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# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Abel

​ABEL. The son of Adam. He is mentioned once by name in the Book of Mormon (Helaman 6:27), when his murder by his brother Cain is referred to.
# A Dictionary of the Biloxi and Ofo Languages

SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY
BULLETIN 47
A DICTIONARY
OF THE
BILOXI AND OFO LANGUAGES
ACCOMPANIED WITH THIRTY-ONE BILOXI TEXTS AND NUMEROUS BILOXI PHRASES
BY
JAMES OWEN DORSEY
AND
JOHN R. SWANTON
WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1912
LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology, Washington, D. C., April 21, 1909.
Sir: I respectfully submit herewith for your consideration the manuscript of "A Dictionary of the Biloxi and Ofo Languages, Accompanied with Thirty-one Biloxi Texts and Numerous Biloxi Phrases," the work of the late James Owen Dorsey and of Dr. John R. Swanton. It is recommended that this material be published as Bulletin 47 of this Bureau. Yours, very respectfully,
W. H. Holmes, Chief.
Dr. Charles D. Walcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
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# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Aaron (III)

​AARON. One of the royal race of the Jaredites. He was the son of Heth, a descendant of Jared. In the days of his grandfather, Hearthom, who was the reigning monarch, the kingdom was taken away from him and he was kept a prisoner all his days. His son Heth, his grandson Aaron, and Aaron's son Amnigaddah were also kept in captivity all their lives by the triumphant party. In the days of Aaron's great-grandson, Com, the kingdom was reconquered for the dynasty of which Aaron was a member. At a rough guess we should imagine that Aaron lived about a thousand years before Christ.
# A Dictionary of the Book of Mormon/Abinadi

​ABINADI. A Nephite prophet, whom the Lord raised up in the land of Lehi-Nephi to reprove the wicked people of King Noah for their sins. As near as we can tell he delivered his prophecies about 150 B. C. At his first appearance he announced as the word of the Lord that if the people did not repent of their iniquities they should be brought into bondage and none should deliver them except the Lord, and He would be slow to hear their prayers in the days of their tribulations. The people did not repent, but sought the life of Abinadi and his words were fulfilled in the days of Noah's son, Limhi. Two years later he reappeared in disguise, so that the people knew him not, and pronounced yet greater woes upon the unrepentant Noah and his subjects. Slavery of the most oppressive kind, famine, pestilence and death were to be their lot, and but a few years passed before Abinadi's prophecies were fulfilled. For his bold denunciations of their abominations he was taken by the priests of the king with whom he had a long controversy on the principle of the atonement and other laws of God, which ended in his being condemned to death. ​In accordance with this sentence he was burned at the stake in the City of Lehi-Nephi. One man only, Alma the elder, of whom we have record, pleaded with Noah in behalf of Abinadi, and this so incensed the sin-degraded king that he sought to take Alma's life. Alma, however, escaped and in his place of retreat made a record of the teachings and acts of Abinadi, and to that record we are indebted for some of the most precious gospel teachings in the Book of Mormon.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Kahrer-Rappoldi, Mme

​KAHRER-RAPPOLDI, MME. See vol. iii. p. 76b.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Kapelle

From volume 2 of the work.
​KAPELLE, a musical establishment, usually orchestral. The word was formerly applied to the private band of a prince or other magnifico, but is now used to denote any band. Thus at Berlin, the Kaiserliche königliche Kapelle (97 musicians, called Kammermusiker) forms the regular orchestra of the Grand Opera, with two Kapellmeisters (Conductors), a Concertmeister (Leader or 1st Violin), and a Balletdirigent (Balletmaster). The orchestra of the Crystal Palace would in Germany be called the Kapelle, and Mr. Manns the Kapellmeister.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Kauka, Johann von

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Kapsberger, J. H.

​KAPSBERGER, J. H. See vol. iv. p. 264 b, note 3.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Karajan, Theodor

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Kalliwoda, Johann

From volume 2 of the work.
​KALLIWODA, Johann Wenzeslaus, a violin player and popular composer, was born at Prague March 21, 1800. From 1811 to 1817 he was a pupil of the Conservatorium, and from 1817 to 1823 a member of the orchestra of that town. During a visit to Munich he was introduced to Prince Fiirstenberg, who took a lively interest in his talent and appointed him conductor of his private band at Donaueschingen, which post Kalliwoda retained, in spite of various offers from more important places, for the rest of his professional life, till he retired on a pension in 1853. He died at Carlsruhe Dec. 3, 1866.
Kalliwoda, as a violinist, is regarded as one of the best representatives of the Prague school under F. W. Pixis. Without possessing very startling qualities of execution or style, his performances showed a well-finished technique, a sympathetic but not large tone, and were altogether more remarkable for elegance and a certain pleasantness than for vigour or depth of feeling.
As he travelled but little, his reputation mainly rests on his compositions. They consist of seven Symphonies—F minor (1826); E♭; D minor; C; B minor (op. 106); G minor; and F—Overtures, Concertinos and other Solo-pieces for the violin and other orchestral instruments, especially the Clarinet, Quartets for stringed instruments, Violin-Duets, Pianoforte-pieces, and a number of songs. Many of his works have enjoyed for some time, and chiefly in amateur-circles, a considerable popularity, and the Index of the Leipzig Allg. Mus. Zeitung shows a long list of performances. The works are certainly not of much importance in an artistic sense, and show little originality; but on the other hand, they are free from laboured efforts and ambitious striving after startling effects, are written in a thoroughly musicianly, unpretentious, and unaffected style, easy to understand, pleasing and effective. Their day is now over, but Schumann (in his 'Gesamm. Sehriften,' iii. 278) speaks of Kalliwoda' s 5th Symphony with enthusiasm, and mentions the interesting fact that only a few years previously Kalliwoda had put himself under Tomaschek of Prague for improvement in some branches of counterpoint in which he felt himself weak. Schumann further testified his esteem by dedicating his Intermezzi (op. 4) 'al Sign. Kalliwoda.' In the history of the music of the last 50 years, Kalliwoda occupies as an orchestral composer a position somewhat analogous to Onslow's as a composer of chamber-music.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Kammerton

​KAMMERTON. See Chorton in Appendix.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Kandler, Franz

From volume 2 of the work.
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# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Barry, Marie Jeanne Vaubenier

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BARRY, MARIE JEANNE VAUBENIER,
Countess du, was born at Vancouleurs, near the native place of Joan d'Arc, in 1744. Her reputed father was an exciseman of the name of Vaubenier. After his death her mother went with her to Paris, where she was placed in a convent, but soon left it to work at a fashionable milliner's. When she was about sixteen she became mistress to Count Jean du Barry; and soon after was presented to Louis the Fifteenth of France, who was immediately fascinated by her beauty. In order that she might appear at court, Guillaume du Barry, brother of Count Jean, consented to the king's desire, and married her, after which she was introduced to the court as Countess du Barry. Her influence over the king was excessive and of long duration, and she often used it to lead him to commit acts of injustice and imprudence. After the death of Louis the Fifteenth, Madame du Barry was shut up in a convent; but Louis the Sixteenth allowed her to come out, and restored to her the pension and residence left her by the late king. She showed herself grateful for this kindness, when Louis the Sixteenth and his family were imprisoned; for she came, regardless of ​her own danger, to England, to sell her jewels for the use of the queen and her chidren. On her return she was imprisoned and condemned, on the charge of "being a conspirator, and of having worn mourning in London for the death of the tyrant." She was guilotined on the 6th. of November, 1793. She wept much when going to the scaffold.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Barbara

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BARBARA,
Wife of the emperor Sigismond, was the daughter of Herman, Count of Cilia, in Hungary. Sigismond had been taken by the Hungarians, and placed under the guard of two young gentlemen, whose father he had put to death. While they had him in custody, he persuaded their mother to let him escape. This favour was not granted without a great many excuses for the death of her husband, and numerous promises. He promised, among other things, to marry the daughter of the Count of Cilia, a near relation of the widow; which promise he performed. He had the most extraordinary wife in her that ever was seen. She had no manner of shame for her abandoned life. This is not the thing in which her great singularity consisted; for there are but too many princesses who are above being concerned at any imputations on account of their lewdness. What was extraordinary in her was Atheism, a thing which there is scarce any instance of amongst women. The Bohemians, notwithstanding, gave her a magnificent funeral at Prague, and buried her in the tomb of their kings, as we are assured by Bonfinius in the VII. Book of the III. Decade. Prateolus has not omitted her in his alphabetical catalogue of heretics.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Barbier, Mary Ann

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BARBIER, MARY ANN,
Born at Orleans, cultivated literature and poetry with much success. She settled at Paris, where she published several tragedies and some operas. It has been said that her name was only borrowed by the Abbé Pellegrin; but this is a mistake. Mademoiselle Barbier had 'talents and learning; and the Abbé Pellegrin was never anything more to her than her friend and adviser. She died in 1746. The conduct of the tragedies of Mademoiselle Barbier is tolerably regular, and the scenes well connected. The subjects ​are in general judiciously chosen; but nothing can be more commonplace than the manner in which she treats them. In endeavouring to render the heroines of her plays generous and noble, she degrades all her heroes. We perceive the weakness of a timid pencil, which, incapable of painting objects in large, strives to exaggerate the virtues of her sex; and these monstrous pictures produce an interest that never rises above mediocrity. Nevertheless, we meet with some affecting situations, and a natural and easy versification; but too much facility renders it negligent, diffuse, and prosaic. Her tragedies are entitled "Arria and Pœtus;" "Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi;" "Tomyris, Queen of the Mussagetes;" "The Death of Caesar;" and a comedy called "The Falcon." She also wrote three operas, which were successful.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Barton, Elizabeth

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BARTON, ELIZABETH,
A religious fanatic, who lived in the reign of Henry the Eighth. She was generally called the Holy Maid of Kent, and was originally a servant at Allington; but was taught by designing persons to throw her face and limbs into contortions, to 'pretend to prophetical powers, and to denounce divine vengeance upon heretics. Venturing, however, to aim her predictions against the king, by announcing that if he should proceed in his attempt to obtain a divorce from Catharine of Arragon, and marry another woman, he would not be king seven months after; she was apprehended and tried, together with her accomplices, for high treason and executed at Tyburn, in 1534.
John Fisher, bishop of Rochester, a man of great learning and piety, was so deceived by her pretended sanctity and visions, as to become implicated with her, and to suffer, the following year, the same fate.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Baroni, Adrianne Basile

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BARONI, ADRIANNE BASILE,
A native of Mantua, Italy, sister of the poet Basile. She was so much admired for her beauty, wit, and accomplishments, that volumes were written in her praise. Her daughter Leonora possessed equal charms, and met with equal admiration; and in 1639 a collection of poems in Latin, Greek, Spanish, Italian, and French, was published, in which her beauty and perfections were portrayed. She resided long at Rome, where she appeared occasionally as a singer. She also wrote some poetical trifles. She was celebrated for her vocal powers.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Bandettini, Theresa

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BANDETTINI, THERESA.
An improvisatrice, was born at Lucca, about 1756; she was carefully educated, but was obliged, from loss of property, to go on the stage. She made her first appearance in Florence, and was unsuccessful. Some time after this, while listening to an improvisatore of Verona, she broke forth into a splendid poetical panegyric ​on the poet. Encouraged by him, she devoted herself entirely to this art. Her originality, fervid imagination, and the truth and harmony of her expressions, soon gained for her great celebrity. In 1789, she married Pietro Landucci, by whose persuasion she abandoned the stage, travelled through Italy, and was chosen a member of several academies. One of her most celebrated poems was an impromptu, delivered in 1794, before prince Lambertini, at Bologna, on the death of Marie Antoinette of France. In 1813, she returned to Lucca, where she lived retired on her small property. She published Ode tre, or Three Odes; of which the first celebrates Nelson's victory at Aboukir, the second, Suwarroff's victories in Italy, and the third, the victories of the arch-duke Charles in Germany. She also published, under the name of Cimarilli Etrusca, Saggio di Versi Estemporanci, among which the poem on Petrarch's interview with Laura, in the church, is especially celebrated. She also wrote a tragedy called "Polidoro," which obtained great success at Milan; and an epic poem, "La Deseide." She was an excellent classic scholar, and made many translations from the Latin and Greek. Nor were the qualities of her heart surpassed by these mental advantages. She was beloved by all around her for her amiable, benevolent character, and a piety sincere and cheerful, while it regulated her in the most brilliant part of her career—brought comfort, resignation, and tranquillity to her death-bed. She expired in 1837,
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Barbe de Verrue

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BARBE DE VERRUE,
A French improvisatrice, was an illegitimate child born of obscure parents. The count de Vemie adopted her after she became famous and gave her his name. She was called a troubadouresse, or female troubadour; and she travelled through towns and cities singing her own verses, by means of which she acquired a considerable fortune. She sung the stories of Griselidis; of William with the Falcon; of Ancassin and Nicolette; and a poem entitled. The Gallic Orpheus, or Angelinde and Cyndorix, which related to the civilization of the Gauls. Barbe lived to a very advanced age, travelled a great deal, and, although not beautiful, had many admirers. She flourished in the thirteenth century.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Barnard, Lady Anne

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BARNARD, LADY ANNE,
Daughter of James Lindsay, fifth earl of Balcarres, of Fifeshire, Scotland, was born December 8th. 1760; and married in 1793, to Sir Andrew Barnard, librarian to George the Third. She died without children in 1825. She wrote "Auld Robin Gray," one of the most perfect, tender, and affecting of all the ballads of humble life. The authorship of this song was unknown for a long time. Lady Anne Barnard wrote very little, and never anything equal in true pathos or poetry to this first ballad.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vicentino, Nicola

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* ↑ The place has been incorrectly given as Rome, and the date as 1513; but the latter is fixed to a year or two earlier by the notice in his 'Antica Musica,' 1555, that he was then in his 44th year.
* ↑ Caffi has singularly inverted the relation, making Vicentino Willaert's master: Storia della Musica sacra nella gia Cappella ducale di san Marco in Venezia, i. 83, 135; Venice, 1854.
* ↑ A manuscript notice furnished in 1826 by Abbate Todeschini of Vicenza to the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna, and now preserved in the library of that society, adds nothing to our knowledge of Vicentino's biography.
# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vidal

​VIDAL, a name borne in the past and present by several French musicians and writers on music. The earliest, B. Vidal, whose initial only is known, died in Paris in 1800. He was a talented guitar-player and teacher during the last quarter of the 18th century, and published sonatas, short pieces, and a method for his instrument.
Jean Joseph, born at Soreze, 1789, a clever violinist formed in Kreutzer's school, took the second Grand Prix for composition in 1809, was for 20 years in Baillot's quartet-party, conducted the orchestra of the Théâtre Italien from 1829 to 1832, played first violin in Louis Philippe's band, and was a valued teacher. He died in Paris, June 4, 1867.
Louis Antoine, born at Rouen July 10, 1820, an amateur cello-player, a friend of Vuillaume, the musical instrument maker, and an accomplished linguist, has lately made some mark as a writer on music by his beautiful work on bowed instruments, 'Les Instruments à archet,' in three 4to. volumes, with etchings by Hillemacher. Vol. i. (1876) treats of musical instrument making and makers; vol. ii. (1877) of players, especially the virtuosi of the bow; and vol. iii. (1878) of music-printing, with biographies of chamber-musicians, and a catalogue of works for instruments played with the bow. M. Vidal has been for the last few years occupied with preparations for a similar history of pianoforte-making.
François, Provençal poet, born at Aix, July 14, 1832, is the author of 'Lou Tambourin,' an interesting work on the Tambourine of Provence, and the Galoubet, or pipe. It is in the Provençal dialect, with a French translation.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vianesi, Auguste

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Viard-Louis, Jenny

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vielle

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vibrato

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Vicars Choral

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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Victimæ Paschali

​VICTIMÆ PASCHALI. A Prose, or Sequence, sung, in the Roman Church, on Easter Sunday and during its Octave, immediately after the Gradual, which intervenes between the Epistle and Gospel. The text, written in a very irregular metre, with unexpected rhymes marking the caesura and close of verses of constantly varying rhythm, is attributed, by Rambachius, to the 11th century. The old Ecclesiastical Melody, in Modes I. and II., is probably of equal antiquity, and may well have been composed by the author of the text, since it adapts itself, with never-failing facility, to the rhythmical change in the verse.
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# A Dictionary of Music and Musicians/Victorine

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# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Plunkett, Mrs.

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PLUNKETT, MRS.,
Whose maiden name was Gunning, an English writer, acquired considerable celebrity as an ingenious novelist. She published "The Packet," four volumes; "Lord Fitzhenry," three volumes; "The Orphans of Snowdon," three volumes; "The Gipsy Countess," four volumes; "The Exiles of Erin," three volumes; "Dangers through Life," three volumes; "The Farmer's Boy," four volumes; "Malvina," three volumes; "Family Stories for Young Persons," two volumes; "The Village Library for the Use of Young Persons," three volumes; and "Memoirs of a Man of Fashion."
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Polley, Margaret

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POLLEY, MARGARET,
Was one of those who suffered martyrdom for their religions opinions in the reign of Mary, Queen of England. She was burned at Tunbridge, July, 1555.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Pompeia Plotina

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POMPEIA PLOTINA,
A Roman lady, who married Trajan while he was a private individual. She entered Rome in procession with her husband when he was saluted emperor, in the year 99, and distinguished herself by her affability, humanity, and kindness to the poor and friendless. It is recorded that on approaching the threshold of the palace raised by Nero, she gazed for a moment upon the vast and splendid monument of so many crimes, and polluted by so many vices; then turning to the people, and raising her hands and eyes heaven-ward, she exclaimed, "May the gods send me forth from this august palace, whenever I may be destined to leave it, even as I now enter it; and may the high destiny to which fortune now raises me, leave ​me in possession of the same qualities with which I this day assume it."
The people applauded her speech, and seem always to have loved and revered her. And she proved herself worthy of this warm esteem. She was remarkable for the dignity of her deportment, and for the influence which her chaste example had on the morals of Roman society. Plotina loved tranquillity, and sought to incline her husband's heart to the arts of peace; but Trajan was a soldier, and his passion for military glory superseded to the last his wisdom and his discretion. As Plotina could not dissuade him from his last expedition into Africa and Asia, she accompanied him; was by his side when he passed the Tigris over a bridge of boats; and when he died she was beside him and received his last breath. Then, after she had, by her energy and influence, made her favourite Adrian emperor, she brought back the ashes of her husband to Rome; and still enjoyed all the honours and titles of a Roman empress under Adrian, who, by her means, had succeeded to the vacant throne. At her death, which occurred in the year 122, she was ranked among the goddesses, and received divine honours.
# A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Pleyel, Marie

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PLEYEL, MARIE,
Has been called "the queen of female pianists." She is a native of Paris, and was married at an early age to M. Camille Pleyel, of the firm of Pleyel and Co., the celebrated piano-forte makers. Endowed with rare natural gifts, the mind of this lady has been also greatly enriched by assiduous cultivation; she is known to possess an extensive knowledge of languages and general literature, while in the peculiar branch of art to which she has devoted herself she stands unrivalled. Her mechanical skill is something truly wonderful, and the varied expression which she gives to the musical notes drawn forth from her instrument are such as no previous performer had ever before elicited. Listz eulogistically said of her that "she was not only great among female pianists, but great amongst the greatest artistes of the world." Madame ​Pleyel first appeared before the musical public of London in 1846; she has since then several times repeated her visits, ever with an increase of popular estimation. Her latest appearance here was in the winter of 1854, at a series of concerts got up by M. Jullien. The established home of this accomplished lady has been for many years in the environs of Brussels. Her domestic life is understood to have been far from happy. She has with her an only child, a little girl, who, it is said, bids fair to become as great a musician as her mother.