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Explorations in music and esotericism /
"Scholars explore from many fresh angles the interweavings of two of the richest strands of human culture-music and esotericism-with examples from the medieval period to the modern age. Music and esotericism are two responses to the intuition that the world holds hidden order, beauty, and power...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2023.
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| Colección: | Eastman studies in music ;
192. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Explorations in Music and Esotericism
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. Esotericism as a Form of Thought
- 1 The Hermaphroditic Nature of the mi-fa Complex
- 2 Athanasius Kircher and the Nature of Ecstatic Listening
- 3 Claude Bragdon's Images of the Seven Degrees of the Scale
- 4 Music Analysis as Esoteric Activity: Victor Zuckerkandl at Eranos
- Part Two. Esotericism as the Keeping and Revealing of Secrets
- 5 Concealment Revealed Sound and Symbol in Ockeghem's Missi Quinti toni and Missa Prolationum
- 6 Air and Eros. Musician as Demiurge in Renaissance Magic
- 7 "De septenario illo et sacro numero" The Divine Septenarius in Pleiades musicae
- 8 The Hoard and the Grail: A Wagnerian Conspiracy in Five Parts
- Part Three. Esotericism as an Identity
- 9 Tommaso Campanella, the Barberini Palace, and the Soul's Perception of Music
- 10 Sonic Symbolism: Matthew Cooke's Music for the Scottish Rite Craft Degrees
- 11 New American Eden: Katherine Tingley in Lomaland
- 12 Theosophy and the Esoteric Roots of Sun Ra's Afrofuturism
- 13 "Im Himmel und auf Erden": Geometry, Alchemy, and Rosicrucian Symbol in Buxtehude
- 14 (In)Audible Sound and Spiritualist Acoustemologies
- 15 As Above, So Below: Magic Squares and Immutable Laws of Nature in Webern's Opus 24
- 16 The Osiris-Light in Nino Rota's Music
- Contributors
- Index