UID:
almafu_9961358417002883
Format:
1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-80543-050-5
Series Statement:
Eastman studies in music ; 192
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 15 Dec 2023).
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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.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-64825-065-3
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781805430506
