David J. Kendall

The Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book describes various Western musical ecologies of the cosmos developed from the ancient world to the present, ecologies that seek to define the creation and preservation of the universe through musical principles. The author explores centuries of musical treatises, hymns, and Western fiction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9781793650351
• ISBN-10: 1793650357
• Artikelnr.: 64932911

Autorenporträt

By David J. Kendall

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 - "The Heavens Make a Harmony": Musica Mundana, Musica Humana,
and Musica Instrumentalis in the Ancient and Early Christian World
Chapter 2 - "Thy Hearing is Mortal Even as Thy Sight": Human Perception in
the Heavenly Journey of Dante's Paradiso
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter Vignette 3.5 - Powerful Music: Horns, Trumpets, Voices, and Other
Magical Instruments in Tolkien and Lewis
Chapter 4 - When the Celestial Laws Change
Chapter 5 - To Conserve, Exploit, or Embrace?: The Human and the Non-Human
in Christian Hymnody
Chapter Vignette 5.5 - "Still, It May Be Useful": The Ring of Sauron and
the Value Axis
Chapter 6 - Bent Roads and Bent People
Chapter 6.5 - Musica Humana and the Limits of Musical Genius
Chapter 7 - The Music of the Spheres and the Modern Worship Wars
Conclusion - Da Capo
Bibliography