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  • Chapter 7 - Instrumental Traditions after 1650

  • Edited by Trevor Herbert, Royal College of Music, London, Martin V. Clarke, The Open University, Milton Keynes, Helen Barlow, The Open University, Milton Keynes
  • Book:
    A History of Welsh Music
    Published online:
    08 September 2022
    Print publication:
    29 September 2022, pp 144-170

  • Summary

    This chapter challenges the idea that the nineteenth-century association of Wales with ‘song’ is an entirely true representation of Welsh music in that period. While the continuous role of instrumental music dating back to the Middle Ages has a less conspicuous presence in narratives about Welsh music, this should not dilute its importance. While the harp - especially the triple harp - was prominent in popular traditions from the eighteenth century, other instruments were in use in both urban and rural contexts. In concert music, Welsh-born performer-composers such as Brinley Richards (piano) and John Thomas (harp) maintained careers in England while developing international reputations: Richards studied in Paris and published many compositions in Germany, while Thomas toured widely in Europe and Russia. The early years of the twentieth century saw Welsh instrumentalists studying and performing in Hungary and Germany; this was before the professionalisation of Welsh music in the twentieth century and the establishment of the world’s first national youth orchestra in 1945. The chapter is restricted to instruments (along with their repertoires and practices) that had a distinctively Welsh dimension. After its general introduction it comprises three sections: the harp and other string instruments; wind instruments; and twentieth-century manifestations of a distinctive type of instrumental revival.From the 1970s, the revival of folk music in Wales featured an increasing emphasis on instrumental performance, taking inspiration from the revivals in other Celtic countries. Jazz has also made an important - albeit less widely acknowledged - contribution to the range of instrumental music in Wales.

  • The need to implement the Convention on Biological Diversity at the high latitude site, South Georgia

  • D.K.A. Barnes, M.A. Collins, P. Brickle, P. Fretwell, H.J. Griffiths, D. Herbert, O.T. Hogg, C.J. Sands
  • Journal:
    Antarctic Science / Volume 23 / Issue 4 / 12 July 2011
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 April 2011, pp. 323-331

  • The multilateral failure to apply the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) by the target year 2010 was headline news as are the accelerating climatic changes which dictate its urgency. Some ecosystems that are vulnerable to anthropogenic change have few species listed as endangered because too little is known about their biota. The highest vulnerability may correspond to where hotspots of species endemism, range limits and physiological sensitivity overlap with areas of most rapid physical change. The old, large and remote archipelago of South Georgia is one such location. Sea-surface temperatures around South Georgia are amongst the most rapidly warming reported. Furthermore oceanographic projections are highlighting the region as extremely vulnerable to ocean acidification. We outline the first polar Darwin Initiative project and the technical advances in generating an interactive and fully integrated georeferenced map of marine biodiversity, seabed topography and physical oceanography at South Georgia. Mapping marine mega and macro-faunal biodiversity onto multiple physical variables has rarely been attempted. This should provide a new tool in assessing the processes driving biological variability, the importance of marine areas in terms of ecosystem services, the threats and vulnerabilities of Polar Regions and should greatly aid implementation of the CBD.

  • Medical-Resource Use for Suspected Tuberculosis in a New York City Hospital

  • Robert I. Griffiths, Charles L. Hyman, Samy I. McFarlane, Guillermo R. Saurina, Jane E. Anderson, Theodore O'Brien, Caroline Popper, Margaret M. McGrath, Robert J. Herbert, Marcelino F. Sierra
  • Journal:
    Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology / Volume 19 / Issue 10 / October 1998
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2015, pp. 747-753
    Print publication:
    October 1998
  • Objective:

    To compare resource use by diagnostic outcome among hospital admissions during which tuberculosis (TB) was suspected.

    Design:

    Retrospective study based on chart review and microbiology laboratory data.

    Setting:

    The department of medicine in a municipal hospital serving central Brooklyn, New York.

    Participants:

    We identified all adult admissions in 1993 during which TB was suspected. We assigned each admission to one of four mutually exclusive groups defined by the results of microbiological tests (acid-fast bacilli [AFB] smear and culture): culture-positive and smear-positive (C + S +); culture-positive and smear-negative (C + S−); culture-negative and smear-positive (C−S+); or culture-negative and smear-negative (C−S−). Each admission was divided into two separate periods to which the utilization of medical resources was assigned: the diagnostic and the postdiagnostic periods, which were separated by the date of receipt of the first definitive culture report.

    Results:

    Data on 519 admissions (93 C+S+; 57 C+S−; 30 C−S+; and 339 C−S−) were analyzed. Although C+S+ were more likely than other groups to have an admitting diagnosis of TB, approximately one quarter of the admissions without TB (C−S+, C−S−) were admitted with the principal diagnosis of TB. For the four groups, C+S+, C+S−, C−S+, and C−S−, the respective rates of TB isolation and anti-TB treatment, and median lengths of isolation were 98%, 87%, and 34 days; 74%, 74%, and 7 days; 83%, 83%, and 15 days; and 44%, 29%, and 0 days. During the diagnostic period, the rate and length of isolation were similar in the AFB-smear—positive groups (C+S+ and C−S+). We estimated that admissions without culture-proven TB (C−S+ and C−S−) accounted for 3,174 (36%) of the 8,712 days of TB isolation expended and for 65% of the 16,671 days of anti-TB treatment. The vast majority of this resource consumption (2,737 [86%] of 3,174 days of isolation) occurred during the diagnostic period before a definitive culture result was known.

    Conclusions:

    Our results suggest that prolonged diagnostic uncertainty and misclassification of cases due to false-positive and false-negative smears are associated with substantial medical-resource consumption. New diagnostic modalities that reduce the period of diagnostic uncertainty could reduce the utilization of resources later found to be unnecessary