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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 5 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 45075 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 74 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5 piano 4 teacher 4 play 4 Chopin 4 Bach 3 work 3 study 3 illustration 3 Beethoven 2 hand 2 finger 2 Rubinstein 2 Mr. 2 America 1 tone 1 time 1 technic 1 singing 1 sidenote 1 pupil 1 playing 1 piece 1 music 1 interpretation 1 instrument 1 great 1 good 1 expression 1 Russia 1 Playing 1 Paderewski 1 New 1 MRS 1 London 1 Lizzie 1 Liszt 1 Leschetizky 1 Europe 1 Emma 1 DOMINIE 1 Bülow Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 977 piano 743 time 641 music 638 finger 633 teacher 577 hand 563 piece 537 pupil 532 work 460 playing 415 study 415 note 410 tone 373 student 350 year 347 touch 337 pianist 313 way 302 thing 285 composition 278 artist 277 key 252 day 244 instrument 241 technic 235 composer 231 sidenote 214 one 212 player 211 scale 210 art 200 exercise 197 part 192 method 188 concert 181 idea 179 child 176 voice 170 mind 167 pedal 162 point 162 master 161 arm 160 effect 157 course 156 passage 155 case 153 position 150 wrist 150 use Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 2050 _ 200 Chopin 149 America 144 Bach 127 Mr. 122 Beethoven 119 Liszt 105 DOMINIE 98 Rubinstein 72 Piano 72 Europe 61 Leschetizky 60 legato 52 MRS 50 Paderewski 49 New 45 London 44 Berlin 43 Schumann 43 Russia 43 Mendelssohn 41 Paris 41 Brahms 39 Bülow 38 York 38 S. 38 Dominie 37 pianoforte 37 Czerny 34 Sonata 32 Playing 32 Music 32 Miss 32 F 32 C 31 Mozart 30 Vienna 30 MR 29 Op 29 English 28 Bauer 27 Conservatory 26 | 26 staccato 26 Concerto 26 Clementi 24 c 24 Von 24 Pugno 24 Hand Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; "To whom are things referred?" ------------------------------------------------------------- 2785 i 2608 it 1624 you 1392 he 820 they 540 we 529 me 507 them 306 him 271 she 189 one 122 us 116 himself 96 itself 83 her 77 themselves 57 myself 48 yourself 16 herself 10 ourselves 6 mine 3 thee 2 theirs 2 ours 2 his 1 you,--mannered 1 there,--you 1 hers Top 50 lemmatized verbs; "What do things do?" --------------------------------------------- 8729 be 2582 have 1256 do 1247 play 723 make 454 give 451 say 375 find 369 take 323 come 313 know 306 use 295 go 287 learn 283 study 271 think 248 see 225 seem 210 hear 210 become 189 teach 171 produce 168 work 167 practise 161 begin 153 write 147 keep 143 feel 142 speak 140 try 140 call 137 get 136 bring 135 mean 131 acquire 128 follow 126 consider 122 require 118 tell 116 let 107 understand 107 listen 105 lead 103 show 103 develop 99 look 98 hold 97 ask 87 put 87 need Top 50 lemmatized adjectives and adverbs; "How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 1786 not 713 great 632 so 607 more 578 very 508 only 478 good 476 musical 445 well 420 first 411 many 401 much 378 other 373 most 331 then 292 little 292 as 290 even 283 always 272 never 271 same 265 technical 264 such 250 too 243 out 238 own 224 also 213 now 208 up 206 few 184 different 180 difficult 179 often 178 however 177 certain 176 new 176 just 167 high 165 right 165 long 159 here 156 possible 146 young 146 artistic 144 necessary 142 old 137 far 137 able 134 beautiful 131 once Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 175 good 100 great 75 least 64 most 40 high 13 Most 12 fine 9 bad 8 slight 7 eld 6 short 5 simple 5 low 5 late 5 early 5 close 4 young 4 sure 4 quick 4 easy 3 wide 3 soft 3 small 3 minute 3 long 3 keen 2 strong 2 sincere 2 noble 2 new 2 manif 2 loud 2 large 2 hard 2 full 2 deep 2 busy 1 thin 1 tall 1 stiff 1 speedy 1 sharp 1 safe 1 rare 1 poor 1 plain 1 old 1 nice 1 near 1 mere Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 309 most 24 well 9 least 1 oldest 1 greatest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4 www.gutenberg.net 2 www.gutenberg.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39211/39211-h/39211-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/39211/39211-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/0/2/28026/28026-h/28026-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/0/2/28026/28026-h.zip 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/6/0/15604/15604-h/15604-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/1/5/6/0/15604/15604-h.zip Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13 _ do not 4 student working alone 4 time is not 3 pupil is different 2 _ are _ 2 _ feel _ 2 _ is _ 2 artists do not 2 fingers are not 2 fingers are only 2 fingers seem weak 2 hand is first 2 hand is not 2 hands are cold 2 music is not 2 music is so 2 notes are played 2 one has ever 2 one is far 2 one is inclined 2 one is most 2 piano is capable 2 pieces are not 2 playing is not 2 playing is so 2 pupils have naturally 2 student does not 2 teacher is always 2 technic is only 1 _ are inappropriate 1 _ becomes nonsense 1 _ beginning _ 1 _ being great 1 _ do _ 1 _ do n''t 1 _ felt _ 1 _ has too 1 _ hear _ 1 _ is not 1 _ is only 1 _ play _ 1 _ play chords 1 _ seeing _ 1 _ speak _ 1 _ studied _ 1 _ study _ 1 _ studying counterpoint 1 _ think _ 1 _ thought _ 1 artist are duly Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 _ is no guarantee 1 artist gives no thought 1 composer was not significant 1 hand is not yet 1 key does not always 1 music is not emotional 1 note be not unnecessarily 1 note has no meaning 1 one is not very 1 pianist does not only 1 pianist is no more 1 pianists are no saints 1 piano has not more 1 piano is not so 1 pieces are not merely 1 pieces have no terrors 1 pieces is not necessary 1 playing does not really 1 playing is not only 1 pupil is not too 1 student does not always 1 student has no reason 1 student is not naturally 1 students are not willing 1 time is not far 1 time is not generally 1 time is not here 1 time is not yet 1 time was not only A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 15604 author = Brower, Harriette title = Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers date = keywords = America; Bach; Bülow; Chopin; Leschetizky; Mr.; Paderewski; finger; hand; piano; play; study; teacher; tone; work summary = "The most vital thing in piano playing is to learn to think. Suppose, for instance, you are studying the Chopin Étude Op. 10, No. 12, with the left hand arpeggio work. "If a pupil comes to me who has played a great deal but with no idea of no idea of chord or scale playing, you can not make the piece sound like deal of music but with little idea of correct principles of piano study. Some schools of piano playing advise lifting the fingers high Principles of Piano Playing; Relaxation Studies; The Child''s First Steps in Piano Playing; The Principles of Fingering and Laws of Pedaling; if they play the piece a sufficient number of times they will know it; lives and works, dividing his time between teaching and concert playing. pupils who have been playing difficult music for years, and who consider id = 28026 author = Cooke, James Francis title = Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression date = keywords = America; Bach; Beethoven; Chopin; Europe; Liszt; Rubinstein; Russia; expression; great; illustration; interpretation; piano; play; playing; pupil; study; teacher; technic; work summary = GREAT PIANISTS ON PIANO PLAYING Liszt is, of course, considered a great master for the piano, and I play technical exercises, and strive to play all the scales, in the different technic, but are really great works of musical art. 2. Should immediate musical results be sought in technical study? good teacher, he studied the individuality of each pupil and taught him that in music ''Art is long.'' The virtuoso comes to a great metropolis "The piano itself is of course a great help to the student in the study responsibilities of the teacher in the first years of music study. 3. Do great pianists devote much time to writing upon piano technic? great thing in all musical work. 3. What part should the study of phrasing play in modern music pupil to play all of the Czerny studies, any more than the student greatest possible means for saving time in music study. id = 29280 author = Glover, Ellye Howell title = How the Piano Came to Be date = keywords = Bach; London; New; illustration; instrument; piano summary = the concert-grand piano of the present day is a far flight. stringed instrument which reached its culmination in the piano. the stringed instrument is of very ancient date. He set to work to make a musical instrument, using the shell the Hebrews that these people had stringed musical instruments at a Just how many strings Hermes had on his tortoise-shell instrument is a The virginal, spinet, and harpsichord followed the clavichord The instrument which belonged, once upon a time, to Mary Queen of Scots that the instrument must have been almost as commonly used as the piano [Illustration: Christofori Piano from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his manuscripts he mentions an instrument called _piano e forte_. at the clavichord, not while at the piano or harpsichord." whole community, stating that the coming of the new musical instrument Ten or twelve pianos were all he could make in one year and, to id = 39211 author = Hofmann, Josef title = Piano Playing, with Piano Questions Answered date = keywords = Bach; Beethoven; Chopin; Playing; Rubinstein; finger; good; hand; illustration; music; piano; piece; play; sidenote; study; teacher; work summary = Play the piece a number of times very exactly with the music piano--after several hours, remember--try to play the piece. _With Regard to Technical Work_: Play good compositions and construe out in your memory and in good technical condition, play them a few times playing single notes with one finger of each hand. [Sidenote: _Don''t Stiffen the Hands in Playing Scales_] [Sidenote: _Organ-Playing and the Piano Touch_] [Sidenote: _The Fingers Needed to Play a Mordent_] In playing glissando in the right hand use the index finger when going [Sidenote: _Use Pedal With Caution in Playing Bach_] There is no piano-music that forbids in playing the use of the pedal. [Sidenote: _Four Ways to Study a Piano Piece_] [Sidenote: _The Two Hands Playing Different Rhythms_] play the piano well a good hand and so many hours of practice are not [Sidenote: _The Student Who Cannot Play Fast Music_] id = 16658 author = Wieck, Friedrich title = Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances date = keywords = Beethoven; Chopin; DOMINIE; Emma; Lizzie; MRS; Mr.; piano; play; singing; teacher; time summary = teach you a great deal of it in a different way, and every time I shall acquire a fine touch on the piano; that is, to make the tones sound as singing, as a necessary foundation for piano-playing. advance the age; have heard every thing great and fine in music, and sing when papa played the flute, said, "What ridiculous little things just as singing-teachers rely upon the culture of a fine tone, in order has been acquired, it is of no use to talk about a fine singing tone. musical culture, with special reference to piano-playing. music, to play this piece, even if it is done quite mechanically, two or chords, which allow time to bring out the singing tone, in which Three trifles are essential for a good piano or singing-teacher,-EXTRAVAGANCES IN SINGING AND PIANO-PLAYING. EXTRAVAGANCES IN SINGING AND PIANO-PLAYING. Where did he learn piano-playing?