Stories by tintinnabula

Instructions for reading aloud in the Gutenberg Bible

W.E.B. Du Bois on the beauty of sorrow songs (1903)

Rossini’s sins

Knives that can carry a tune

The Prehistory of Music

The Perfectionist

Ain‘t That a Shame: Fats Domino

Berkeley Uses Optical Scanning to Recover Indigenous Voices from Wax Cylinders

The Renaissance Precursor of Rap Battles and Flow

Reflections of a Lifelong Metalhead

The Emperor’s New Music: The high stakes of popular music in ancient China

On St. Augustine's Confessions

How Ludwig II’s love for Wagner inspired the world’s greatest work of fan art

My brilliant and troubled friend Lou Reed

The Curses: Part I

Secret Music: On Duke Ellington’s the Queen’s Suite

Modernism, Heal Thyself

Why is linguistics such a magnet for dilettantes and crackpots?

Five Magnificent Years: On Otis Redding

The source of Mozart’s inspiration - a great musical whodunnit

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