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« on: 19:57:30, 01-08-2008 » |
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T-p, to be fair, I am already well aware of all that, as is any academic.
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Ian Pace
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« Reply #1 on: 21:51:17, 01-08-2008 » |
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Blackboards - they take me back.....
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'These acts of keeping politics out of music, however, do not prevent musicology from being a political act . . .they assure that every apolitical act assumes a greater political immediacy' - Philip Bohlman, 'Musicology as a Political Act'
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #2 on: 22:12:01, 01-08-2008 » |
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Do skools (to follow Molesworthian usage) still use blackboards? The horrible sound and squeak of chalk on black board - it still makes my finger nails shudder.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh: a time to mourn, and a time to dance
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« Reply #3 on: 22:18:30, 01-08-2008 » |
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Do skools (to follow Molesworthian usage) still use blackboards? The horrible sound and squeak of chalk on black board - it still makes my finger nails shudder.
I quail with the concept of confronting reality, sa Molesworth, it it so sordid, but the thort of finger nails shuddering is somwhat bazaar as normally teef on edge are invoked in the circumstancis |
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Reality, sa molesworth 2, is so sordid it makes me shudder
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perfect wagnerite
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« Reply #4 on: 22:24:01, 01-08-2008 » |
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Do skools (to follow Molesworthian usage) still use blackboards? The horrible sound and squeak of chalk on black board - it still makes my finger nails shudder.
Not at all, Don B. Blackboards are among those aspects of my time at school in the 1960s and 1970s that my daughter appears half-convinced I am making up (along with being addressed by my surname, compulsory daily chapel, the CCF, sarcastic tweed-clad and gowned teachers throwing things at inattentive pupils). |
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At every one of these [classical] concerts in England you will find rows of weary people who are there, not because they really like classical music, but because they think they ought to like it. (Shaw, Don Juan in Hell)
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« Reply #5 on: 22:27:17, 01-08-2008 » |
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Do skools (to follow Molesworthian usage) still use blackboards? The horrible sound and squeak of chalk on black board - it still makes my finger nails shudder.
It's whiteboards and Powerpoint all the way these days! |
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« Reply #6 on: 22:28:14, 01-08-2008 » |
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Do skools (to follow Molesworthian usage) still use blackboards? The horrible sound and squeak of chalk on black board - it still makes my finger nails shudder.
My blackboard was replaced by a whiteboard within three or four years of the start of my career. They were terribly dusty, but writing on a whiteboard was trickier to do neatly. Last summer, these were replaced by interactive whiteboards, which are fabulous!  |
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Our chief weapon is surprise...surprise and fear...fear and surprise.... Our two weapons are fear and surprise...and ruthless efficiency
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« Reply #7 on: 22:29:52, 01-08-2008 » |
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I used to have an asthmatic reaction to the board pens.
Fortunately I've grown out of it and/or they've changed the formula.
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #8 on: 22:35:22, 01-08-2008 » |
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Regrettably the Butterfield Chapel at my school was not big enough to seat the entire school, and once the new building was built in the late seventies we had assembly for the entire school in the hall there, which was basically nonconformist worship, and not liturgical Anglicanism at all.
CCF. I can remember polish my boots until they shone. Also going up in a Chipmunk from Exeter Airport. (I joined the RAF CCF as I preferred the uniform.)
Pity about gowns for masters (or indeed mistresses) going out of usage, which happened during my period at school. I think there are not enough opportunities for dressing up as it is.
Nobody addressed me by my first name until I was in the sixth form. That is not so healthy. I was desperately unhappy during my childhood.
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To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.
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« Reply #9 on: 23:05:09, 01-08-2008 » |
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Last summer, these were replaced by interactive whiteboards, which are fabulous! Until the server's down or the bulb goes "pop!"... (My bulb popped prematurely so we had it replaced free of charge but they are SO expensive to replace.) I still use my non-interactive whiteboard a lot, though the cleaner used the wrong cleaning stuff on it - it's gone lovely and white but the pens won't work properly on it - they seem to dry up on contact.  I suppose whiteboard problems don't really warrant mention on this thread but if your entire lesson is planned around an interactive whiteboard and it's not working that's pretty challenging and upsetting at the time! |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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« Reply #10 on: 23:09:54, 01-08-2008 » |
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Nobody addressed me by my first name until I was in the sixth form. That is not so healthy. I was desperately unhappy during my childhood.
My teachers all mispronounced my (first) name. I was very angry during (some of) my childhood. |
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Andy D
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« Reply #11 on: 00:45:10, 02-08-2008 » |
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Nobody addressed me by my first name until I was in the sixth form. That is not so healthy. I was desperately unhappy during my childhood.
You were lucky DonB! Even in the 6th form it was still all surnames for me. I really can't remember ever being called by my first name at school - certainly not by teachers, but not by classmates either. Even after we'd left school, I can remember occasionally being called by my surname by people I'd been at school with. I've always had difficulties as to which version of my first name to use as well - Andy or Andrew. I've referred to myself as "Andy" for a very long time but to quite a few members of my family, and a few others, I'm "Andrew" - it can be difficult to remember which version to use with some people. I've often thought that musicians and composers seem to stick with the more formal versions of their first names but I'm sure that there are some counter-examples. Mike Tippett? Benny Britten? |
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« Reply #12 on: 01:10:12, 02-08-2008 » |
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Nobody addressed me by my first name until I was in the sixth form. You were lucky DonB! Even in the 6th form it was still all surnames for me. I really can't remember ever being called by my first name at school - certainly not by teachers, but not by classmates either. And, without wanting to start a situation like a certain comedy sketch, there were some titles for me which were far less flattering than even my surname (this was fairly prevalent). It was a sort of lapsed public school (or tried to be), and teachers still wore gowns if they were leading an assembly, or for such events as "Founder's Day"  |
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« Reply #13 on: 01:26:24, 02-08-2008 » |
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There are a few others elsewhere (most obviously in Germany) whose help I can solicit; it's not always easy getting this help 'cold', if I don't already know them (in some cases I do, and they've been helpful), and when academics inevitably guard their own work rather jealously at times.
That can be a pain. That said, it's usually worth consulting with other experts on these sorts of things - conferences are maybe better places to do this sort of stuff than via email (with the proviso that you have to listen to other people's ideas as well usually  ). (This means that you've gotten the worst of the Brahms out of the way does it?) |
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Don Basilio
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« Reply #14 on: 10:54:24, 02-08-2008 » |
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I've often thought that musicians and composers seem to stick with the more formal versions of their first names but I'm sure that there are some counter-examples. Mike Tippett? Benny Britten? Those two gents have something else in common which often goes with the use of the full name. Only straights call Michael Tolliver "Mike" in Armistead Maupin's Tales of the City.O and though masters used my first name, my fellow pupils didn't. |
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