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- From: velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francois Velde)
- Subject: Re: *Very* early music
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.222026.28895@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Organization: HAC - Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
- References: <1992Dec22.180113.6104@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> <1992Dec22.190732.18246@Princeton.EDU>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 22:20:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.190732.18246@Princeton.EDU> mikulska@astro.princeton.edu (Margaret Mikulska) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec22.180113.6104@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu> velde2@jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu (Francois Velde) writes:
- >>[...]
- >>specialized in musical notation and ancient scores, which took her through
- >>ancient history, ceramology [sic], iconography, epigraphy, organology [sic],
- >>and even Greek mathematics and philosophy; [...]
- >
- >Out of curiosity: why did you put [sic] after "organology"? It's only
- >natural (in this context) that she studied the history of musical
- >instruments.
-
- Because I was translating from the original text in French, and I wasn't
- too sure the words were the same in English. As a matter of fact, ceramology
- is not in the OED (organology is, of course; apologies to organologists
- worldwide). I suppose it means the study of ceramics.
-
- --
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- Francois Velde
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