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Music and Spirituality | University of Kent 10/02/21 Music and Spirituality | University of Kent Music and Spirituality View Online 95 items Key Texts (5 items) Harmonies of heaven and earth: mysticism in music from antiquity to the avant-garde - Godwin, Joscelyn, 1995 Book Music, Mysticism and Magic: A Sourcebook (Arkana) - Joscelyn Godwin, 1990-01-25 Book The music of the spheres: music, science, and the natural order of the universe - James, Jamie, 1993 Book Secret Power of Music: The Transformation of Self and Society Through Musical Energy - David Tame, 1984-02-23 Book Music in renaissance magic: toward a historiography of others - Tomlinson, Gary, 1993 Book Harmony, temperament (7 items) Harmonograph: a visual guide to the mathematics of music - Anthony Ashton, 2005 Book Cosmic Octave: Origin of Harmony - Hans Cousto, 2000-12-31 Book Music and the power of sound: the influence of tuning and interval on consciousness - Danie ́ lou, Alain, Danie ́ lou, Alain, c1995 Book How equal temperament ruined harmony (and why you should care) - Duffin, Ross W., c2007 Book 1/7 10/02/21 Music and Spirituality | University of Kent The Principles of Music - Ficino, M. Chapter Healing Sounds: The Power of Harmonics - Jonathan Goldman, 2002-09-26 Book The Mystery of the Pythagorean Comma - Tame, D. Chapter Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism (7 items) A Pythagorean Source Book - Fideler, D. ed., 1968 Book Robert Fludd: hermeneutic philosopher and surveyor of two worlds - Godwin, J., 1979 Book Touches of Sweet Harmony: Pythagorean Cosmology and Renaissance Poetics - S.K. Heninger, 1974-09 Book | Item not yet available in the Library On the Pythagorean life - Iamblichus, Clark, Gillian, 1989 Book Pythagoras' Use of Music - Iamblichus Chapter The myth of invariance: the origins of the Gods, mathematics and music from the Rg Veda to Plato - McClain, E G., 1976 Book The Pythagorean Plato - Ernest G McClain, 1978-01-01 Book | Item not yet available in the Library. Music in the Ancient World (12 items) Greek musical writings - Barker, Andrew, 1984-1989 Book Fundamentals of music - Boethius, Bower, Calvin M, Palisca, Claude V., 1989 Book The mystery of the seven vowels: in theory and practice - Godwin, Joscelyn, 1991 Book Music in Ancient Greece and Rome - John G Landels, John G. Landels, 2000-12-07 Book | Not yet available in the Library Apollo's lyre: Greek music and music theory in antiquity and the Middle Ages - Mathiesen, Thomas J., c1999 2/7 10/02/21 Music and Spirituality | University of Kent Book Musical Theory and Ancient Cosmology - McClain, Ernest Article Source readings in music history - Strunk, W. Oliver, Treitler, Leo, Tomlinson, Gary, c1998 Book Harmonics - Ptolemy Chapter | see Vol 2 De musica - Aristides Quintilianus Chapter | see Vol 2 The Secret Power of Music: The Transformation of Self and Society Through Musical Energy - David Tame, 1984-12 Book | Not yet available from the library The New Oxford History Of Music Volume I: Ancient And Oriental Music. - Egon - Edited By. Wellesz, 1960 Book Ancient Greek music - West, M. L., 1992 Book The Music of the Spheres (8 items) The Harmony of the spheres: a sourcebook of the Pythagorean tradition in music - Godwin, Joscelyn, 1993 Book Commentary on the dream of Scipio - Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius, Stahl, William Harris, c1990 Book The Medici wedding of 1589: Florentine festival as Theatrum Mundi - Saslow, James M., 1996 Book De musica: Introduction text and commentary by G Massera (from Historiae musicae cultores XIV :1961) - Giorgio Anselmi Book Heinrich Gaffurius Musica practica trans. Clement A Miller - Musicological Studies (20) Journal | Item not yet available from the Library. A Little Book of Coincidence: in the Solar System - John Southcliffe Martineau, 2000-01-01 Book | Not available yet from the Library Musica practica - B Ramos de Pareja Book | Not presently available from the Library 3/7 10/02/21 Music and Spirituality | University of Kent The music of the heavens: Kepler's harmonic astronomy - Stephenson, Bruce, 1994 Book Orpheus (8 items) Orpheus and Greek religion: a study of the Orphic movement - Guthrie, W K C., [1952] Book The arts of Orpheus - Linforth, Ivan Mortimer, 1973 [c1941] Book Impovvisatori and their relationship to 16th c.Music - Haar, James Chapter | Not yet available from the Library Prologomena to the Study of Greek Religion - Harrison, Jane Book | Not yet available from the Library Performance: revealing the Orpheus within - Anthony Rooley, 1990 Book | item not yet available from the Library Orpheus the Theologian and Renaissance Platonists - Walker, D P, 1963 Article | Item not yet available from the Library Orpheus: Metamorphosis of a Myth - 1985-03-01 Book | Item not yet available from the Library The Orphic poems - West, M L., 1983 Book Marsilio Ficino and the Renaissance (12 items) Ficino's archetypal music therapy - Ammann, P Article | Item not yet available from Library The Principles of Music (letter) Chapter On Music (letter) Chapter On Divine Frenzy (letter) Chapter Essays on Italian Poetry and Music in the Renaissance, 1350-1600 (Ernest Bloch Lectures) - James Haar, 1987-04-07 Book | Not yet available from the Library Some notes on music in Castiglione's Il Libro del Cortegiano - Kemp, W Chapter 4/7 10/02/21 Music and Spirituality | University of Kent Music and Cultural Tendencies in 15th c. Italy - Pirrotta, Nino, 1966 Article | Not yet available from the Library Source readings in music history - Strunk, W. Oliver, Treitler, Leo, Tomlinson, Gary, c1998 Book | see Vol 3 Marsilio Ficino - Ficino, Marsilio, Voss, Angela, c2006 Book Father Time and Orpheus - Voss, Angela Chapter Orpheus Redivivus: The Musical Magic of Marsilio Ficino - Voss, Angela Chapter Spiritual & demonic magic from Ficino to Campanella - Walker, D. P., 2000 Book John Dowland (6 items) Music, science and natural magic in seventeenth-century England - Gouk, Penelope, 1999 Book Dowland: Lachrimae (1604) - Peter Holman, 1999 Book | Not yet available from the Library John Dowland - Poulton, Diana, 1972 Book New Light on Dowland's Songs of Darkness - Rooley, Anthony Book | Not yet available from the Library The Power of a Melancholy Humour: Divination and Divine Tears - Voss, Angela Chapter The occult philosophy in the Elizabethan age - Yates, Frances A., 2002 Book Claudio Monteverdi and the new music (14 items) The New Monteverdi Companion - Denis Arnold, Nigel Fortune, 1985-07-22 Book | Not yet available from the Library Giulio Caccini: Le Nuove Musiche - Giulio Caccini, 1980-06 Book | Preface. Not yet available from the Library Vincenzo Galilei:Modernity and the Division of Nature - Daniel Chua Chapter Monteverdi - Fabbri, Paolo, 1994 5/7 10/02/21 Music and Spirituality | University of Kent Book Dialogue on Ancient and Modern Music (Yale Music Theory Translation) - V Galilei, 2004-01-23 Book The Monteverdi Vespers of 1610: Music, Context, Performance - Jeffrey Kurtzman, 2000-01-06 Book | Item not yet available from the Library Preface to Eighth Book of Madrigals - Monteverdi, Claudio Chapter | Item not yet available from the Library Monteverdi: Music in Transition - Silke Leopold, 1991-12-01 Book | Item not yet available from the Library Divining the oracle: Monteverdi's seconda prattica - Ossi, Massimo Michele, c2003 Book The Florentine Camerata: Documentary Studies and Translations (Yale Music Theory Translation) - Claude V. Palisca, 1989-07-01 Book | Item not yet available from the Library Behind the Mask: Monteverdi's L' Orfeo - Pickett, Philip Book | This item is not available from the Library. Please see your course convenor. Music and theatre from Poliziano to Montverdi; N Pirrotta and E Povoledo - Pirrotta, N., 1982 Book Source readings in music history - Oliver Strunk, Leo Treitler, Margaret Murata, c1998 Book | Item not yet available from the Library Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo - Whenham, John, 1986 Book Music and shamanism (3 items) Music and the Celtic otherworld: from Ireland to Iona - Ralls-MacLeod, Karen, 2000 Book Indigenous Religious Musics (SOAS Musicology Series) - Karen Ralls-MacLeod, Graham Harvey, Karen Ralls, 2000-12-29 Book | Item not yet available from the Library Music and trance: a theory of the relations between music and possession - Gilbert Rouget, Brunhilde Biebuyck, 1985 Book | Item not yet available from the Library Contemporary and General (13 items) 6/7 10/02/21 Music and Spirituality | University of Kent Philosophy of modern music - Adorno, Theodor W., Mitchell, Anne G., Blomster, Wesley V., [1973] Book A history of Western music - Grout, D J., [1962] Book The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians - Tyrrell, John, Sadie, Stanley, 2001 Book Music - Khan Inayat H., 1977-12-01 Book | Item not available yet from the Library Companion to medieval and renaissance music - Knighton, Tess, Fallows, David, 1992 Book Music in Western civilization - Lang, P H., [1942] Book Music in Renaissance Ferrara 1400-1505: the creation of a musical centre in the fifteenth century - Lockwood, L., 1984 Book Music in the Middle Ages, with an introduction on the music of ancient times - Reese, G., [1941] Book Dane Rudhyar - The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music - Appendix 1 - Rudhyar Archival Project Webpage Music in the Renaissance - Reese, G., [1959] Book Music: Its Secret Influence Throughout the Ages - Cyril Scott, 1976-01-01 Book | Not yet available from the Library Enchanting powers: music in the world's religions - Sullivan, Lawrence Eugene, 1997 Book Rational and Social Foundations of Music - M. Weber, 1958-06 Book | Item not yet available from the Library. 7/7.
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