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vidding_livejournal_ark2Night Before Christmas has been my research area since 1999, and I've collected antique editions of the poem. Since I've been playing more with still images of late, I've taken the opportunity to put many of those images to a version of the Christmas poem by The Trail Band.
http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/xmassong.htm#visit
This is a unique video that would be great to spread around at this season. I'm really pleased with how it came out.
There are mp2 (260 MB) and mp4 (36 MB) videos, but this is where the mp2 quality really matters because it holds up so much better over the dissolves.
I'm also starting a data area in which much of the research data I'm building with the New Zealand professor will come out next year to support his pamphlet on authorship attribution. To try it out, I'm using a database that didn't provide any good information for us, but which is fun to play with - a color-coded, alphabetical list of every word in every poem by Clement Clark Moore, Henry Livingston, and Night Before Christmas.
Interestingly enough, the frequent uses Moore makes of words from the Christmas poem almost all appear in his Saratoga poem (a teeth-clenching horror of a poem), written many years after the original publication of Visit from St. Nicholas. Henry, on the other hand, uses many of the words and base rhymes (such as belly/jelly), many years (1787) BEFORE Visit's publication in 1822.
http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/henry/data/countablepoems/merge/
The last clips of the video are from a letter that Henry Livingston wrote to his soon to be wife, Sarah Welles, in 1773. When we were first researching the authorship, Don found that this letter was the earliest written instance of the term "Happy Christmas." Some 35 years before the poem was ever published in the Troy Sentinel.
Hey, it's better than reading the phone book!
A very Happy Christmas and Holidays, Mary
http://www.iment.com/maida/keepthissecret/songvids/xmassong.htm#visit
This is a unique video that would be great to spread around at this season. I'm really pleased with how it came out.
There are mp2 (260 MB) and mp4 (36 MB) videos, but this is where the mp2 quality really matters because it holds up so much better over the dissolves.
I'm also starting a data area in which much of the research data I'm building with the New Zealand professor will come out next year to support his pamphlet on authorship attribution. To try it out, I'm using a database that didn't provide any good information for us, but which is fun to play with - a color-coded, alphabetical list of every word in every poem by Clement Clark Moore, Henry Livingston, and Night Before Christmas.
Interestingly enough, the frequent uses Moore makes of words from the Christmas poem almost all appear in his Saratoga poem (a teeth-clenching horror of a poem), written many years after the original publication of Visit from St. Nicholas. Henry, on the other hand, uses many of the words and base rhymes (such as belly/jelly), many years (1787) BEFORE Visit's publication in 1822.
http://www.iment.com/maida/familytree/henry/data/countablepoems/merge/
The last clips of the video are from a letter that Henry Livingston wrote to his soon to be wife, Sarah Welles, in 1773. When we were first researching the authorship, Don found that this letter was the earliest written instance of the term "Happy Christmas." Some 35 years before the poem was ever published in the Troy Sentinel.
Hey, it's better than reading the phone book!
A very Happy Christmas and Holidays, Mary
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