George / Roth Explorations in Music and Esotericism

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-80543-050-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 192, 348 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Eastman Studies in Music

Scholars explore from many fresh angles the interweavings of two of the richest strands of human culture - music and esotericism - with examples from the medieval period to the modern age.

Autoren/Hrsg.

George, Leonard

Roth, Marjorie

Weitere Mitwirkende

Abbate, Elizabeth T.

Bandy, Malachai Komanoff

Bregman, Adam

Brewer, Charles E.

Dobbs, Benjamin M.

Gawboy, Anna

Giaquinto, Pasquale

Gilbert, Adam Knight

Godwin, Joscelyn

Lamothe, Virginia Christy

Owen, Andrew

Scheer, Christopher

Spinner, Codee Ann

Steinken, Woodrow

Tan, Daphne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Alternative Glaubensformen Okkultismus und andere religiöse Praktiken
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword
Joscelyn Godwin
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Muzzled Muse
Leonard George and Marjorie Roth
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Part One: Esotericism as a Form of Thought
1. The Hermaphroditic Nature of the mi-fa Complex
Adam Bregman
2. Athanasius Kircher and the Nature of Ecstatic Listening
Charles Brewer
3. Claude Bragdon's Images of the Seven Degrees of the Scale
Joscelyn Godwin
4. Music Analysis as Esoteric Activity: Viktor Zuckerkandl at Eranos
Daphne Tan
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Part Two: Esotericism as the Keeping and Revealing of Secrets
5. Concealment Revealed: Sound and Symbol in Ockeghem's Missa Quinti toni and Missa Prolationum
Adam Knight Gilbert
6. Air and Eros: Musician as Demiurge in Renaissance Magic
Leonard George
7. "De septenario illo et sacro numero": The Divine Septenarius in Baryphonus and Grimm's Pleiades musicae
Benjamin Dobbs
8. The Hoard and the Grail: A Wagnerian Conspiracy in Five Parts
Woodrow Steinken
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Part Three: Esotericism as an Identity
9. Tommaso Campanella, the Barberini Palace, and the Soul's Perception of Music
Virginia Christy Lamothe
10. Sonic Symbolism: Matthew Cooke's Music for the Scottish Rite Craft Degrees
Andrew Owen
11. New American Eden: Katherine Tingley in Lomaland
Christopher M. Scheer
12. Theosophy and the Esoteric Roots of Sun Ra's Afrofuturism
Anna Gawboy
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Part Four: Esotericism as a Signifier
13. "Im Himmel und auf Erden": Geometry, Alchemy, and Rosicrucian Symbol in Buxtehude's Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab' (BUXWV 38)
Malachai Komanoff Bandy
14. (In)Audible Sound and Spiritualist Acoustemologies
Codee Ann Spinner
15. As Above, So Below: Magic Squares and Immutable Laws of Nature in Webern's Opus 24
Elizabeth Abbate
16. The Osiris-Light in Nino Rota's Music
Pasquale Giaquinto
Contributors to This Volume
Index

Über Autor(innen)

George Leonard:
LEONARD GEORGE is Faculty Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Capilano University, North Vancouver, British Columbia.Roth Marjorie:
MARJORIE ROTH is professor of music history and studio flute at Nazareth College, Rochester, NY.