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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
