The Marginalium

Reckoning with a Chinese Guidonian Hand

Addi Liu January 28, 2025

One of the global traces left behind by the Portuguese Jesuit missionary Tomás Pereira (1645–1708) in late seventeenth-century Beijing is

Sheryl Chow March 22, 2022

In 1672, on the twelfth day of the eighth month of the eleventh year of the Kangxi reign (r. 1662–1722),

Sheryl Chow March 22, 2022

[…] Continuation of Part I […] In the last blog post, we have seen that officials who failed to obtain

Callum Blackmore January 20, 2022

The Querelle des Bouffons[1] was a music-theoretical dispute that took place in France between 1752 and 1754. The dispute was,

Michael Weinstein-Reiman October 29, 2016

Michael Weinstein-Reiman For this post, I turn to an unlikely protagonist, self-proclaimed bad musician Denis Diderot, polymath of the French

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