Music of the Spheres and the Dance of Death : : Studies in Musical Iconology /

Music of the Spheres and the Dance of Death : : Studies in Musical Iconology / / Kathi Meyer-Baer.

The roots and evolution of two concepts usually thought to be Western in origin-musica mundana (the music of the spheres) and musica humana (music's relation to the human soul)-are explored. Beginning with a study of the early creeds of the Near East, Professor Meyer-Baer then traces their deve...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1931-1979
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Meyer-Baer, Kathi,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©1970
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 1307
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Physical Description:1 online resource (406 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Photographic Sources
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • ONE. MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
  • Introduction to Part One
  • I. Theories of the Cosmos in Antiquity
  • II. The Hellenistic Period
  • III. The Early Christian Centuries
  • IV. The Early Works of Art
  • V. Tonal Theories of Music of the Spheres
  • VI. The Emergence of Celestial Musicians in Christian Iconography
  • VII. Late Medieval Writings and Dante's Paradise
  • VIII. Musician Angels
  • DANCING ANGELS AND THE DANCE OF THE BLESSED
  • SINGING ANGELS
  • ANGEL ORCHESTRAS
  • ANGELS OF THE PSALTER
  • ANGELS' INSTRUMENTS - REAL OR IMAGINARY?
  • IX. Renaissance and Humanism
  • X. Two Offshoots of the Idea of the Music of the Spheres
  • TWO. MUSIC AND DEATH
  • Introduction to Part Two
  • XI. Music as a Symbol of Death in Antiquity
  • XII. Later Greek Concepts and the Hellenistic Period
  • XIII. The Christian Era the Development of Early Medieval Images
  • XIV. Later Medieval Images: The Dance of Death
  • XV. The Fifteenth-Century Mystics
  • XVI. Survivals of Earlier Images
  • Conclusion: Survivals in Contemporary Musical Concepts
  • Appendix I. EXCERPTS FROM FIRST CHAPTER OF LETTER ON HARMONY ADDRESSED TO ARCHBISHOP RATHBOD OF TREVES BY REGINO OF PRÜM
  • Appendix II. EXCERPTS FROM THE HYMN "NATURALIS CONCORDIA VOCUM CUM PLANETIS" ("NATURAL HARMONY OF THE TONK AND THE PLANETS")
  • Appendix III. THE MUSIC IN DANTE'S COSMOS
  • Appendix IV. A NOTE ON THE SINGERS OF THE GHENT ALTAR
  • Appendix V. REAL OR IMAGINARY INSTRUMENTS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE BEATUS MANUSCRIPTS AND THE UTRECHT PSALTER
  • Index

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