Saturnium : conte musical et photographique

Invention de l'hystérie. Charcot et l'iconographie photographique de la Salpêtrière

Great) visited him in Delft. Leeuwenhoek is also set apart, we are told, by his status as "an amateur" among intellectuals. Van Bronwijk writes, "Antoni, the amateur, probably had better microscopes" (p. 123) than Swammerdam, the medical man. Again, "Leeuwenhoek comes forward as one of the best among amateurs" (p. 125), and is referred to on the last page of the book (p. 209) as "a self-taught ...

Paolo Conte: Italian ‘Arthouse Exotic’

Paolo Conte is the most internationally successful of the Italian singer-songwriters who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. He is also among the most idiosyncratic, eclectic and unusual exponents of what Franco Fabbri has defined as the canzone d’autore (author’s song). Nonetheless he remains a rather arcane, cult figure in the Anglophone world – an example of what Simon Frith has called ‘the unpo...

le « bien et le mal » dans les mille et une nuits à travers le conte du portefaix et des trois dames

The musical language Elements of Persian musical language: modes, rhythm and syntax

In treating the subject of musical language, a Persian musician would be intrinsically drawn to the structural similarities between the Persian music and language. Indeed Persian music and language are extremely related in their metrics, intonations and structural phrases (syntax). Although we will draw upon this relationship, our aim in this article is to present “music as a language,” c...

Reply to Padulo et al.: Jymmin, an easy-to-implement musical workout approach.

Padulo et al. (1) comment on our recent PNAS article (2). Here, we give a response to each of their points and rebut each point. Their major concern seems to be that the musical feedback technology we used is too complex to allow for replication by other laboratories. We do not agree with Padulo et al.; rather, we are convinced that this paradigm, which has since also been used to examine other...