The geriatric canon

The Canon Score Language

Canon is both a notation for musical scores and a programming language. Canon offers a combination of declarative style and a powerful abstraction capability which allows a very high-level notation for sequences of musical events and structures. Transformations are operators that can adjust common parameters such as loudness or duration. Transformations can be nested and time-varying, and their...

The Canon - 6

Editorial note. Each A&M issue will contain (in no particular sequence) a reappraisal of a past text of what may be considered (unfashionably) canonical, classical or at least of continuing interest in medical anthropology or cultural psychiatry. The sixth is by Hora-cio Fabrega and Daniel Silver. Piggy-backed onto the existing Harvard University Chiapas Project in SouthWestern Mexico, Fabrega ...

Apuleius and the Classical Canon

I begin with the question, “Is Apuleius a canonical author?” Any answer that one might give would of course raise other questions; and in the context of this volume, the most important of these would be whether Apuleius’ African origin enters into it. But before confronting that question, I have to address a few others that are more basic. For one can hardly get started on this problem until as...

The Canon of the Old Testament

What is meant by the “Canon of the Old Testament”? The word, “canon” itself is derived from the Greek, and in that language originally meant a staff or straight rod. In pre-Christian Greek it also bore the connotation “rule,” or “standard,” and in this sense also is used in the New Testament (cf. II Cor. 10:13, 15, 16; Gal. 6:16). Clement of Rome uses it of a rule possessing authority (I:7:2) a...

Canon-log Transfer Characteristic