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Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Penguin (Non-Classics)
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : UCSC:32106017938454
Author : Maxwell Steer
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Music
ISBN : 3718659301
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : John Zorn
Publisher : Arcana (Hip Road)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Music
ISBN : 0978833791
"Mysticism, magic and alchemy all come into play in the creative process. For centuries musicians have tapped into things spiritual, embracing ritual, spell, incantation and prayer deeply into their life and work. Although the connection of music to mysticism has been consistent, well documented and productive, it is still shrouded in mystery and largely misunderstood. For this special edition, Aracana focuses on the nexus of mysticism and spirituality in the magical act of making music. Far from an historical overview or cold musicologist's study, these essays illuminate a fascinating and elusive subject via the eloquent voices of today's most distinguished modern practitioners and greatest adult thinkers, providing insights into the esoteric traditions and mysteries involved in the composition and performance of the most mystical of all arts."--Book cover.
Author : Gary Tomlinson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0226807924
Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic "harmony of the celestial spheres" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiography—issues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past —Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion. "A scholarly step toward a goal that many composers have aimed for: to rescue the idea of New Age Music—that music can promote spiritual well-being—from the New Ageists who have reduced it to a level of sonic wallpaper."—Kyle Gann, Village Voice "An exemplary piece of musical and intellectual history, of interest to all students of the Renaissance as well as musicologists. . . . The author deserves congratulations for introducing this new approach to the study of Renaissance music."—Peter Burke, NOTES "Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others examines the 'otherness' of magical cosmology. . . . [A] passionate, eloquently melancholy, and important book."—Anne Lake Prescott, Studies in English Literature
Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987-11-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781620550953
Joscelyn Godwin explores music's effects on matter, living things, and human behavior. Turning to metaphysical accounts of the higher worlds and theories of celestial harmony, the author follows the path of musical inspiration on its descent to Earth, illuminating the archetypal currents that lie beneath Western musical history.
Author : Arthur Versluis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0742558363
Provides overview, from antiquity onwards, on various Western religious esoteric movements. This book includes topics such as: alchemy, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Rosicrucianism, Theosophy and more.
Author : Erik Davis
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-17
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781583949306
TechGnosis is a cult classic of media studies that straddles the line between academic discourse and popular culture; it appeals to both those secular and spiritual, to fans of cyberpunk and hacker literature and culture as much as new-thought adherents and spiritual seekers How does our fascination with technology intersect with the religious imagination? In TechGnosis—a cult classic now updated and reissued with a new afterword—Erik Davis argues that while the realms of the digital and the spiritual may seem worlds apart, esoteric and religious impulses have in fact always permeated (and sometimes inspired) technological communication. Davis uncovers startling connections between such seemingly disparate topics as electricity and alchemy; online roleplaying games and religious and occult practices; virtual reality and gnostic mythology; programming languages and Kabbalah. The final chapters address the apocalyptic dreams that haunt technology, providing vital historical context as well as new ways to think about a future defined by the mutant intermingling of mind and machine, nightmare and fantasy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 371865931X
Author : Ray T. Malbrough
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Hoodoo (Cult)
ISBN : 0738703508
Conjuring money and attracting love, reversing hexes and stopping slander-it's all in a day's work for the Hoodoo practitioner. This is true American folk magic, colorful and powerful, yet little-known outside of the bayous and backwoods of Louisiana. Let Ray Malbrough take you deep inside the Hoodoo mysteries. You'll learn the secrets of root working and magical baths, the Head Pot and the Medium's necklace. You'll discover how to divine the future with playing cards and cowrie shells, and how to work with the spirits of the dead. Step inside a world of magic and intrigue you never knew existed-enter the hidden world of the Hoodoo.
Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Music
ISBN : STANFORD:36105042624283
Author : R. Ziegler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137006615
An interdisciplinary study of the supernatural and the occult in fin-de-siècle France (1870-1914), the present volume examines the explosion of interest in devil-worship, magic and mysticism both from an historical perspective and through analysis of key literary works of the period.
Author : Liora Bresler
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1568 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-09-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781402030529
Providing a distillation of knowledge in the various disciplines of arts education (dance, drama, music, literature and poetry and visual arts), this essential handbook synthesizes existing research literature, reflects on the past, and contributes to shaping the future of the respective and integrated disciplines of arts education. While research can at times seem distant from practice, the Handbook aims to maintain connection with the live practice of art and of education, capturing the vibrancy and best thinking in the field of theory and practice. The Handbook is organized into 13 sections, each focusing on a major area or issue in arts education research.
Author : Caroline Rae
Publisher : Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0754652238
This is the first book to explore the manifestation of myth, magic and mysticism in music since 1920 against a background of the emergent literary movement that has become known as magic realism. The problematic and much debated term, magic realism, has been used in the context of literary and visual arts criticism, as well as that of contemporary cinema, but its relationship to the field of musical composition has been largely overlooked. Caroline Rae demonstrates how writers and composers shared a fascination for ancient mythologies, legend, ritual, Africanism and diverse non-Western traditions, as well as a predilection for the exploration of dislocated time and memory. Their common aim was to revitalise existing forms of expression and thereby to seek creative and spiritual renewal. Rae examines the diverse and often esoteric exoticisms that abounded in Paris particularly during the inter-war years and considers the extent to which the French capital represented a crucible from which the parallel preoccupations of magic realist writers and their compositional contemporaries emerged. The work of Borges, Asturias, Paz, Carpentier, Garciacute;a Maacute;rquez and others is considered in this French context, alongside connections with the composers Varegrave;se, Jolivet, Millaud and Villa Lobos. The book also examines those composers such as Messiaen, Berio and Ohana, who had little or no direct contact with magic realist writers but whose music reveals concerns with similar themes. The Spanish-speaking eacute;migreacute;s fed the ever growing French appetite for the exotic and thirst to absorb the eclectic. This French-Latin American axis pivoted on shared paranoia of Western decline and the quest for creative spiritual renewal through visions and fantasies of enchanted places. The existing French idea of the 'forecirc;t feacute;erique' can be considered alongside the mystical, tropical forest of the magic realists. Rae therefore elaborates a new and engaging interpretation of the creative preoccupations of leading French and Latin American composers of the twentieth century.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8183861628
Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781609259143
The seven vowels which we use every day in speech depend on the phenomenon of harmonics which is at the very basis of music. When we hear vowels we are hearing the laws of harmony which are ultimately the laws of number that are said to govern the universe. This is the first book on the subject to appear in English and brings together the fields of linguistics harmony, mythology, history of religions, and occult philosophy. Scholarly, yet practical, this book gives instructions for discovering one's own healing, centering, and uplifting tones.
