Sacred and religious music Books

Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the relationships that exist between esotericism and music from Antiquity to the 20th century, investigating ways in which magic, astrology, alchemy, divination, and cabbala interact with music. Ce livre offre un panorama des relations entre l’ésotérisme et la musique de l’Antiquité au 20ème siècle et montre comment la magie, l’astrologie, l’alchimie, la divination et la cabale interagissent avec l’art et la science des sons.Trade ReviewHaving read the book with much pleasure, I would like to applaud the authors for their expedition into this intriguing field of relations between music, science and ‘esotericism’. I hope that the essays will be read not only by scholars interested in the individual philosophers and musicians analysed, but also by those concerned with general patterns within the European history of religion and the theoretical considerations arising from a study of this researchfield. - Isabel Laack, Universität Heidelberg in: Religion, Volume 42 (2012), Issue 1.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction Laurence Wuidar PART ONE EARLY MODERN OCCULT KNOWLEDGE AND MUSIC Music and Magnetism, from Abu Ma‘shar to Kircher Charles Burnett Le medecin et les sons : Musique et magie dans Le Livre des eschez amoureux moralisés d’Evrart de Conty Amandine Mussou Prophecy, Harmony, and the Alchemical Transformation of the Soul: The Key to Lasso’s Chromatic Sibyls Marjorie A. Roth Dwelling in Darkness: Dowland’s Dark Songs as Hermetic Pessimist Gnosis, and Could this be ‘Evidence’ of the Esoteric ‘School of Night’? Anthony Rooley Orpheus “Recured”: The Healing Art of Thomas Campion Barbara Kennedy Giovambattista della Porta e l’efficacia terapeutica della musica Concetta Pennuto Tommaso Campanella (1568–1639) e la musica Marta Moiso Representation esoterique et pensee scientifique. Le cas de la vibration par sympathie chez les savants et theoriciens de la premiere moitie du 17e siecle Brigitte Van Wymeersch Musical Theory and Astrological Foundations in Kepler: The Making of the New Aspects David Juste PHILOSOPHICAL INTERMEZZO Apercu sur le role de l’harmonie musicale dans l’oeuvre de Proclus Maël Mathieu and Daniel Cohen Quelques philosophes du XIXe siecle et la musique comme esoterisme moderne Jacques Amblard PART TWO NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSICAL ESOTERICISM The Mysteries of Sound in H. P. Blavatsky’s ‘Esoteric Instructions’ Tim Rudbøg Evoking the Mystical: The Esoteric Legacy of Ferruccio Busoni Judith Crispin Musica pietrificata, sculture sonore: Aleksandr Skrjabin tra estasi e teosofia Barbara Aniello The Unspeakable and the Law: Esotericism in Anton Webern and the Second Viennese School Wouter J. Hanegraaff Music, Magic and Postmodern Historical Metafiction: Helmuth Krausser’s Melodien (1993) György E. Szönyi Index

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Book SynopsisIn Artistic Disobedience Claudio Bacciagaluppi shows how music practice was an occasion for cross-confessional contacts in 17th- and 18th-century Switzerland, implying religious toleration. The difference between public and private performing contexts, each with a distinct repertoire, appears to be of paramount importance. Confessional barriers were overcome in an individual, private perspective. Converted musicians provide striking examples. Also, book trade was often cross-confessional. Music by Catholic (but also Lutheran) composers was diffused in Reformed territories mainly in the private music societies of Swiss German towns (collegia musica). The political and pietist influences in the Zurich and Winterthur music societies encouraged forms of communication that are among the acknowledged common roots of European Enlightenment.Trade Review“Bacciagaluppi’s work is a testament to the type of musicological work that can be done on archival records, and it will become a valuable reference for those interested in the ramifications of societal polarisation.” Timothy Duguid, University of Glasgow. In: The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 69, No. 3 (July 2018), pp. 664-666.Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Tables List of Music Examples List of Archival Sources Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction 1 Music in the Confessional Age 2 Approaching the Other 3 The Book Market 4 The ‘Collegia Musica’ 5 Conclusions: Music as an Agent of Toleration?

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Book SynopsisThis is the first comprehensive study of Greek language ordinary chants (Gloria/Doxa, Credo/Pisteuo, Sanctus/Hagios and Agnus Dei/Amnos tu theu) in Western manuscripts from the 9th to the 14th centuries. For the first time, this book presents an in-depth analysis of these chants and their historical, linguistic and theological-liturgical environment from a Byzantine perspective. The new approach enables the author to refute numerous (and largely contradictory) theories on the origin and development of the Missa Graeca and provides new answers to old questions.

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