{"product_id":"the-music-of-the-spheres-in-the-western-imagination-9781793650351","title":"The Music of the Spheres in the Western","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination describes various systematic musical ecologies of the cosmos by examining attempts over time to define Western theoretical musical systems, whether practical, human, nonhuman, or celestial. This book focuses on the theoretical, theological, philosophical, physical, and mathematical concepts of a cosmic musical order and how these concepts have changed in order to fit different worldviews through the imaginations of theologians, theorists, and authors of fiction, as well as the practical performance of music. Special attention is given to music theory treatises between the ninth and sixteenth centuries, English-language hymnody from the eighteenth century to the present, polemical works on music and worship from the last hundred years, the Divine Comedy of Dante, nineteenth- and twentieth-century English-language fiction, the fictional works of C.S. Lewis, and the legendarium of J.R.R. Tolkien.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1 – “The Heavens Make a Harmony”: Musica Mundana, Musica Humana, and Musica Instrumentalis in the Ancient and Early Christian World\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2 – “Thy Hearing is Mortal Even as Thy Sight”: Human Perception in the Heavenly Journey of Dante’s Paradiso\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Vignette 2.5 – “I Noticed That the Grass Did Not Bend Under Their Feet”: Solid People, Ghosts, and the Sense of Touch in a Heavenly Journey of C.S. Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3 – “Behold Your Music!”: Music as a Force of Creation, Destruction, and Re-Creation in the Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Vignette 3.5 – Powerful Music: Horns, Trumpets, Voices, and Other Magical Instruments in Tolkien and Lewis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4 – When the Celestial Laws Change\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5 – To Conserve, Exploit, or Embrace?: The Human and the Non-Human in Christian Hymnody\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter Vignette 5.5 – “Still, It May Be Useful”: The Ring of Sauron and the Value Axis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6 – Bent Roads and Bent People\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6.5 – Musica Humana and the Limits of Musical Genius\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7 – The Music of the Spheres and the Modern Worship Wars\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConclusion – Da Capo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042693906775,"sku":"9781793650351","price":72.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793650351.jpg?v=1750955213","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-music-of-the-spheres-in-the-western-imagination-9781793650351","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}