esoterism
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The Harmony of the Spheres: The Pythagorean Tradition in Music Joscelyn Godwin Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin traces the history of the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos, with its…
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Harmonies of Heaven and Earth: Mysticism in Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde Joscelyn Godwin Joscelyn Godwin explores music’s effects on matter, living things, and human behavior. Turning to metaphysical accounts of the higher worlds and theories of celestial harmony,…
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The Music of the Spheres: Music, Science, and the Natural Order of the Universe Jamie James For centuries, scientists and philosophers believed that the universe was a stately, ordered mechanism, both mathematical and musical. The perceived distances between objects in…