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Disabled musicians and the fight to perform
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
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Chemical highs and psychedelic research
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The ‘epileptic’ in art and science
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Instruction élémentaire sur les moyens de calculer les intervalles musicaux : en prenant, pour unités ou termes de comparaison, soit l'octave, soit le douzième d'octave, et en se servant de tables qui rendent ce calcul extrêmement prompt et facile. Formules analytiques, pour calculer logarithme acoustique d'un nombre donné, et réciproquement ; progessions harmoniques ; autres formules relative à l'acoustique musicale, avec des applications aux instruments de musique ; détermination du son fixe, etc. / Par M. Le Bon de Prony.
Prony, R. (Riche), 1755-1839.Date: 1832- Books
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Harmonics, or the philosophy of musical sounds. By Robert Smith, D. D, F. R. S, And Master of Trinity College In the University of Cambridge.
Smith, Robert, 1689-1768.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
Music, sound, and the laboratory from 1750-1980 / edited by Alexandra Hui, Julia Kursell, and Myles W. Jackson.
Date: 2013- Books
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Über die Grenzen der Tonwahrnehmung / von W. Preyer.
Date: 1876- Books
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Excellent compendium of musick / Renatus Des-Cartes. With necessary and judicious animadversions thereupon. By a person of honour.
Descartes, René, 1596-1650.Date: 1653