On Celestial Music

Author : Rick Moody
Publisher : Back Bay Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780316191883

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On Celestial Music by Rick Moody Pdf

Rick Moody has been writing about music as long as he has been writing, and this book provides an ample selection from that output. His anatomy of the word cool reminds us that, in the postwar 40s, it was infused with the feeling of jazz music but is now merely a synonym for neat. "On Celestial Music," which was included in Best American Essays, 2008, begins with a lament for the loss in recent music of the vulnerability expressed by Otis Redding's masterpiece, "Try a Little Tenderness;" moves on to Moody's infatuation with the ecstatic music of the Velvet Underground; and ends with an appreciation of Arvo Part and Purcell, close as they are to nature, "the music of the spheres." Contemporary groups covered include Magnetic Fields (their love songs), Wilco (the band's and Jeff Tweedy's evolution), Danielson Famile (an evangelical rock band), The Pogues (Shane McGowan's problems with addiction), The Lounge Lizards (John Lurie's brilliance), and Meredith Monk, who once recorded a song inspired by Rick Moody's story "Boys." Always both incisive and personable, these pieces inspire us to dive as deeply into the music that enhances our lives as Moody has done -- and introduces us to wonderful sounds we may not know.

Author : Wilfrid Mellers
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0851158447

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Celestial Music? by Wilfrid Mellers Pdf

Articles on masterpieces of European religious music, from the middle ages to Stravinsky and Tavener. The late Wilfrid Mellers, who occupies a special place among music critics, described himself as a non-believer; but his preference for music that "displays a sense of the numinous" (in his words) will strike a chord with many wholisten to religious music nowadays, and who share his view that music that confronts first and last things is likely to offer more than music that evades them. The essays form five groups, which together offer a survey of religious music from around the first millennium to the beginning of the second, in the context of the difficult issues of what religious music is, and, for good measure, what is religion? The parts are: The Ages of Christian Faith; The Re-birth of a Re-birth: From Renaissance to High Baroque; From Enlightenment to Doubt; From "the Death of God" to "the Unanswered Question"; and The Ancient Law and the Modern Mind. Musical discussion, with copious examples, is conducted throughout the book in a context that is also religious - and indeed philosophical, social, and political, with the open-endedness that such an approach demands in the presentation of ideas aboutmusic's most fundamental nature and purposes. COMPOSERS: Hildegard of Bingen; Perotin; Machaut; Dunstable, Dufay; William Corniyshes father and son; Tallis; Byrd; Monteverdi; Schutz; J.S. Bach; Couperin; Handel; Haydn;Mozart; Beethoven; Schubert; Bruckner; Berlioz, Faure; Verdi, Brahms; Elgar, Delius; Holst, Vaughan Williams, Howells; Britten; Janacek; Messiaen, Poulenc; Rachmaninov; Stravinsky; Part, Tavener, Gorecki, Macmillan, Finnissy; Copland.

Author : Charles Fulcher,L. Parrott,David Roy Smith
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1534661255

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The Celestial Music by Charles Fulcher,L. Parrott,David Roy Smith Pdf

The Third Edition is published on the 50th Anniversary of the author meeting Sant Kirpal Singh Ji Maharaj. The author wrote "It would be a joy to me, if another edition of the work could materialize.. the need is so great! The author looks at Sant Mat or the Path of the Masters - Surat Shabd Yoga from a Christian prospective including many bible quotes. The book is too important to go out of print!

Author : Marc Lachièze-Rey,Jean-Pierre Luminet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2001-07-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521800404

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Celestial Treasury by Marc Lachièze-Rey,Jean-Pierre Luminet Pdf

Throughout history, the mysterious dark skies above us have inspired our imaginations in countless ways, influencing our endeavours in science and philosophy, religion, literature and art. Heavenly Treasures is a truly beautiful book showing the richness of astronomical theories and illustrations in Western civilization through the ages, exploring their evolution, and comparing ancient and modern throughout. From Greek verse, mediaeval manuscripts and Victorian poetry to spacecraft photographs and computer-generated star charts, the unprecedented wealth of these portrayals is quite breathtaking.

Author : Swami Rama
Publisher : Himalayan Institute Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Sikhism
ISBN : 0893891037

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Celestial Song/Gobind Geet by Swami Rama Pdf

Author : Kevin Parks
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Copyright
ISBN : 1614386714

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Music & Copyright in America by Kevin Parks Pdf

Starting with history of music copyright from its origins to the present, this in-depth, intriguing, and beautifully written book explores the music industry through a legal lens. Author Kevin Parks presents a practical overview of music rights and licensing, while at the same time providing perspective, context, and clarity amidst the chaos and ch

Author : Annalee Skarin
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781789123395

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The Celestial Song of Creation by Annalee Skarin Pdf

“Here is a record of glory, revealing the method of achieving the heights, the way to unfold understanding of the Almighty Truths of God. “If you would awaken your soul to the divine symphony of the Universe, follow the way of ‘overcoming,’ the Way Christ trod. The record of His Path, the eternal, inner truths of power and fulfillment are now open, the sacred, inner knowledge that has lain dormant and in the depths of your being. “Ludwig Van Beethoven, who had become deaf, humbly acknowledged that his Symphony No. 9 came to him directly from God, and that he merely transcribed it. “What is man’s soul? It is his true being, where God has placed a seed of Himself, and this seed contains the perfect answers to one’s outside problems and inner questioning. It is the source of all inspiration and contains the power of all achievement and happiness. The soul is the innermost being of man himself. “To contact the soul, one learns ‘to be still!’ This divine search fulfills man’s conquest of himself as he begins to live God’s laws. As one learns ‘to love God with all his heart, all his soul, all his mind, and all his strength,’ he begins to find the joy and the meaning of existence. The search is one that no man can make for another. It is a quest which each individual must undertake for himself. It is each individual’s own responsibility.”—Annalee Skarin

Author : Jamie James
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1995-06
Category : Music
ISBN : 0387944745

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The Music of the Spheres by Jamie James Pdf

For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed the universe was a stately; ordered mechanism - mathematical and musical. The smooth operation of the cosmos created a divine harmony (perfect, spiritual, eternal) which composers sought to capture and express. With The Music of the Spheres, readers will see how this scientific philosophy emerged, how it was shattered by changing views of the universe and the rise of Romanticism, and to what extent (if at all) it survives today. From Pythagoras to Newton, Bach to Beethoven, and on into the twentieth century, it is a spellbinding examination of the interwoven fates of science and music throughout history.

Author : Robert L. Kendrick
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1996-05-23
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780191584503

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Celestial Sirens by Robert L. Kendrick Pdf

This study investigates an almost unknown musical culture: that of cloistered nuns in one of the major cities of early modern Europe. These women were the most famous musicians of Milan, and the music composed for them opens up a hitherto unstudied musical repertory, which allows insight into the symbolic world of the city. Even more importantly, the music actually composed by four such nuns, Claudia Scossa, Claudia Rusca, Chiara Margarita Cozzollani, and Rosa Giacinta Badalla - reveals the musical expression of women's devotional life. The two centuries' worth of battles over nuns' singing of polyphony, studies here for the first time on the basis of massive archival documentation, also suggest that the implementation of reform in the major centre of post-Tridentine Catholic renewal was far more varied; incomplete, subject to local political pressure and individual interpretation, and short-lived than any religious historian has ever suggested. Other factors that marked nuns' musical lives and creative output - liturgical traditions of the religious orders, the problems of performance practice attendant upon all-female singing ensembles - are here addressed for the first time in the musicological literature.

Author : Arturo Cuscó
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798985844207

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Celestial Music: Mind, Sentience & Divine Tales by Arturo Cuscó Pdf

If we follow gravity to where it takes us, we are led directly into the maul of a black hole! If we follow music, then we are led to the ideal placement of a habitable planet, the true heart of the cosmos, where astrals and life together sing, and sentience thrives! (+) Illustrated with the visionary, surreal art of Fernando Chamarelli. Featuring the sacred geometry art of Mauricio Brasilli and the masterful graphic designs of Fernando D'Antonio. (+) Has Arturo Cuscó found the best proof there is to suggest that love, music and consciousness are quintessential to the formation of the universe? Have we discovered what Pythagoras, Ptolemy and Kepler sought after so meticulously, the music of the celestial spheres? Science, philosophy, art, spirituality and music, are all important subjects in this first release of a revolutionary scientific and spiritual theory. Now you can discover the revelatory and (r)evolutionary Musical Heliospheres Theory of Mind and Sentience. Explore the connection between Celestial Music, our brains, our hearts, our sentience, and our divine tales! Find out how our solar system and brain waves are linked, and how artists and diviners of ancient times presaged these findings! (+) Discover Celestial Music, the chant of cosmic consciousness that comes heralding the fruiting of sentience and the blooming of higher consciousness! (+) The spark of the guru is in You! Buzzing through your neurons, powering your heart, and watching from the sky! (+) Readers' Comments: (+) "First among all, the artwork in this book is worth the money for it, alone." Bernardo. (+) "...thought-provoking and mind-bending... The author provides sufficient evidence to back up his writing and references for further research at the reader's pleasure. The author speaks directly to the reader, simulating a one-on-one conversation. The author additionally uses well-known Greek mythologies, stories from the Bible, and other major religions to reinforce his points and statements." Guda LM at the OnlineBookClub (+) "Mesmerizing ideas, groundbreaking! It really makes you wonder. All these patterns from the universe... show us, in our opinion, the hand of God. Bravo!" Marianella and Simon.

Author : Cynthia Shearer
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820328386

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The Celestial Jukebox by Cynthia Shearer Pdf

Boubacar, a 15-year-old boy from Africa, moves to a rural Mississippi Delta town and soon visits The Celestial Grocery, the city center presided over by a cranky second-generation Chinese proprietor and his equally cranky jukebox. The tie that binds these lives is American popular music.

Author : Gary Tomlinson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0226807924

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Music in Renaissance Magic by Gary Tomlinson Pdf

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 : Ross Hair,Thomas Ruys Smith
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781317123583

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Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music by Ross Hair,Thomas Ruys Smith Pdf

Released in 1952, The Anthology of American Folk Music was the singular vision of the enigmatic artist, musicologist, and collector Harry Smith (1923–1991). A collection of eighty-four commercial recordings of American vernacular and folk music originally issued between 1927 and 1932, the Anthology featured an eclectic and idiosyncratic mixture of blues and hillbilly songs, ballads old and new, dance music, gospel, and numerous other performances less easy to classify. Where previous collections of folk music, both printed and recorded, had privileged field recordings and oral transmission, Smith purposefully shaped his collection from previously released commercial records, pointedly blurring established racial boundaries in his selection and organisation of performances. Indeed, more than just a ground-breaking collection of old recordings, the Anthology was itself a kind of performance on the part of its creator. Over the six decades of its existence, however, it has continued to exert considerable influence on generations of musicians, artists, and writers. It has been credited with inspiring the North American folk revival—"The Anthology was our bible", asserted Dave Van Ronk in 1991, "We all knew every word of every song on it"—and with profoundly influencing Bob Dylan. After its 1997 release on CD by Smithsonian Folkways, it came to be closely associated with the so-called Americana and Alt-Country movements of the late 1990s and early 2000s. Following its sixtieth birthday, and now available as a digital download and rereleased on vinyl, it is once again a prominent icon in numerous musical currents and popular culture more generally. This is the first book devoted to such a vital piece of the large and complex story of American music and its enduring value in American life. Reflecting the intrinsic interdisciplinarity of Smith’s original project, this collection contains a variety of new perspectives on all aspects of the Anthology.

Author : Arturo Cuscó
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798512554517

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Celestial Music by Arturo Cuscó Pdf

Illustrated with the visionary, surreal art of Fernando Chamarelli. Featuring the sacred geometry art of Mauricio Brasilli and the masterful graphic designs of Fernando D'Antonio. Has Arturo Cuscó found the best proof there is suggesting that love, music and consciousness are quintessential to the formation of the universe? Have we discovered what Pythagoras, Ptolemy and Kepler sought after so meticulously, the music of the celestial spheres?Science, philosophy, art, spirituality and music, are all important subjects in this first release of a revolutionary scientific and spiritual theory. Now you can discover the revelatory and (r)evolutionary Musical Heliosphere's Theory of Mind and Sentience. Explore the connection between Celestial Music, our brains, our hearts, our sentience, and our divine tales! Find out how our solar system and brain waves are linked, and how artists and diviners of ancient times prophesied these findings! The spark of the guru is in You! In your mind, in your heart, and in the sky!

Author : The Supreme Master Ching Hai
Publisher : The Supreme Master Ching Hai Publishing Co Ltd.
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-01
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9789866895371

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Celestial Art by The Supreme Master Ching Hai Pdf

To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the founding of the Hsihu Center, in gratitude the fellow initiates have compiled this special volume of Master's artistic creations and teachings from over two decades. May the reader's gentle heart be touched by the infinite grace of our beloved Master.