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The Occult Arts of Music - An Esoteric Survey from Pythagoras to Pop Culture (Paperback, New)
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The Occult Arts of Music - An Esoteric Survey from Pythagoras to Pop Culture (Paperback, New)
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Occult traditions have inspired considerable musical ingenuity over
the centuries, as well as some undeniable masterpieces. From the
Pythagorean concept of a music of the spheres to the occult
subculture of 20th-century pop and rock, music has often attempted
to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and
the divine--nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the music for occult
and science fiction films such as The Mephisto Waltz, The Devil
Rides Out, Star Trek, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Omen
and The Exorcist. 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. Chapters trace the influence of esoteric
Freemasonry on Mozart and Beethoven, the birth of ""demonic"" music
in the 19th century with composers such as Weber, Berlioz and
Liszt, Wagner's racial mysticism, Schoenberg's numerical
superstition, the impact of synesthesia on art music and film, the
effect of theosophical ideas on composers such as Scriabin and
Holst, supernatural opera and ballet, fairy music and, finally,
popular music in the 1960s and '70s.
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