Stories by tintinnabula

Organ Grinding: When the Audience Revolted at Carnegie Hall

Pigeon Whistles: From Utilitarian to Orchestral

With Musical Cryptography, Composers Can Hide Messages in Their Melodies

Where to Score: Classified Ads from Haight-Ashbury

The Music of the Beatles (1968)

Minisode 6: Tampopo and the History of Ramen

The voices of ancient women

Boston’s most radical TV show blew minds in 1967

A few steps and mis-steps in the early years of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

Le Corbusier’s Algerian Fantasy: Blocking the Casbah

Opposite of modern

Debussy: the musical genius who erupted out of nowhere

Against Popular Culture

‘Your foes look for you’: revealing a secret message in a piece of music

On a small Greek island, practitioners of an ancient whistling language

Josef Frank’s Modernist Vision: 'Accidentism'

Keeping the Art of Silent Film Music Alive

Bryan Ferry on how Roxy Music invented art pop: 'We were game for anything'

Mark E Smith, lead singer with the Fall, dies aged 60

Howl: a nostalgic homage to the brief, hazy era of “pure” London punk

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