Music and esotericism
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Music and esotericism
（Aries book series, v. 9）
Brill, 2010
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"This volume developed out of the conference "Music and esotericism : art and science of sounds facing the occult knowledge", organized at the Academia Belgica in Rome (14-18 April 2008)"--Introd
Includes bibliographical references and index
English (chiefly). some articles in French or Italian, with English summaries
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This book analyzes the relationships that exist between esotericism and music from Antiquity to the 20th century, investigating ways in which magic, astrology, alchemy, divination, and cabbala interact with music.
Ce livre offre un panorama des relations entre l'esoterisme et la musique de l'Antiquite au 20eme siecle et montre comment la magie, l'astrologie, l'alchimie, la divination et la cabale interagissent avec l'art et la science des sons.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Laurence Wuidar
PART ONE
EARLY MODERN OCCULT KNOWLEDGE AND MUSIC
Music and Magnetism, from Abu Ma'shar to Kircher
Charles Burnett
Le medecin et les sons : Musique et magie dans Le Livre des eschez amoureux moralises d'Evrart de Conty
Amandine Mussou
Prophecy, Harmony, and the Alchemical Transformation of the Soul: The Key to Lasso's Chromatic Sibyls
Marjorie A. Roth
Dwelling in Darkness: Dowland's Dark Songs as Hermetic Pessimist Gnosis, and Could this be 'Evidence' of the Esoteric 'School of Night'?
Anthony Rooley
Orpheus "Recured": The Healing Art of Thomas Campion
Barbara Kennedy
Giovambattista della Porta e l'efficacia terapeutica della musica
Concetta Pennuto
Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) e la musica
Marta Moiso
Representation esoterique et pensee scientifique. Le cas de la vibration par sympathie chez les savants et theoriciens de la premiere moitie du 17e siecle
Brigitte Van Wymeersch
Musical Theory and Astrological Foundations in Kepler: The Making of the New Aspects
David Juste
PHILOSOPHICAL INTERMEZZO
Apercu sur le role de l'harmonie musicale dans l'oeuvre de Proclus
Mael Mathieu and Daniel Cohen
Quelques philosophes du XIXe siecle et la musique comme esoterisme moderne
Jacques Amblard
PART TWO
NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSICAL ESOTERICISM
The Mysteries of Sound in H. P. Blavatsky's 'Esoteric Instructions'
Tim Rudbog
Evoking the Mystical: The Esoteric Legacy of Ferruccio Busoni
Judith Crispin
Musica pietrificata, sculture sonore: Aleksandr Skrjabin tra estasi e teosofia
Barbara Aniello
The Unspeakable and the Law: Esotericism in Anton Webern and the Second Viennese School
Wouter J. Hanegraaff
Music, Magic and Postmodern Historical Metafiction: Helmuth Krausser's Melodien (1993)
Gyoergy E. Szoenyi
Index
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