron las ilustraciones tomadas en cuenta por los editores e ilustradores de las ediciones sucesivas? Este artículo explorará la importancia de los grabados en la difusión y el éxito editorial de la obra de Rojas, así como en la creación y divulgación de la saga inmortal de Celestina, reencarnada de modo incesante gracias a la imprenta.

Performance and Prelection in the Early Printed Editions of &lt;i&gt;Celestina&lt;/i&gt;

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Early Edition: The &lt;em&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/em&gt;, British Newspapers, and the Moving Image, 1896–1922

Early Edition: The &lt;em&gt;Daily Mail&lt;/em&gt;, British Newspapers, and the Moving Image, 1896–1922