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Explorations in music and esotericism / edited by Marjorie Roth and Leonard George.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Eastman studies in music ; 192.
- Eastman studies in music ; 192
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music and occultism.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Music.
- Mysticism in music.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2023.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Explorations in music and esotericism
- ISBN:
- 9781805430506
- 1805430505
- Publisher Number:
- 99994718339
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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