Alain Daniélou

Music and the Power of Sound (eBook, ePUB)

The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Music has always been esteemed for its power to speak directly to our higher consciousness, a power founded in the purity of simple harmonic ratios. In this book, Alain Danielou traces the development of musical scales and tuning from their origins in both China and India, through their merging in ancient Greece, and on to the development of the Western traditions of modal and polyphonic music. Understanding these potent harmonic relationships offers a way for today's musicians to transcend the limitations of overly rationalistic music by drawing on its metaphysical roots.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 1995
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781620550908
• Artikelnr.: 49160659

Autorenporträt

Alain Daniélou (1907-1994) spent more than 15 years in the traditional society of India, using only the Sanskrit and Hindi languages and studying music and philosophy with eminent scholars. He was duly initiated into esoteric Shaivism, which gave him unusual access to texts transmitted through the oral tradition alone. He is the author of more than 30 books on the religion, history, and arts of India and the Mediterranean.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Tables and Figures
Foreword by Sylvano Bussotti
Editor's Note
1. Metaphysical Correspondences
2. The Conflict of Musical Systems
3. The Measurement of Intervals and Harmonic Sounds
4. The Cycle of Fifths, The Musical Theory of the Chinese
5. Relations to a Tonic: The Modal Music of India
6. Confusion of the Systems: The Music of the Greeks
7. The Western Scale and Equal Temperament
8. The Scale of Sounds
References
Bibliography
Index