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The occult arts of music : an esoteric survey from Pythagoras to pop culture / David Huckvale.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3800 .H77 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huckvale, David, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music and occultism.
- Mysticism in music.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Physical Description:
- v, 217 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2013]
- Summary:
- "Music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and the divine. This wide-ranging survey explores how such film music works and uncovers its origins in Pythagorean and Platonic ideas about the divine order of the universe and its essentially numerical/musical nature"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The music of the spheres
- Masonic music
- The birth of the demonic
- Wagner's racial mysticism and Schoenberg's numerical superstition
- Synesthesia
- Theosophy
- Phantoms at the opera
- Dancing with death
- Fairy music
- Satan rocks : popular music and the occult.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786473243
- 078647324X
- OCLC:
- 817595740
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