The Royal Academies of 1695

Tilmouth, Michael

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“…In 1695, there was an attempt to found some Royal Academies to provide instruction in the arts and sciences. Abraham De Moivre was one of the proposed instructors in mathematics and Daniel an instructor of the flute or recorder (Tilmouth, 1957). Between 1701 and 1715, Daniel composed and published three collections of music for the recorder (Stratford, 1987).…”

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Maty’s Biography of Abraham De Moivre, Translated, Annotated and Augmented

Bellhouse¹,

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2007

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November 27, 2004, marked the 250th anniversary of the death of Abraham De Moivre, best known in statistical circles for his famous large-sample approximation to the binomial distribution, whose generalization is now referred to as the Central Limit Theorem. De Moivre was one of the great pioneers of classical probability theory. He also made seminal contributions in analytic geometry, complex analysis and the theory of annuities. The first biography of De Moivre, on which almost all subsequent ones have since relied, was written in French by Matthew Maty. It was published in 1755 in the Journal britannique. The authors provide here, for the first time, a complete translation into English of Maty's biography of De Moivre. New material, much of it taken from modern sources, is given in footnotes, along with numerous annotations designed to provide additional clarity to Maty's biography for contemporary readers.

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Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

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2020

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Performing Piety[E]very morning and evening at six of the clock, which are the days for learning of scholars, and keeping of school, the scholars by two and two and the schoolmaster shall go from the school-house into the Parish Church, and there devoutly upon their knees before they do enter the choir say some devout prayer, and after the same they shall repair together unto the chapel or choir . . . and there sing together one of these psalms hereafter instituted, such as the schoolmaster shall appoint. 1 This passage from the statutes at Kirkby Stephen Grammar School reveals the theatrical quality of student devotion. Twice daily students paused in their regular instruction to engage in a performative activity that combined patterned movement (going from the schoolhouse "two by two" into the parish church), oration (the saying of prayers), and music-making (the singing of psalms). In so doing, they envoiced and embodied their Protestantism, moving, in this case physically, from the schoolroom to the church. This chapter maps how students moved, sometimes literally and sometimes figuratively, between church and schoolroom, and the purposes religious music-making served in these contexts.

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Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

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The Royal Academies of 1695

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Maty’s Biography of Abraham De Moivre, Translated, Annotated and Augmented

Maty’s Biography of Abraham De Moivre, Translated, Annotated and Augmented

Music, Dance, and Drama in Early Modern English Schools

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