The occult arts of music : an esoteric survey from Pythagoras to pop culture /
"Music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and the divine. This wide-ranging survey explores how such film music works and uncovers its origins in Pythagorean and Platonic ideas about the divine order of the universe and its essentially numerical/...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jefferson, North Carolina :
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
[2013]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- The music of the spheres
- Two-masonic music
- The birth of the demonic
- Wagner's racial mysticism and Schoenberg's numerical superstition
- Synesthesia
- Theosophy
- Phantoms at the opera
- Dancing with death
- Fairy music
- Satan rocks : popular music and the occult.