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Author Huckvale, David, author.

Title The occult arts of music : an esoteric survey from Pythagoras to pop culture / David Huckvale.

Publication Info. Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Summary "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/musical nature"-- Provided by publisher
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Music and occultism.
Music and occultism.
Mysticism in music.
Mysticism in music.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Huckvale, David. Occult arts of music 9780786473243 (DLC) 2013030588 (OCoLC)817595740
ISBN 9781476602059 (electronic book)
1476602050 (electronic book)
9780786473243
078647324X
Standard No. 40022828668