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Welcome to my home page. Here you'll find various mathematical, historical, and musical topics, in many cases matched with biographical sketches. The mathematical topics include triangle geometry and number theory. The section on triangle geometry probably contains the world's largest web collection of triangle centers. The number-theoretic topics deal mostly with integer sequences and arrays.
The historical collection started out with 19th century scientists associated with the famous town, New Harmony, Indiana, located about 30 miles from Evansville. The collection has grown to include educators, writers, and artists. The music section consists of Projects. Project 1 includes links to IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project), where you can download solos arranged/composed for recorder or other treble instruments.
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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TRIANGLE CENTERS - ETC
Triangle Centers:
Classical
and
Recent
Euler Line, including 102 triangle centers
Algebraic Highways in Triangle Geometry
Triangle Centers and Central Triangles (book)
INTEGER SEQUENCES AND ARRAYS
Neil Sloane's Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Unsolved Problems and Rewards
Interspersions and Dispersions
Continued Fractions
Fractal Sequences
BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES
New Harmony Scientists, Educators, Writers & Artists
Emmy Noether, Her Mentors & Colleagues
Fibonacci Number-Theorists
Triangle Geometers
MUSIC PROJECTS
Project 1 is entitled Solos for Treble Instrument, Especially Soprano Recorder
and consists of 12 collections, each in two parts: Historical Notes and Solos. You can click below to access the Historical Notes, and from there, you can download most of the Solos. (The ones you can't download have been or will be published commercially.)
Collection 1: African-American and Jamaican Melodies
Collection 2: Christmas Carols (available from Mel Bay Publications.)
Collection 3: Irish Melodies
Collection 4: Americana to 1865
Collection 5: Americana after 1865
Collection 6: British Melodies
Collection 7: Melodies by Women Composers
Collection 8: Eastern European and Jewish Melodies
Collection 9: American Indian Melodies
Collection 10: Latin American Melodies
Collection 11: African Melodies
Collection 12: Western European
Project 2 consists of choral compositions for use by church choirs, available from G.I.A. Publications:
Four Anthems for Mixed Voices and Handbells
Scripture and Season in Song
The Hills Are Hushed This Night of Nights
O God, Beneath Your Hand
O God, Who at the Dawn of Time
Ring Out the Glad Tidings
The King of Love My Shepherd Is
This Easter Morn
Project 3 takes the form of a book of new hymn tunes, with texts by James Hart Brumm, John Core, Ralph Freeman, Daniel P. Merrick, and John Thornburg. The book is available from Wayne Leupold Editions; click New Releases.
Project 4 culminated in a Wikipedia article about a composer who lived in Evansville, Indiana (where I live) back in the 1870's. During that time, he published minstrel tunes and music for social dance. Too little is known about him, his family string-orchestra, and two of his daughters who became quite well known. To read about Henry Hart and his daughters Myrtle (harpist) and Hazel (school principal), visit Henry Hart
Project 5 is a series of articles published in The Hymn, the journal of The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada:
"Tunes Lost and Found: BIRSTAL, FOUNDRY, HOTHAM, TRUE ELIJAH," The Hymn 52, no. 1 (Jan., 2001) 21-30.
"Tunes Lost and Found: HELMSLEY, LEEDS, YORKSHIRE, WEDNESBURY," The Hymn 52, no. 2 (Apr., 2001) 25-36.
"Tunes Lost and Found: TRUMPET, LOVE-FEAST, ATHLONE, DERBY," The Hymn, no. 2 (Apr., 2002) 7-18.
"The Hymn Tunes of Richard Wayne Dirksen," The Hymn 53, no. 4 (Oct., 2002) 19-28.
"Hymn Tune Descants, Part 1: 1915-1934," The Hymn 54, no. 3 (July, 2003) 20-27.
Reprinted in Journal of the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society 29 (Feb., 2004) 17-20.
"Hymn Tune Descants, Part 2: 1935-2001," The Hymn 55, no. 1 (Jan., 2004) 17-22.
"Three Native American Hymns," The Hymn 56, no. 2 (Spring 2005) 18-29.
See the Wikipedia article Joseph Renville, who probably composed the most widely sung hymn tune of Native American origin, often credited as "Dakota Native Melody." (Renville once employed a son of Carl Friedrich Gauss.)