it's possible that the manuscripts that survive were not meant for musicians.e copy to give to the king so that he could have it in his library. [low-pitched string music] (narrator) another form of notation known as tablature shows instrumentalists where to place their fingers rather symbolically representing sound. because notation for the chinese chin does not specify all aspects of performance, players must develop their own rhythmic interpretations. (yu) the chin music is a very ancient chinese music. there are more than 3,000 pieces of chin music existing in china in a simplified chinese character notation. this tablature shows you which string your hand put out and what kind of techniques. but unfortunately, there's no rhythm at all which means you cannot read off music directly from the notation. in most cases, different chin player has their own different interpretation for the same piece. but if the interpretation is very good and everybody likes it, then you become popular and people accept it. (narrator) while notation and sound recording can preser

(herreid) manuscripts from before the 16th century do not indicate the instrumentation.ither didn't care what instruments it was played on, or it was so obvious to the people at the time that it would be appropriate for recorders, say, or for viols, or for a lute ensemble, that this information just doesn't come to us. one of the most important sources of information is iconographical sources, meaning paintings, illuminations, and manuscripts, sculptures from the time, which show actual musicians from the middle ages and renaissance playing music. and by looking at these, we can gain a lot of information about how instruments were being held, what the instruments actually looked like. many of these instruments, especially from earlier periods, don't survive as museum instruments. the intended audience of a given piece of music is crucial to understanding why it was performed and how it was performed. one of the great lute virtuosos of the renaissance was playing lullabies for a four year-old heir to a throne. and that obviously gives you an insight as to what maybe this

so say i get a hawaiian manuscript bring in a run that by someone who is actually hawaiian to make sure that that person did the research and is not only telling a good story but doing it in a way that is culturally culturally i'm always just looking for a good a story and i'm also thinking about where our gaps are. we have literally -- literary experts. why don't you had books about this. the books on the subject. first of all i'm thoroughly interested in him. i try my best to make a final copy and of course it's can be edited it's always edited it is the nature of the beast. i also might have a sample illustration and i will send it off to whoever it is that i will send the book too. in the editor that i'm sending this manuscript into is not a random person you have to do your research, you have to make sure whoever you're spending it to for the types of books that you are creating. the reason why you want to do that is because no one is gonna re- invent the real for you. they already have a line of distribution they already have a seal team that has been prepped in a certain way. you

i really throw myself into a manuscript for, i mean, sometimes 12 to 18 hours at a time, whereas he's so much more will-adjusted, and, like, takes naps and pets the cat and makes an espresso, and goes for a walk. and, so, we kind of balance each other out. >> seth: now, when you're on one of those 18-hour writing jags, if he takes off his headphones and looks at you, do you take off yours, or do just you keep going? >> sometimes i'm like, "gah, put your headphones back on." [ laughter ] >> seth: yeah. >> but, yeah, i will you know -- >> seth: you write young adult? >> i do. >> seth: this new book is aimed at middle schoolers. what does someone like you read. what does -- when you have time to read, what do you read? >> my gosh. yeah, so usually after writing a manuscript, i feel sort of emotionally and artistically depleted, and i go on these big writing -- after i do a writing binge -- >> seth: yeah. >> i go on a reading binge, and i'll read anything. like, i just had this big, like, tolstoy kick. and i just read "anna karenina" and "war and peace," and then i, you know, washed that

yeah, so usually after writing a manuscript, i feel sort of emotionally and artistically depleted, and i go on these big writing -- after i do a writing binge -- >> seth: yeah. >> i go on a reading binge, and i'll read anything. like, i just had this big, like, tolstoy kick. and i just read "anna karenina" and "war and peace," and then i, you know, washed that down with some bodice rippers, and it was great. >> seth: oh, that's great. >> it was a nice, like -- >> seth: bodice rippers, you mean some good old-fashioned romance novels. >> yes, historical romance novels. >> seth: oh, that's great. >> yeah, it all goesn so, you knew this was not your plan to be a writer. you were all -- you had finished school, did not think you were gonna be writer. how did you make this leap, and how did you make this leap into this genre? >> right, so when i was -- i devoted my life to the humanities. i was -- went to a liberal art college where my focus was in literature and philosophy, and i took myself very seriously -- >> seth: okay. >> to the point of it was a problem, like discussing kant over lunc

a new museum in philadelphia is showing off a collection of fine art, manuscripts and a life size ship all honoring the american revolution. >>> we begin with the forecast and what a difference a day makes, it's a welcome change after weeks of hot and steamy weather, looking live outside sky 6 hd showing you bright blue skies over center city. accuweather says we can enjoy the same conditions tomorrow. karen rogers is at the big board with the details. >> reporter: it's nice to be here with good news. yesterday a steamy high of 92 degrees and today way down there 80 degrees for your high, around the average high of 78. what a big change. the temperature dropping more than 10 degrees. satellite 6 along with action radar i have this on the close-up view. we saw the cloud cover in the morning and some spots had an early morning shower. now confined to southwestern new jersey and delaware, clouds to the south and north and west. and bright sunshine. but all of us enjoying a change in the temperatures and low humidity too. 71 in martins creek and 69 in quakertown and 69 in pottstown and 73

it took me about three to six months to shape the manuscript and get -- it took me about a year to undoof my mistakes that i had made in editing and those came just -- even though i knew he was a truthful story teller and had the record, i was thinking he would get things wrong, cultural reference. at one point an intlog -- interrogator was there and he said, we are not -- you are not going to starve, we will feed you off your ass. we learned about rectal dehydration. i thought he was doing exaggerated flourish, it took me all this time to realize that, lineally bien he was -- line by line he was telling the truth and he would move general to specific in skillful way of something who was not a professional writer. that's what it was for me, learn to go get myself out of the way

alex haley who i knew for ten years said he would write, correct his manuscript sometimes 26 times. i tell this to students who write a paper and turn it. i say alex haley won the national book award not by turning his book in the first time. we rewrote it. he always said use a green pen instead of a red pen because a red pen looks like i got you and a green pen is more friendly for corrections. >> you are an author as well? >> i tried to be. i enjoy writing but writing is hard. it is a skill that lots of young people today don't learn because they don't do enough. they are too glued to the screen and twitter. they are able to write a simple sentence with the essence and say it in plain english but you have to persuade people and being a good writer helps. >> what was your book six months off about? >> that was about six months our family spent in australia after i was governor. we picked the place because we had two teenagers and a seven year old. we lived in sydney and the kids went to school and that was our six months off. i had a friend peter jenkins who encouraged me about wri

he said he would write the collective manuscripts i toldi this to students. i tried to write and encourage my staff members to. it is a skill lots of young't people don't learn because they don't do enough they are glued to the screen and twitter. but to sort of pick out the information with the essence of it is to say it in plain english and being able to persuade the people you write is an important part of public life and being ar good writer helps. >> it was about the six months our families spent in australiaa after i was governor. my wife said after about seven years we have to get out of here so we picked a place. we have three teenagers and a 7-year-old. the day that i was sworn out ofn office we moved to sit and look at the six months and went to school and that was our six months off. i had a friend called peter jenkins who encouraged me tos write a book about big governors so we visited and i went to random house i think and the and publishers said to me who do you want to write about and he said we want to write about what aan great governor he's

it is con wanted -- it is complemented by objects indoors including a manuscript including the first published african-american -- and a warning poster from 1951. and also a professor. they will be discussing a poetry reading on the site on september 24. welcome to the program. there is a lot to unpack here. tell us about all we will see. >> it is a sculpture, the pavilion, ironic is that it wasn't the beauty of the setting that attracted me to this location. the trustees asked me to work with them to pick site. and it is such a stunning place. it was really the history that is what was most impressive. cracks what i was looking at right now? artists that are integral to the project. it is cooked by haley house. there was a discussion. we told stories about food and learned about the history of food. >> so, how is race and all of these complexities connected to what you are showing us in this exhibit? >> well, we were talking about this earlier. and the idea of overt race, racism, explicit racism, it is something that has largely been dealt with. but it is the systemic and failed for

write, alex haley, i knew him for about ten years, he said that he would write sometime correct his manuscript 26 times. he was a student and he would write a paper internet amen alex haley won the national book award, not by turning his book in the first time, he rewrote it. he also said here is use a green pen instead of red. because a red pen means i caught you and a green pen is moree friendly for corrections. enjoy i enjoy writing and i encourage my staff members to write. writing is hard. oniting is hard. and it is a skill that lots of young people today do not learn because they do not do enough. thereto glued to the screen and to twitter. but being able to write a simple sentence and pick out a mass of information what the essence of it isn't say it in plain english, been able to persuade half the people you write is an apart part of public life and being a good writer helps. >> host: what was your book six months off the bus? spee2 that was about six months our family spent in australia after i was governor. after seven years of it she said we have to get out of here. we had three tee

. >> it has manuscripts and even this life size ship. there will be permanent and temporary exhibit galleries and theaters and education spaces. >> there are a few more touches to come at the plaza. later on they will install two massive bronze sculptures that will depict paintings from the revolution. >> pretty. >>> a perfect day to spend outside and a better day to help others. dozens of volunteers with nha services helped to spruce up two residents here in german town, they cleaned and paints and installed a garden. they house men and women with behavioral health challenges and helps people with developmental disabilities. >>> and backpacks stuffed with school supplies are on their way to children in need. the part of a partnership with 6 abc and for man mills. the police athletic league will distribute the backpacks to help get the students started off right. narrator: terrorism here at home. fourteen americans killed in a san bernardino mass shooting... but after this tragedy - when pat toomey had the chance to ban suspected terrori

a new museum in philadelphia is showing off a collection of fine art, manuscripts and a life size shipll honoring the american revolution. >>> we begin with the forecast and what a difference a day makes, it's a welcome change after weeks of hot and steamy weather, looking live outside sky 6 hd showing you bright blue skies over center city. accuweather says we can enjoy the same conditions tomorrow. karen rogers is at the big board with the details. >> reporter: it's nice to be here with good news. yesterday a steamy high of 92 degrees and today way down there 80 degrees for your high, around the average high of 78. what a big change. the temperature dropping more than 10 degrees. satellite 6 along with action radar i have this on the close-up view.

congress, and the carnegie corporation of new york will present more than 163,000 pages, books, manuscriptsmaps to the government of o afghanistan. it's a digitized archive thatit goes back to the 1300s. and online, we have more from b carla hayden. we asked her to pick the children's book she loves the most. hear her answer in a bonus video on our facebook page: facebook.com/newshour. >> woodruff: a news update before we go. late today pos curators in new jersey charged the suspectey in this weekend's bombing attacks with attempted murder.mu ahmed khan rahami faces fiveve counts of attempted murder of police officers in connection with the shootout that led to his capture. federal prosecutors are still weighing charges over the bombings. and that's the newshour for tonight. on tuesday: we'll look at a new documentary, "defying the " nazis," by ken burns and artemis joukawsky that tells the story >> ifill: and i'm gwen ifill. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbsal newshour, thank you and good night. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided

celebrate out here in front of the museum and then over here in haven't from of the washington manuscript there's going togt be concert, reading, history lessons. so much for people to enjoyment we are learning the president andre l mrs. obama will be therr the opening ceremonies on sat, september 46789 when think be joined bym former first coupleue george w bush and former first lady laura bush. supreme court chief justicece roberts will also attend. the entire weekend has been planned for those in town to celebrate. freedom sounds, a community celebration will take place friday, september 23 until the 25th.25 the festival will include, music, dance, oral history activities and two big concertsr on sat and sunday evening. have you gotten your passes yet you might be out of interest in getting those passes the smithsonian offered extended hours and timed passes for those wanting to get a scheduled tourr of the museum.m. we checked the website aroundoud 2:00 and found the nextxt openings, get this, october 25 and 26th. so there were tickets available earlier this afternoon as we said on th

on microfilm i looked at them -- i went to the wilson papers and there were two full manuscript boxes of letters wilson received on the nomination of brandeis. it was very interesting. 90% of course were praising him. i think i found one letter that mentioned he was jewish. the rest said what phillippa said. he is a radical and should not be on the court. i think we both agree there was a mode of anti semitic who say if he wasn't a jew he would have been voted down. on the court, you have to be careful. he did vote to strike down the nra during the new deal. but he voted to support every other measure even if he didn't like him. he said he would vote against the widow, the orphan and there was a third one there, i don't remember what it was, if he fought depending on the law. in his majority opinions, he like everybody else, has to speak for a minimum of four other people. he wrote very careful, very short, very concise. these are the facts and this is the law. whau read his decent that is where you get what i think jeff is talking about because his descents are essentially brandeis.

i was kind of in shock, 'cause i met charley and originally gave him the manuscript just to get notes you know, to tell me some direction, maybe, like, you know, get an agent or another publishing house. and that phone call of like, "hey, i wanna publish your novel," and i was just kind of relieved, but also still in shock. i kind of--i thought he was messing with me. i thought he was just playing with me, because i read some of the publications, or books that he's published when i was in middle school and high school. and when i met him, i didn't really know who he was until he handed me some of the books and i was like, "i read this in high school. oh, i read this one as well." like, that kind of thing. damian: do you hope that maybe somebody who's at the beginning stages will pick up "soledad and the sea" and read it, and then rethink about maybe what's going through their minds at that time? emmanuel: that would be great. for me, it's like, there's a lot of--hopefully a lot of humanity in the book, because that's a topic no one really wants to talk about. everyone--no one really w

through her study of ancient manuscripts and other scholarly work, she has generated new interest ande about our contemporary search for knowledge and meaning. [applause] accepting on behalf of the prison university project, jody lewen. [applause] the 2015 national humanities medal to the prison university project for transforming the lives of currently incarcerated people through higher education. its programs offer opportunity and inspiration to their students, providing an example for others to emulate. [applause] >> abraham verghese. [applause] the 2015 national humanities medal to abraham verghese for reminding us that the patient is the center of the medical enterprise. his range of proficiency embodies the diversity of the humanities, from his efforts to emphasize empathy in medicine, to his imaginative renderings of the human drama. [applause] >> isabel wilkerson. [applause] the 2015 national humanities medal to isabel wilkerson for championing the stories of an unsung history. her masterful combination of intimate human narratives with broader societal trends allows us to mea

. >> and what came in this envelope was a manuscript with a dedication to me saying he wanted me to be the executor of it. >> stephen: is he did dead? >> this is what's interesting. no. ( laughter ) ( applause ) the-- the return address was a lawyer's address in the caymen islands. so then what happened is that book on tape thing for amazon. >> sure, sure, sure, digital books. >> they came into this thing. and he had wanted me to try to get it, you know, heard before the the election. and they came in great, and it's kind of -- >> it's a quick way to publish. you don't have to actually print it. you just do an audio book. >> and it's the new age of literature. up people to have information-- i clearly want people to have this information because what i read was something i felt was he demanded it be before the election. >> stephen: i read the book, too. i got a similar-- i got a phone call from the middle of the night on the first day of my vacation in august, and it was, like, a gravelly voice, los angeles phone number, somebody said, "would you read this book?" >> right. >> stephen:

gave me this great advance, a three part, one part when you sell it, one part when you turn in the manuscripti had that money and that is how i use it. >> host: i would have thought you were on the plane yourself. >> guest: no. >> host: in river of doubt and your other books, you seem to deal with a great many people and travel to a great many places, afraid of nothing. >> host: that is not true. >> guest: i have a lot of fears. my fear is overshadowed by my interest. >> host: did you go to south africa? >> guest: i went to where the mine was. the whole where it was. >> host: you have written about teddy roosevelt, james garfield, what drew you to their stories? >> guest: i love to read biographies but as a writer, i like to tell a tighter story, more personal story where i can spend 5 years focusing and digging in, and what i hope is eliminating, the time in which we live, and often when we look at history, we are drawn to a big public moment, and infamy, what interests me are the more private moments of struggle when someone like james garfield or terrified, instant churchill, and in those

i only made one provision, i sat back someone from the department to review the manuscript before it's published to raise objections, but only objections to information that might harm a witness are in danger of prosecution. that is what i was hoping to get out of bed. the only thing that came up with that they didn't like was the couple minor things like some information that might identify a potential witness which is why i is why i have them do this. i got rid of that and i got one detectives eye color well. i think green eyes, not hazel eyes. i said there seems to be a difference. and so i think pg county is a fascinating place. what a great place to set the book. they are set in the inner city. gritty, urban environments. pg county is literally this fascinating place that is so diverse that just culturally, ethnically, racially, but landscape. one day i was at a homicide scene in farm country in two weeks later -- two days later i was at a homicide scene in bradley park in like an illegal apartment that was like an illegal brewhouse where they were giving away here in everything.

they can walk, they can go, it's go, it's funny because i had a white person who read the manuscript and i talked about white drinking fountains, some were colored fountains sunset colored only and some said white only. and they and they so what are you talking about? there were not white only on the fountains, they didn't have to, it, it was assumed there white only. they are colored only on some of the fountains but not white only. so the apartheid world, it was not created until the early years of the 20th century by the way. that's what's interesting. the jim crow rules. that's when they came in a talked about the transit system being segregated in mobile. up until until then it was a very different world. up until then black people could go to restaurants restaurants. the south is at a crucial juncture now and we'll see which way things go. >> on that note. >> okay, thank you very much. [applause]. [inaudible] [inaudible] >> most in the white house historically who spend their whole lives hungering and thirsting for this edition find themselves unsatisfied when they reach it. it

one part when you sell it, one part when you turn in the manuscript and one when it comes out .i had that moneyand i used it . >> i would've thought you wouldhave flown the plane yourself . >> no, that was not a possibility. >> in river of doubt and your other two books you're incredibly generous and acknowledging. you deal with a great many people and traveled to a great many places . your beautifully curious and afraid of nothing. >> that's not true. actually, i have a lot of fears but my fears are shattered by my interest. >> you go down a mine in south africa? >> i went to where the mine was. there's the whole where it was. >> so far you've written about teddy roosevelt, james garfield and winston churchill. how are there common elements through your stories? >> we were talking about this earlier. i love to read biographies but as a writer i like to tell a tighter story, more sort of personal story where i can spend five years, really focusing and digging indeed and i'm looking for a story that i hope is eliminating about the person and about the time in which they live and

[laughter] so the agent interestingly to -- whooduced me to mark, helped me write a manuscript.tephen's research task was to assemble a great archivist and researchers. hour after hour, they would go through and photograph the original letters in the historical society of pennsylvania. mark: that archive has 45 feet. and he's brilliant young people helped us through every single one of them. stephen: and it was to the significant ones on this 30 -- on this server. at -- i hado great not heard of peggy shippan until stephen brought it to me. he did not know what he was getting into. [laughter] mark: it was a great project. knowinge great -- not much about it, i had all sorts of journalistic questions. i don't know anything about the high hair worn by women and that era, can you get me stuff on that? they would shoot me academic articles about how high here was one. some of that stuff ends up boiling down to three sentences in the book. the loyalist women were their hair really high. i was considered a difference between the pro-patriot women and improve british women. women.pro-b

unabomber wrote all day and stress and rage and pissed off my ed for and i manage to submit the manuscript by thanksgiving, christmas or so and five were four month was editing and legal review and all of the rest of it and out it came 40 weeks after the exactly 40 weeks after book came -- book deal was struck. >> yeah. so i would say toying with the idea it would destroy a year or two of your life. for that question -- >> hi, i haven't had a chance to read your book. only the a little bit of it. but what i do get from it is it's sort of a tell-all about which brings out some of what's wrong, brutal about capitalism in silicon valley. here's my question to you, in your journey, have you ever thought about can we do better than capitalist? >> yeah, you know, i get asked that question like mark fisher in the book the scene with ipo i made comparison between facebook an communist where distant cousins are smoldering not an like from churchill that democracy is worth way to run a country other than other ways that have been tried to capitalism is like the worst way to actually divide the spoil

we're told it's a manuscript, and investigators now are going through it to see if there's any other information that could lead them to why he was behind this attack on friday night. reporting live in west philadelphia, deanna durante, nbc 10 news. >>> we're also following the latest on the victims of the shooting rampage. nbc 10's tim furlong will have an update on their conditions coming up at 5:30. >>> turning now to our weather, nbc 10 first alert radar are tracking rain that is slowly making its way out of most of our area after a wet start to the workweek. the rain did cause some flooding at the jersey shore. take a look at this viewer picture of bennett avenue in wildwood. the street looks more like a river there. >> we could definitely use the rain, probably not that much. let's get an update from first alert meteorologist krystal klei. >> we did need the rain, although maybe a little too heavy in some areas. this is what we're looking at, the heaviest rain has moved offshore. still seeing stronger thundershowers move through delaware, moving into cape may here. currently st

when bachelder finished his manuscript which came in at 2550 pages, everybody was disappointed. didn't use any of that correspondence. andidn't use the interviews the tour as he took the veterans on the battlefield. all this really is is stringing together all the official reports for the battle of gettysburg from the beginning to the end. basically, bachelder was a compiler. he gathered these reports and put a narrative in between. he didn't have any official history. he put in the they paid $50,000 for something collect just going to dust. that is why the maps never got published. they never published the history. so i have to ask myself the question, why did bachelder ignore and leave out all of this material he had? the battle was controversial. bachelder's work year wasn't done. he didn't want to be controversial, he didn't what to jeopardize finishing his work. he took the safe course. he didn't do anything interpretive at all, he just laid out the facts and no one could attack him on that except they were all disappointed in him. until he died in 1894 in one way or anothe

it was a manuscript matt which means it was never published. in the bibliometric tech website they don't have it anymore, they took it down or some. son. it used to have this zoom feature where you could zoom in on this amazing map and rutan's map was a surveyed map, not just a schematic map like some of the other french maps were. you could actually go down roads and see houses. one thing that he did was he wrote down the names of the french columnists living in natchez. this was 1723. you can actually go and look at where these people live. some people who later became quite well known. so the opportunity to see this wonderful map. now i have a good color copy of it thanks to the university of north carolina chapel hill. in the department of archives and history at natchez has a full-size copy of this map.be but these colonial maps being put on line like that allow people like me to see them.theyu otherwise they would've been rolled up and kept in the french archives. who knows who would've gotten the chance to look at them. >> so that was an

mountains and theets over the mekong, achievements of ancient civilizations that echo in the ruins, manuscripts preserved at your temples. tomorrow i will experience some of this heritage myself. i only regret that i know this is called the land of a million elephants, but secret service will not let me ride an elephant. but maybe i will come back when i am no longer president. your daily lives, we see the strength that draws so many of you from your buddhist faith, a faith that tells you you have a other, to to each live with kindness and honesty, and we can help end suffering if we embrace the right mindset and actions. in literature, we see the values that define the people of laos, which is modesty and compassion and resilience and hope. at our luncheon today, i was treated to the best of laos culture and cuisine. beer lao, butany i will try some later, maybe this evening. and in all of you here today we see the diversity that is the strength of this nation. you have a tapestry of proud ethnic groups and indigenous peoples. you are truly a people of the heart and i thank you for welcoming m

[applause] [applause] for the exploration of faith through this study of ancient manuscripts and otherolarly work about the contemporary search for knowledge and meaning. [applause] [applause] the 2015 national humanities metal for transforming the alliance to provide examples for others. >> the 2015 national peabody's metal for reminding to me it the center of the medical enterprises. to embody the diversity from the efforts rumpus -- of the science the renderings of human drama. [applause] isabel. [applause] estimates the 2015 national team manatee's metal for championing the stories of the combination of human narrative with those epic migration of a vast impact on each individual life. [applause] >> please give them a big round of applause once again we think that for their extraordinary contributions and all the work they will be doing in the future. and i think that plague has the coolest alpha. [laughter] i am glad you're all a good friend of mine and i do think that bill brooks would set us off. [applause] historic leet a different affair pet somehow in the beginning it was thr