Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness

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Alain Danielou

Music and the Power of Sound

The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness

Alain Danielou

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English

Inner Traditions Bear and Company
01 August 1995

Theory of music & musicology

Music has always been esteemed for its power to speak directly to our higher consciousness, a power founded in the purity of simple harmonic ratios. In this book, Alain Danielou traces the development of musical scales and tuning from their origins in both China and India, through their merging in ancient Greece, and on to the development of the Western traditions of modal and polyphonic music. Understanding these potent harmonic relationships offers a way for today's musicians to transcend the limitations of overly rationalistic music by drawing on its metaphysical roots.

By: Alain Danielou
Imprint: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Reprinted edition
Dimensions: Height: 152mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780892813360
ISBN 10: 0892813369
Pages: 192
Publication Date: 01 August 1995
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

List of Tables and Figures Foreword by Sylvano Bussotti Editor's Note 1. Metaphysical Correspondences 2. The Conflict of Musical Systems 3. The Measurement of Intervals and Harmonic Sounds 4. The Cycle of Fifths, The Musical Theory of the Chinese 5. Relations to a Tonic: The Modal Music of India 6. Confusion of the Systems: The Music of the Greeks 7. The Western Scale and Equal Temperament 8. The Scale of Sounds References Bibliography Index

Alain Daniélou (1907-1994) was without question a Renaissance man. Following his early years as an artist, dancer, and musician in Paris (Cocteau, Diaghilev, and Stravinsky were among his friends), Daniélou settled in India, where he spent fifteen years in the study of Sanskrit, philosophy, and music. After numerous university appointments in India, he returned in 1963 to Europe, establishing the Institute of Comparative Music Studies in Berlin for the reevaluation of Asian music. Daniélou wrote more than thirty books about the philosophy, religion, history, and arts of India, including Gods of Love and Ecstasy; Myths and Gods of India; Virtue, Success, Pleasure, and Liberation; While the Gods Play; The Phallus; and The Complete Kama Sutra.

Reviews for Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness

Our debt to his scholarship and humanity is immeasurable. * The Times Literary Supplement * With his fierce, global intelligence, Alain Danielou was the first to wake up the West to the universality of musical harmony and its potential for planetary consciousness. * W.A. Mathieu, author of The Listening Book and The Musical Life *