#99927
04/03/2003 1:58 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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A very fine discussion of things that come in fours.
I can remember back in the thirties an athletic foursome waking
the whole town ringing the bells the hard way,
Now with electronics obviating muscle, a dainty damsel at a keyboard can compete with complex compositions with a minimum of travail. E.g.:
Liesbeth Janssens
Visiting Performer
Liesbeth Janssens at MSU Born in 1971 in Mechelen, Belgium, Liesbeth Janssens attended the Lemmens Institute at Leuven (Belgium), obtaining Master's Degrees in piano, harmony, music history and chamber music. She was granted the Laureate Diploma with Distinction from the Royal Carillon School at Mechelen, Belgium, in 1994. Afterwards, she pursued advanced studies with Milford Myhre (Florida) and with Tim Hurd (New Zealand). She returned to the Lemmens Institute to get a Master's Degree in Carillon in 1997.
She won prizes in numerous competitions, such as the first prize in the Rotterdam (Netherlands) Carillon Competition of 1996, second prize in the prestigious Queen Fabiola Competition 1998 in Mechelen, Belgium, and second prize in the Springfield Carillon Competition 2000 in Illinois. She forms a carillon duo with her husband Geert D'hollander, with whom she spent two years at the University of Berkeley, California, to play the University Carillon between 1997 and 1999. She has performed extensively throughout Belgium, the Netherlands, the US, France, Germany, and New Zealand. She performed at numerous Carillon Festivals such as at Berkeley University in 1998, at Springfield (Illinois) in 1999, at Innsbruck (Austria) in 2000, at Bok Tower Gardens (Florida) in 2001, and at Copenhagen (Denmark) in 2001.
Liesbeth Janssens is city carillonneur of Lommel and assistant carillonneur at the belfry carillon of Ghent, Belgium. She is also editor of the Flemish Carillon Magazine.
Ms. Janssen's upcoming recital will occur:
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#99928
04/03/2003 3:59 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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...what is to happen to works like Dorothy Sayers' The Nine Tailors ?
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#99929
04/03/2003 4:39 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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MATHEMATICAL
a list compiled by Alex Kasman
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Title: The Nine Tailors
Author: Dorothy L. Sayers
Year: 1934
Contributed by "William E. Emba":
This Lord Peter Wimsey novel is often considered Sayers' best. The plot revolves around the art of change ringing, often called "campanology" by non-campanologists. As usual with Sayers, she makes no explanatory concessions to her less-than-completely-educated readers (in this case, mostly Americans), so see http://www.changeringers.karoo.net/ for general information about change ringing, including a glossary.
Change ringing has an inherent mathematical content. Because of physical limitations and safety precautions, one can only move up or down one bell when ringing, and the art is thus focussed on generating permutations from these interchanges. (Playing tunes is simply not done.)
Sayers refers several times to this mathematical content, including having one character who has written a book on the mathematics of change ringing, and an encryption algorithm based on change ringing permutations.
In addition, most mathematically-minded readers will identity the killer long before Lord Peter figures things out, just by metafictional reasoning. This is deliberate with Sayers, who often scorned the traditional whodunit thrills in favor of writing for the sake of writing.
American readers should know that the title comes from an English saying "Nine tailors make a man". Its meaning and origin is unknown, but it is usually explained as being based on the traditional nine bells, that is, the nine tollers, rung at a man's death.
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#99930
04/04/2003 7:09 PM
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stranger
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carillon (KAR-i-lon) noun
[From Late Latin quaternion, via Old French quarregnon (by fours), from the Indo-European root from which all these words derive, *kwetwer-*
Yes! I was waiting for this one. It explains why we,
russians have the word "chetyre" (transliterated), pronounced [che-'tyh-re],or even closer one "chetverka" (transliterated),pronounced [che-'tver-kah].Both mean - "4".
And the best of them is "chetverg" (transliterated), pronounced [che-'tverg] - the fourth day of the week! There is only one single letter for [ch] sound in Russian, and no [w] sound.
Viktor V. Trukov
Viktor V. Trukov
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