Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: The Spiritual Dimensions of Music from Antiquity to the Avant-garde 0892811676, 089281165X

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Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: The Spiritual Dimensions of Music from Antiquity to the Avant-garde
 0892811676, 089281165X

Table of contents :
Title page
Frontispiece
Imprint
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
PART I ASCENDING PARNASSUS
Chapter 1 The Marvellous Effects of Music
Chapter 2 Hearing Secret Harmonies
PART II THE GREAT WORK
Chapter 3 Musical Alchemy
Chapter 4 Music and the Currents of Time
PART III THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
1. The Cosmological Framework
2. Planet-Scales, Type A
3. Modern Schemes: Titius-Bode and Goldschmidt
4. Planet-Scales, Type B
5. Planets, Tones, and the Days of the Week
6. Planet-Scales, Type C
7. Systems with Movable Tones: Eriugena, Anselmi
8. Kepler's Planetary Music
9. Intervals and the Astrological Aspects
10. Tone-Zodiacs
11. Angelic Orders and Muses: the Great Chain of Being
12. The Three Means
13. Gurdjieff's Law of Octaves
14. The Harmonic Series and its Symbolism
15. The Subharmonic Series
16. The Lambdoma and the Pythagorean Table
17. Beyond Manifestation: 1/1 and O/O
Notes
Bibliography of Works cited
Index

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