Stories
- Long read
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.
- Article
Shakespeare and the four humours
Blood. Phlegm. Black bile. Yellow bile. The theory of the four humours informed many of Shakespeare's best-known characters, including the phlegmatic Falstaff.
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The cures and demons of sleep paralysis
Discover the murky past of sleep paralysis, the terrifying disorder once associated with demonic possession
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Fake news and the flu
Discover how history shows that fake news could play a deadly role – by generating potentially lethal misinformation during a future pandemic.
Catalogue
- Books
Music and trance : a theory of the relations between music and possession / Gilbert Rouget ; translation from the French revised by Brunhilde Biebuyck in collaboration with the author.
Rouget, Gilbert.Date: 1985- E-books
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Apollo's lyre : Greek music and music theory in antiquity and the Middle Ages / Thomas J. Mathiesen.
Mathiesen, Thomas J.Date: c1999- E-books
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Unplayed melodies : Javanese gamelan and the genesis of music theory / Marc Perlman.
Perlman, Marc.Date: c2004- E-books
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Classical form : a theory of formal functions for the instrumental music of Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven / William E. Caplin.
Caplin, William Earl, 1948-Date: 1998- E-books
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Analyzing jazz : a Schenkerian approach / Steve Larson.
Larson, Steve, 1955-Date: c2009