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Eric Lease Morgan Number of items in the collection; 'How big is my corpus?' ---------------------------------------------------------- 7 Average length of all items measured in words; "More or less, how big is each item?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 53503 Average readability score of all items (0 = difficult; 100 = easy) ------------------------------------------------------------------ 76 Top 50 statistically significant keywords; "What is my collection about?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3 violin 3 italian 3 Mr. 2 work 2 wood 2 illustration 2 Violin 2 STRAD 2 Paris 2 Miss 2 London 2 Jim 2 Dorothy 2 Cremona 2 Calvert 2 CHAPTER 2 Betty 2 Aunt 2 Amati 1 violinist 1 tone 1 time 1 surface 1 repair 1 place 1 old 1 maker 1 instrument 1 inch 1 good 1 glue 1 german 1 footnote 1 end 1 cremonese 1 century 1 William 1 Washington 1 Vuillaume 1 Viols 1 Violoncellos 1 Thomas 1 Stradivari 1 Stradiuarius 1 Steiner 1 Stainer 1 Salo 1 Ruth 1 Post 1 Paolo Top 50 lemmatized nouns; "What is discussed?" --------------------------------------------- 1579 instrument 1119 violin 1055 maker 814 work 811 time 726 part 724 wood 506 tone 378 year 352 girl 338 hand 334 piece 331 way 317 day 308 end 297 name 297 master 294 art 286 string 269 room 267 one 266 man 265 varnish 260 side 260 music 255 quality 255 place 247 thing 243 surface 239 back 236 case 234 century 232 model 228 character 222 glue 211 other 210 form 209 line 202 table 202 hole 192 point 189 inch 187 pupil 183 son 183 position 182 fact 179 matter 176 kind 176 attention 168 course Top 50 proper nouns; "What are the names of persons or places?" -------------------------------------------------------------- 1075 _ 930 Dorothy 597 Violin 564 Mr. 547 Betty 536 Aunt 518 Jim 433 Stradivari 356 Amati 315 Cremona 259 London 252 Alfy 241 Paris 220 Herr 216 Ludlow 206 Violins 187 Calvert 184 Gerald 174 Antonio 162 Guarneri 151 Mrs. 146 John 143 Ruth 143 James 132 Joseph 129 Gemünder 119 Miss 117 England 116 Deichenberg 114 Stainer 113 Stradiuarius 107 | 107 Italy 101 de 101 Molly 101 Charles 100 Viol 99 M. 98 Niccolo 98 . 97 Johann 92 da 92 New 92 Guarnerius 92 Fiddle 85 Thomas 85 Giuseppe 85 Ephraim 85 Dr. 83 York Top 50 personal pronouns nouns; 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"How are things described?" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 2305 not 1010 so 975 good 923 very 740 great 694 well 678 then 661 more 643 now 587 old 585 other 561 much 547 little 543 many 520 up 448 most 441 only 439 first 423 out 413 just 413 as 397 about 376 here 354 again 328 fine 327 such 322 italian 310 too 300 same 298 long 298 high 298 also 291 down 272 few 269 early 266 small 258 large 248 however 246 all 242 there 237 never 237 away 236 excellent 236 back 232 even 228 new 213 quite 212 off 210 therefore 207 over Top 50 lemmatized superlative adjectives; "How are things described to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 270 good 108 most 85 great 81 least 65 fine 49 high 38 early 19 large 15 slight 15 Most 10 low 9 late 8 near 6 old 6 happy 6 dear 6 close 5 thick 5 rich 5 plain 5 handsome 5 bad 4 young 4 wide 3 weak 3 warm 3 strong 3 simple 3 pure 3 narrow 3 minute 3 lovely 3 hard 3 grand 3 choice 3 bright 2 wild 2 thin 2 sweet 2 small 2 slender 2 safe 2 rough 2 innermost 2 full 2 faint 2 eld 2 easy 2 clear 1 wise Top 50 lemmatized superlative adverbs; "How do things do to the extreme?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 340 most 29 well 11 least 2 highest 1 quaintest 1 near 1 handsomest 1 brightest Top 50 Internet domains; "What Webbed places are alluded to in this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2 www.gutenberg.net 2 www.archive.org Top 50 URLs; "What is hyperlinked from this corpus?" ---------------------------------------------------- 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/2/2/28221/28221-h/28221-h.htm 1 http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/8/2/2/28221/28221-h.zip 1 http://www.archive.org/details/dorothystriumph00raymiala 1 http://www.archive.org Top 50 email addresses; "Who are you gonna call?" ------------------------------------------------- Top 50 positive assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-noun?" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6 _ is _ 5 varnish is very 4 instruments are very 4 instruments are well 4 varnish is not 4 violins do not 4 work is well 3 _ have _ 3 _ see _ 3 dorothy did not 3 instruments are highly 3 makers are now 3 tone is not 3 varnish is quite 3 violin takes part 3 violin was not 3 work is not 2 _ are _ 2 _ do _ 2 dorothy did n''t 2 dorothy had ever 2 dorothy was all 2 girls were ready 2 instrument is so 2 instruments are generally 2 instruments are remarkable 2 instruments are second 2 instruments are still 2 instruments are therefore 2 instruments are worthy 2 instruments is excellent 2 instruments was not 2 instruments were not 2 instruments were probably 2 jim had not 2 maker is chiefly 2 maker is more 2 makers did not 2 name is generally 2 name was dorothy 2 parts are not 2 string is about 2 time is not 2 tone is also 2 tone is excellent 2 tone is powerful 2 tone was not 2 varnish is equal 2 varnish is excellent 2 varnish is frequently Top 50 negative assertions; "What sentences are in the shape of noun-verb-no|not-noun?" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 betty was no longer 1 betty were no doubt 1 girl had no ornament 1 girls are not so 1 girls have no right 1 instrument was not more 1 instruments are not so 1 instruments is no doubt 1 jim was not so 1 maker had no time 1 maker has no longer 1 maker was not likely 1 makers did not invariably 1 makers left no other 1 makers was not less 1 makers were not as 1 masters were not always 1 part is not well 1 parts are not much 1 parts are not properly 1 stradivari did not absolutely 1 time is no desideratum 1 time is not far 1 tone is not fine 1 varnish is not equal 1 varnish is not so 1 violin had not then 1 violin is not scientifically 1 violins are not equal 1 violins do not always 1 violins is not chemically 1 wood is not good 1 work has not only 1 work has not so A rudimentary bibliography -------------------------- id = 36147 author = Gemünder, George title = George Gemünder''s Progress in Violin Making With Interesting Facts Concerning the Art and Its Critics in General date = keywords = America; Bull; Gemünder; Vuillaume; italian; tone; violin summary = One day Vuillaume handed Gemünder a violin, with the remark that he Gemünder the greatest violin maker of all times, for Wilhelmj had admired Gemünder''s "Kaiser" violin at the Vienna Exhibition, as it was VIOLINISTS AND AMATEURS HAD OF THE TONE OF OLD AND NEW VIOLINS--HOW violins have not been constructed so as to possess the tone of old Gemünder can bring such a tone in new violins!" good player, was present and anxious to hear the Italian violin. At the time when Gemünder had his violin in the Exhibition of Vienna, have acknowledged the tone in George Gemünder''s violins to be of the the quality of tone which is fit for concerts, for most Italian violins knowledge of the production of tone as the best violin maker. also were his new violins, so far as the production of tone was repairer, or on the violin maker, if it is a new instrument. id = 21982 author = Hart, George title = The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators date = keywords = Amati; Andrea; Antonio; Bass; Bergonzi; Carlo; Charles; Count; Cremona; Duke; England; English; Fiddle; Francesco; Gasparo; Giovanni; Giuseppe; Guarneri; Italy; Jacob; Johann; John; Joseph; London; Mr.; Niccolo; Paolo; Paris; Salo; Stainer; Stradivari; Thomas; Violin; Violoncellos; Viols; William; cremonese; footnote; german; italian; violinist summary = maker, and termed "The English Amati;" high character of his work and Violin; his purchase of Stradivari''s instruments, patterns, tools, musical historians as to a bowed instrument of the Fiddle kind having value set upon the Violin both as a work of art and as a musical musicians contemporary with the great Violin-makers were writing music instruments, the makers of Violins must certainly have enjoyed The chief features of the Italian School of Violin-makers having been This famous maker of Violins was born at Cremona in the year 1687, and believing that Violin makers of the order of Stradivari must be like Stradivari as Violin-makers for upwards of sixty-three years. work said to have been shown in the instruments of this maker. "John Betts, Real Musical Instrument Maker, at the Violin and German music-publishers and instrument-sellers, and were not Violin-makers. playing most musical instruments, and least of all the Violin. id = 28252 author = Mayson, Walter H. (Walter Henry) title = Violin Making ''The Strad'' Library, No. IX. date = keywords = CHAPTER; Free; LIBRARY; PLATE; Post; STRAD; illustration; inch; violin; wood; work summary = inches from the edge, cut a one-inch square right through the wood, your right, clamp down a piece of hard wood, three inches broad, and inch broad, and make the edge of the wood clean, and so even all them, in my hand gouge 24, three-eighths of an inch, and work them I begin by firmly placing the wood, etc., as before, and working the off the work done, and the next stage is glueing on the end blocks, broad centres or outside edges thus exposed, I work rapidly a good work on the back up to cutting the groove after purfling, plate 6, the rib, and cut away the small bit of lining as just marked. fit again, ribs going to end blocks now free, linings _flush_ with make a clean cut hole in centre of broad end of violin for the end id = 37309 author = Pearce, Joseph title = Violins and Violin Makers Biographical Dictionary of the Great Italian Artistes, their Followers and Imitators, to the present time. With Essays on Important Subjects Connected with the Violin. date = keywords = Amati; Cremona; Guarnerius; London; Paris; Steiner; Stradiuarius; Violin; century; instrument; maker summary = fine tone of a good violin will not now tolerate a bad piano-forte. flat Stradiuarius Model, made of good wood, with amber varnish, and all the better class of instruments is excellent, the tone good of all; now given to the Italian instruments over all the old English makers. pupils of Stradiuarius and made some good instruments of his pattern. best instruments of Nicholas Amati, Antonius Stradiuarius, and Joseph These makers produced some very good but not handsome instruments. a pupil of Steiner, and the first violin maker of this well known name. All his instruments are of a good Italian quality of tone, and are absence of the three great makers, Nicholas Amati, Antonio Stradiuarius the greatest maker of his time, and connoisseurs value his instruments repairing old instruments, he says, "There is no violin maker now, who artiste is not famous for producing a great tone in his instruments, id = 26878 author = Petherick, Horace title = The Repairing & Restoration of Violins ''The Strad'' Library, No. XII. date = keywords = CHAPTER; DIAGRAM; James; STRAD; end; glue; good; illustration; italian; old; place; repair; surface; time; violin; wood; work summary = Insertion of Pieces of Wood for Repairing Lost Parts-with Fresh Wood Large Portions of Upper Table--Lost Parts possibly the very slight portion of glue originally placed at the time present in good glue, especially with regard to violin repairing. may include temporarily glueing fresh wood on to the old parts to be purchase, it may be necessary to glue one or more pieces of wood, cut cutting the small veneer of wood to be placed in position, care should great neatness--the line of old work and new wood being exactly level, careful measurement cut pieces to fit as exactly as possible the parts When a sufficient time has elapsed for the glue to dry, a piece of hard, parts, as to leave little or no glue above the surface of the wood. You will take care to have the upper surface of the fresh wood a little THE REPAIRED PARTS HAVING FRESH WOOD. id = 28221 author = Raymond, Evelyn title = Dorothy''s Triumph date = keywords = Aunt; Aurora; Baltimore; Bellvieu; Betty; Calvert; Deichenberg; Dorothy; Ephraim; Gerald; Herr; Jim; Judge; Miss; Molly; Mr. summary = The train on which Dorothy and Jim, together with Ephraim, Aunt "Don''t believe I''d like to go to a girls'' school," said Jim. Dorothy turned in time to catch a suspicious moisture in Jim''s eyes, "Well, Ephy," said Dorothy, "soon we''ll see Aunt Betty again. "I shall never try to turn you from your purpose, Jim," said Dorothy. "And how is Aunt Betty?" the girl asked, a little catch in her voice. "Young ladies," said Aunt Betty, regarding her great-niece "Dear Aunt Betty," said the girl, earnestly, putting an arm "Yes; he is going with us on the trip--at least, Aunt Betty said he "You are _my_ dearest chum, Dorothy Calvert!" cried Aunt Betty, who "I have talked it over with Dorothy," said Aunt Betty, "and we have the place, Aunt Betty, the girls, Jim and Ephraim were all waiting on Aunt Betty quickly assented, and turning to Dorothy, Mr. Ludlow said: id = 32556 author = Raymond, Evelyn title = Dorothy''s Tour date = keywords = Alfaretta; Alfy; Aunt; Betty; Calvert; Dauntrey; Dorothy; Jim; Ludlow; Miss; Mr.; Mrs.; Ruth; Washington summary = "Let it wait, Dorothy," said Aunt Betty, "till we are all at the "And, dear," said Aunt Betty, "you know, Dorothy, the people go to the Jim was ready in no time, so he went into Dorothy''s sitting room and "Well, Dorothy girl," said Aunt Betty, turning to her, "what will it Turning to Aunt Betty, Dorothy said, "It''s Mr. Ludlow." "What is Alfy talking about, Aunt Betty?" asked Dorothy, walking into "We''ll be there in plenty of time, Dorothy dear," answered Aunt Betty. "Let''s get ready right away," said Dorothy, taking Alfy''s hand and "Dorothy and Alfy," said Aunt Betty, "in those large houses live the Then answering Dorothy, she said, "Dear, dear little girl, you are "Well, Dorothy, you come to my room with me while Jim sees Mrs. Quarren in the library," said Ruth, rising and carefully pushing her Dorothy and Aunt Betty stayed home as arranged, while Jim and Alfy