The iconological analysis of Crespi’s paintings for Grand Prince Ferdinando de’Medici reveals shared ideas rooted in Seneca’s philosophy, basis their taste genre and pastoral scenes. Crespi was a leading figure the prince’s artistic view, according to which arts sciences guide wisdom virtue. Their appreciation bizarre iconographies Venetian style painting is clarified by inspired Seneca on inge...

Musical obsessions are rare in both clinical practice and literature. A case is presented of a musical obsession which had the additional unique characteristics of acute onset, marked severity, and occurrence as an isolated symptom.

Taste perception results from integrating all the senses. In case of audition, research shows that people can associate certain auditory parameters (e.g., pitch) with basic tastes. Likewise, surrounding sonic environment noise, music) may influence individuals’ evaluation taste attributes foods and drinks. This paper presents first pre-registered systematic examination literature on crossmodal ...

When discussing temperaments, one cannot avoid being a bit technical. However, I have also tried to be practical by discussing temperaments that can be useful to modern keyboardists, and by stressing their important acoustical properties (i.e. how they sound) rather then getting into some complex theories. No special skills in mathematics are required of the reader (footnotes will be used to co...

While modern musicology has seen the frequent exploration of issues of historiography and canonicity, biography itself has largely eluded critical investigation until much more recently. The discipline has lately challenged the aesthetic of musical canon, for many decades a largely uncontested phenomenon, as well as that of the Great Composer. Recent scholarship has similarly addressed the matt...

After vision, the next most studied perceptual modality in neuropsychology is audition. Just as there is a primary visual area, there is also a primary auditory cortical area, in the temporal lobe, and damage to this region causes cortical deafness. This disorder is rare, presumably because auditory information from each ear is distributed to both hemispheres, and damage to both temporal lobes ...

the musical symbol is one way of expression among many other ways. it doesn`t directly correspond with meaning or reality. rather, it provides images that are representative of the original. however, symbols goes beyond this and provide deep significant symbolic meanings and visions. mystical poetry has a complex intellectual structure, particularly in arabic and persian literature. hence, musi...