Meyer-Baer Music of the Spheres and the Dance of Death

Studies in Musical Iconology
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-4008-7233-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 1307, 406 Seiten

Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Meyer-Baer, Kathi

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter, pg. i
Preface, pg. vii
Photographic Sources, pg. xi
Contents, pg. xiii
List of Illustrations, pg. xvii
Introduction to Part One, pg. 2
I. Theories of the Cosmos in Antiquity, pg. 7
II. The Hellenistic Period, pg. 20
III. The Early Christian Centuries, pg. 29
IV. The Early Works of Art, pg. 42
V. Tonal Theories of Music of the Spheres, pg. 70
VI. The Emergence of Celestial Musicians in Christian Iconography, pg. 87
VII. Late Medieval Writings and Dante's Paradise, pg. 116
DANCING ANGELS AND THE DANCE OF THE BLESSED, pg. 130
SINGING ANGELS, pg. 138
ANGEL ORCHESTRAS, pg. 143
ANGELS OF THE PSALTER, pg. 173
ANGELS’ INSTRUMENTS – REAL OR IMAGINARY?, pg. 183
IX. Renaissance and Humanism, pg. 188
X. Two Offshoots of the Idea of the Music of the Spheres, pg. 203
Introduction to Part Two, pg. 218
XI. Music as a Symbol of Death in Antiquity, pg. 224
XII. Later Greek Concepts and the Hellenistic Period, pg. 242
XIII. The Christian Era the Development of Early Medieval Images, pg. 270
XIV. Later Medieval Images: The Dance of Death, pg. 291
XV. The Fifteenth-Century Mystics, pg. 313
XVI. Survivals of Earlier Images, pg. 320
Conclusion: Survivals in Contemporary Musical Concepts, pg. 337
Appendix I. EXCERPTS FROM FIRST CHAPTER OF LETTER ON HARMONY ADDRESSED TO ARCHBISHOP RATHBOD OF TREVES BY REGINO OF PRÜM, pg. 349
Appendix II. EXCERPTS FROM THE HYMN “NATURALIS CONCORDIA VOCUM CUM PLANETIS” (“NATURAL HARMONY OF THE TONK AND THE PLANETS”), pg. 351
Appendix III. THE MUSIC IN DANTE’S COSMOS, pg. 352
Appendix IV. A NOTE ON THE SINGERS OF THE GHENT ALTAR, pg. 357
Appendix V. REAL OR IMAGINARY INSTRUMENTS: AN EXAMINATION OF THE BEATUS MANUSCRIPTS AND THE UTRECHT PSALTER, pg. 360
Index, pg. 365