Stories
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Defying deafness through music
Did you know that Beethoven’s profession meant he was ashamed to admit to being deaf? Find out how similar prejudices persist today and how our writer is helping to break them down.
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Dementia playlists and musical memory
Listening to the right music can provide both solace and pleasure for someone with dementia, helping them to reconnect with the world around them. Grace Meadows makes the case for more music in dementia care.
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Disabled musicians and the fight to perform
Music might be the universal language, but unfortunately it doesn’t come with universal access. London-based artist Miss Jacqui discusses the barriers to her career with Jamie Hale.
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Rehab centres and the ‘cure’ for addiction
Guy Stagg takes us on a brief history of rehab centres and their approaches to addiction and recovery.
Catalogue
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Musical and other sound instruments of the South American Indians : a comparative ethnographical study / by Karl Gustav Izikowitz.
Izikowitz, Karl Gustav, 1903-1984.Date: 1935- Books
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Musical phænomena, founded on unanswerable facts; and a proof that musical instruments have been hitherto fabricated on the most uncertain, therefore the most improper materials. This work will extend to several numbers. No.I. contains an account of the aiuton, and the cromatic trumpets and the french horns, capable of the fine tune and regular harmony in all the keys in use, minor as well as major.
Clagget, Charles, 1740?-1820.Date: MDCCXCIII [1793]- Books
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Musica getutscht : a treatise on musical instruments (1511) / by Sebastian Virdung ; translated and edited by Beth Bullard.
Virdung, Sebastian, 1465?-Date: [1993], ©1993
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Ancient Greek and Roman wind and string instruments. Engraving by J. Pass, 1818.
Date: 1818Reference: 33735i
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People playing ancient musical instruments. Etching.
Date: Jan. 1st. 1803Reference: 33736i