Performing Corelli's Violin Sonatas, op.5

Walls, Peter

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“…Mayo studied with Bell from 1812 to 1815, first at the Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy and later in the wards of the Middlesex Hospital. 43 Bell's and Mayo's careers remained closely intertwined, as often happened with ambitious pupils and their teachers in early-nineteenth-century London. Mayo became a house surgeon alongside Bell at the Middlesex Hospital in 1818, and in 1826 he and another of Bell's students, Caesar Hawkins, bought the Great Windmill Street School of Anatomy from Bell.…”

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Defining a discovery: priority and methodological controversy in early nineteenth-century anatomy

Berkowitz

2014

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In the early nineteenth century, Charles Bell and François Magendie engaged in a decades-long priority dispute over the discovery of the roots of motor and sensory nerves. The constantly recalibrated arguments of its participants illuminate changes in the life sciences during that period. When Bell first wrote about the nerves in 1811, surgeon-anatomists ran small schools out of their homes, natural theology was in vogue, exchanges between British and French medical practitioners were limited by the Napoleonic Wars, and British practitioners typically rejected experimental physiology and vivisection. By the end of Magendie's career, medical science was produced in the laboratory, taught through artfully produced performances of the sort at which Magendie excelled, and disseminated through journals. It is not entirely clear which historical character, Bell or Magendie, 'won' the dispute, nor that they even had clear and consistent positions in it, but what is clear is that one style of science had won out over the other, and over the course of the dispute, pedagogy lost pride of place in medical science.Keywords: Charles Bell; François Magendie; priority dispute; anatomy; vivisection; publicationIn 1811 Charles Bell, a surgeon-anatomist trying to make his living in the crowded London medical marketplace, had a little book about the nerves and brain printed for distribution to his friends and other members of the scientific community. 1 The book contained what Bell considered to be a great discovery on the workings of the nerves and brain-the discovery that spinal nerves had a double root corresponding to two distinct and differently functioning parts of the brain, and that the double root betrayed two different kinds of nerve (later determined to be motor and sensory) that were ensheathed together in the periphery of the body. As Bell himself described it:considering that the spinal nerves have a double root, and being of opinion that the properties of the nerves are derived from their connexions with the parts of the brain, I thought that I had an opportunity of putting my opinion to the test of experiments, and of proving, at the same time, that nerves of different endowments were in the same chord, and held together by the same sheath.

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Section: The Controversy: Challenges From Within Great Britainmentioning

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Defining a discovery: priority and methodological controversy in early nineteenth-century anatomy

Berkowitz

2014

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Butt

2002

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Why do we feel the need to perform music in a historically informed style? Is this need related to wider cultural concerns? In this 2002 study, John Butt sums up debates on the nature of the early music movement and historically informed performance, calling upon a seemingly inexhaustible fund of ideas gleaned from historical musicology, analytic philosophy, literary theory, historiography and theories of modernism and postmodernism. He develops the critical views of both supporters and detractors of the movement, while claiming ultimately that it has more intellectual and artistic potential than its detractors may have assumed. He also asks whether the phenomenon of historically informed performance reflects changes in the culture of western music and how it, in turn, may have influenced that culture, particularly in regard to such issues as the status of the composer, the work, intentionality and notation.

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