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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457534203321

Autore

Cavicchi Daniel

Titolo

Listening and longing [[electronic resource] ] : music lovers in the age of Barnum / / Daniel Cavicchi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Middletown, Conn., : Wesleyan University Press, c2011

ISBN

1-283-30936-X

9786613309365

0-8195-7163-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (538 p.)

Collana

Music/culture

Disciplina

780.973/09034

Soggetti

Music - Social aspects - United States - History - 19th century

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Epigraph; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. "P. T. Barnum, Introducing Madelle. Jenny Lind to Ossian E. Dodge": Capitalizing on Music in the Antebellum Era; 2. "I Think I Will Do Nothing ... But Listen": Forming a New Urban Ear; 3. "Music Is What Awakens in You When You Are Reminded by the Instruments": Hearing a New Life at Mid-Century; 4. "How I Should Like to Hear It All Over Again & Again": Loving Music, 1850-1885; 5. "Attempering This Whole People to the Sentiment of Art": Institutionalizing Musical Ecstasy; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography

IndexMusic/Culture; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

An intriguing look at music listening in nineteenth-century America



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910144836503321

Titolo

62nd Conference on Glass Problems [[electronic resource] ] : a collection of papers presented at the 62nd Conference on Glass Problems : October 16-17, 2001, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign / / John Kieffer, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westerville, OH, : American Ceramic Society, c2002

ISBN

1-282-31487-4

9786612314872

0-470-29472-8

0-470-29517-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Collana

Ceramic engineering & science proceedings, , 0196-6219 ; ; v. 23/1

Altri autori (Persone)

KiefferJohn

Disciplina

666.1

Soggetti

Glass

Glass manufacture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

62nd Lonterence on Glass Problems; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Practical Examples and Advantages of Advanced Control Applications by Expert System ESll; How to Apply Statistical and Model-Based Control Technologies to Glass Manufacturing; On-Line Redox Sensors in Industrial Glass Melting Tanks; GlassExpert: A Software Family for Improving Quality and Flexibility in Glass Plants; Knots: Analysis and Minimization in High-Quality Glasses; Glass Melting Technology of the Future: A Project of the Glass Manufacturing Industry Council; Energy Efficiency Benchmarking of Glass Furnaces

The BOC Convective Glass Melting SystemEnvironmental Benefits and Lower Cost; A Comparison of Oxygen-Enhanced Combustion Technologies; Installation of a New Burner Technology in a Float Furnace; Energy Consumption in the Feeder Forehearth; New Fused Cast Refractories for Glass Furnace Regenerators; Hot Bottom Repairing for Glass Furnaces; Glass Contact Application of High-Chrome Refractories in Soda-Lime Glass Melters; Formation of Boundary Layers



on Different Refractories in Glass Melts; The Glass Manufacturing Industry Council in I t s Fourth Year

European IPPC Directive 96/6 I IEC: Best Available Techniques for Reducing the Environmental Impact of the Glass Industry

Sommario/riassunto

This volume is part of the Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceeding  (CESP) series.  This series contains a collection of papers dealing with issues in both traditional ceramics (i.e., glass, whitewares, refractories, and porcelain enamel) and advanced ceramics. Topics covered in the area of advanced ceramic include bioceramics, nanomaterials, composites, solid oxide fuel cells, mechanical properties and structural design, advanced ceramic coatings, ceramic armor, porous ceramics, and more.