Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination

Music of the Spheres in the Western Imagination

Kendall, David J.

Lexington Books

11/2022

260

Dura

Inglês

9781793650351

15 a 20 dias

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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
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C.S. Lewis;cosmic music;Dante;ecomusicology;Ecotheology;hymnody;hymns;music;music theory;musica humana;musica instrumentalis;musica mundana;musicology;Tolkien