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Episode 177: Strings (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2021-08-16 07:00:05 +0000 UTCOne of the things that has united humans across cultures and languages is music. For as long as we can remember, we have filled our lives with new musical backdrops. And at the center of that world are the people who write and perform it all—as well as the stories about where their powerful gifts come from.
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Further Reading
- “A Musical Message Discovered In Plato's Works,” NPR, July 2010, https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=128288987.
- Andreas Otte & Harald Kijewski, “Nicolò Paganini’s hair lock for Signora Chatterton - morphological hair investigations using digital light microscopy,” Arch Kriminol (Nov 2016), 238 (5-6): 153-172, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29465865.
- Angus Archives, “Helen Guthrie - A Wicked Woman, Forfar 1663,” Scottish Archive Network, n.d., https://www.scan.org.uk/exhibitions/guthrie.htm.
- Bruce Michael Conforth, Ph.D., “Ike Zimmerman: The X in Robert Johnson’s Crossroads,” University of Michigan, https://www.academia.edu/2408177/_Ike_Zimmerman_The_X_in_Robert_Johnson_s_Crossroads_Living_Blues_2008.
- Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, A historical account of the belief in witchcraft in Scotland (London: Hamilton, Adams & co., 1884), orig. pub’d 1819, pp. 268, https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000582176.
- Debra Devi, The Language of the Blues from Alcorub to Zuzu (Jersey City: True Nature Books, 2006).
- Frank Almond, “Giuseppe Tartini,” A Violin’s Life, 2013, https://aviolinslife.org/tartinilipinski/.
- George Dubourg, The Violin: Some Account of that Leading Instrument and Its Most Eminent Professors, from Its Earliest Date to the Present Time, with Hints to Amateurs, Anecdotes, Etc (London: Robert Cocks and co., 1852), pp. 410, https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Violin/plbpBzcRYGcC?hl=en&gbpv=0.
- George Dunea, MD, “Nicolo Paganini - a case of mercury poisoning?,” Hektoen International: A Journal of Medical Humanities, Fall 2018, https://hekint.org/2018/11/15/nicolo-paganini-a-case-of-mercury-poisoning.
- George Ritchie Kinloch, Reliquiae Antiquae Scoticae: Illustrative of Civil and Ecclesiastical Affairs (Oxford University, 1848), pp. 164, https://www.google.com/books/edition/Reliquiae_Antiquae_Scoticae/QUEIAAAAQAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0.
- George Sinclair, Satans invisible world discovered (T. G. Stevenson, Edinburgh), orig. pub’d 1685; reprinted 1871, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044036969079&view=1up&seq=13.
- Harald Kijewski, Jens Beck, and Ulrich Reus, “Illness and death of the violin virtuoso Nicolò Paganini--interpretation based on new hair investigations,” Arch Kriminol (Jan-Feb 2012), 229 (1-2): 11-24, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22448466.
- Harold C. Schonberg, The Lives of the Great Composers (W.W. Norton, 1997), orig. pub’d 1970, pp. 653.
- Harvey B. Gaul, “Music and Devil-Worship,” The Musical Quarterly, vol. 11, no. 2, (April 1925), pp. 192-195.
- Herbert Halpert, “The Devil and the Fiddle,” Hoosier Folklore Bulletin (Dec. 1943), vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 39-43.
- J. G. O’Shea, “The death of Paganini,” Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of London vol. 22, no. 2, 1988, p. 104, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379405/?page=1.
- J. G. O’Shea, “Was Paganini poisoned with mercury?,” Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, vol. 81, (Sage Publishing, U.K.) October 1988, pp. 594-7.
- Jeff Wallenfeldt, “Robert Johnson,” Britannica, updated 14 February 2019, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Johnson-American-musician.
- John Stuart, ed., The Miscellany of the Spalding Club (Aberdeen, Printed for the Club, 1841-52).
- Joseph Glanvill & Henry More, Saducismus triumphatus, or, Full and plain evidence concerning witches and apparitions: in two parts : the first treating of their possibility, the second of their real existence (London, 1681), pp. 328.
- Maddy Shaw Roberts, “Niccolò Paganini was such a gifted violinist, people thought he sold his soul to the devil,” Classic FM, 1 February 2019, https://www.classicfm.com/composers/paganini/niccolo-gifted-violinist-deal-with-devil.
- Margaret Alice Murray, The Witch-cult in Western Europe: A Study in Anthropology (Project Gutenberg, 2007), orig. pub’d Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1921.
- Pierre de Lancre, On the Inconstancy of Witches 1612 (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006), pp. 587.
- Reggie Ugwu, “Overlooked No More: Robert Johnson, Bluesman Whose Life Was a Riddle,” New York Times, 25 September 2019, https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/25/obituaries/robert-johnson-overlooked.html.
- Rick Beyer, The Greatest Music Stories Never Told: 100 Tales from Music History to Astonish, Bewilder, and Stupefy (HarperCollins, 7 June 2011), pp. 224.
- Robert Pitcairn, Criminal trials in Scotland, from A.D. M.CCCC.LXXXVIII to A.D. M.DC.XXIV, embracing the entire reigns of James IV. and V., Mary Queen of Scots and James VI (Edinburgh: Bannatyne Club, 1833), 3 vols., https://digital.nls.uk/publications-by-scottish-clubs/archive/83267143.
- Robin Stowell, “Henry Wieniawski: the true successor of Nicolò Paganini? A comparative assessment of the two virtuosos with particular reference to their caprices,” in Playing practice of stringed instruments in Romanticism, Report of the symposium in Bern, 18-19 November 2006.
- Stephen Samuel Stratton, Nicolo Paganini: His Life and Work (Project Gutenberg, 2012), orig. pub’d London: E. Shore & co., 1907, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/39571/39571-h/39571-h.htm.
- Steve LaVere, liner notes, Robert Johnson - The Complete Recordings: Columbia Records, 1990.
- Susan Murphree Wallace, B.M., M.M., “The Devil’s Trill Sonata, Tartini and his Teachings,” University of Texas at Austin (May 2003), pp. 127.
- The Spottiswoode miscellany: a collection of original papers and tracts, illustrative chiefly of the civil and ecclesiastical history of Scotland (Edinburgh: Spottiswoode Society, 1844-45), vol. ii, pp. 536.
Comments
Jay Eilers
Excellent episode. Thank you.
