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Author:   Laurence Wuidar
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   9
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.620kg
ISBN:  

9789004182677

ISBN 10:   9004182675
Pages:   382
Publication Date:   14 July 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Laurence Wuidar PART ONE EARLY MODERN OCCULT KNOWLEDGE AND MUSIC Music and Magnetism, from Abu Ma'shar to Kircher Charles Burnett Le medecin et les sons : Musique et magie dans Le Livre des eschez amoureux moralises d'Evrart de Conty Amandine Mussou Prophecy, Harmony, and the Alchemical Transformation of the Soul: The Key to Lasso's Chromatic Sibyls Marjorie A. Roth Dwelling in Darkness: Dowland's Dark Songs as Hermetic Pessimist Gnosis, and Could this be 'Evidence' of the Esoteric 'School of Night'? Anthony Rooley Orpheus Recured : The Healing Art of Thomas Campion Barbara Kennedy Giovambattista della Porta e l'efficacia terapeutica della musica Concetta Pennuto Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) e la musica Marta Moiso Representation esoterique et pensee scientifique. Le cas de la vibration par sympathie chez les savants et theoriciens de la premiere moitie du 17e siecle Brigitte Van Wymeersch Musical Theory and Astrological Foundations in Kepler: The Making of the New Aspects David Juste PHILOSOPHICAL INTERMEZZO Apercu sur le role de l'harmonie musicale dans l'oeuvre de Proclus Mael Mathieu and Daniel Cohen Quelques philosophes du XIXe siecle et la musique comme esoterisme moderne Jacques Amblard PART TWO NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURY MUSICAL ESOTERICISM The Mysteries of Sound in H. P. Blavatsky's 'Esoteric Instructions' Tim Rudbog Evoking the Mystical: The Esoteric Legacy of Ferruccio Busoni Judith Crispin Musica pietrificata, sculture sonore: Aleksandr Skrjabin tra estasi e teosofia Barbara Aniello The Unspeakable and the Law: Esotericism in Anton Webern and the Second Viennese School Wouter J. Hanegraaff Music, Magic and Postmodern Historical Metafiction: Helmuth Krausser's Melodien (1993) Gyoergy E. Szoenyi Index

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Having read the book with much pleasure, I would like to applaud the authors for their expedition into this intriguing field of relations between music, science and `esotericism'. I hope that the essays will be read not only by scholars interested in the individual philosophers and musicians analysed, but also by those concerned with general patterns within the European history of religion and the theoretical considerations arising from a study of this researchfield. - Isabel Laack, Universitat Heidelberg in: Religion, Volume 42 (2012), Issue 1.

Having read the book with much pleasure, I would like to applaud the authors for their expedition into this intriguing field of relations between music, science and 'esotericism'. I hope that the essays will be read not only by scholars interested in the individual philosophers and musicians analysed, but also by those concerned with general patterns within the European history of religion and the theoretical considerations arising from a study of this researchfield. - Isabel Laack, Universitat Heidelberg in: Religion, Volume 42 (2012), Issue 1.

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Laurence Wuidar, Ph.D. (2007) in Philosophy & Letters - Musicology, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, is Research Fellow at the FNRS. Her publications include the books Musique et astrologie apres le Concile de Trente (Brepols, 2008), Canons enigmes et hieroglyphes musicaux dans l'Italie du 17eme siecle (Peter Lang, 2008) and L'Angelo et il Girasole. Conversazioni Filosofico-Musicali (ESD 2010).

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