Scriptularia

Stephen Heller

nobody@vox.com(Daniel) — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 15:28:00 -0500

Stephen Heller (1813-1888) is, it seems, but little known today, having been largely forgotten by even the time of his own death, nearly a hundred and twenty years ago. He was fairly prolific, however, and, at least for his time, was rather influe...

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Bibliotecaphilia

nobody@vox.com(Daniel) — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 16:54:00 -0500

Lento en mi sombra, la penumbra hueca exploro con el báculo indeciso, yo, que me figuraba el Paraíso bajo la especie de una biblioteca. —Jorge Luis Borges, "Poema de los dones" Paradise

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"Now, put my -what- on the string?"

nobody@vox.com(Daniel) — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 14:04:00 -0500

Though I've played guitar, and a few other strings, a number of years, I must admit this is an entirely new (to me) method of fretting! (Alexander Vynograd's arrangement for an eight string guitar of Bach's BWV639 [the 1713 chorale Ich ruf' zu ...

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Vox Hunt: By My Favorite Artist

nobody@vox.com(Daniel) — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 23:09:23 -0600

Show us something by your favorite artist. Submitted by Miss Parker. Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824-1904) was, in my opinion, a brilliant painter, and a rather good sculptor, of the orientalist style. While I don't know that I can be said to have a sing...

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Adventures in Unicode

nobody@vox.com(Daniel) — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 15:22:03 -0600

Earlier today I happened to notice the Unicode I used in my last post when quoting the book of Job in Hebrew displays improperly in some contexts. Namely, I was checking in via laptop, which is running XP, when I noticed the combining characters f...

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רחין

nobody@vox.com(Daniel) — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 13:39:06 -0600

I've been considering, depending on how Vox's hosting policies evolve, possibly migrating my music blog here. I would like a little more control over editing individual html elements in my entries, but I suppose it's a concession I can live with....

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A little piano

nobody@vox.com(Daniel) — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:55:16 -0600

Feverish and frustrated last night, coming from the flu into bronchitis on top of myriad other issues and irritations from things going wrong or badly with friends and family, I turned, as I sometimes do, to a bit of "key banging" as an outlet fo...

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Ευτερπη

nobody@vox.com(Daniel) — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 01:13:36 -0500

Wrote a new piece for a friend. Piano quartet, with a primary theme in A maj, and a midsection modulation into F#m, with some experimentation with intentional dissonance near the end of the latter before remodulating back to A maj. Thought I'd try...

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First post; and Greasemonkey

nobody@vox.com(Daniel) — Sun, 08 Oct 2006 21:17:00 -0500

My first effort at blogging here, so I thought I'd offer a small utility of sorts. While making a first effort at putting a profile up, I noticed that it currently replaces any HTML element tags with their HTML mark-up equivalents rather than disp...

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QotD: Strike up the Band

nobody@vox.com(Daniel) — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 15:50:26 -0500

Do you play any musical instruments? Several, to varying degrees of competence. Bass guitar, fingerstyle acoustic guitar, psaltery, banjo, mandolin, violin, piano/keyboards, recorder, random and varied other things. Also create my own instruments ...

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