Music and the Power of Sound by Daniélou, Alain -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Dedication Contents List of Tables and Figures Foreword by Sylvano Bussotti Editor’s Note Chapter One: Metaphysical Correspondences Chapter Two: The Conflict of Musical Systems

The Different Musical Systems The Structure of Musical Sounds Relations between Sounds Fifth and Octave Octave and Mode Fifth and Modulation Harmony and Temperament Melodic Expression or Harmonic Expression

Chapter Three: The Measurement of Intervals and Harmonic Sounds

Measurement of Intervals The Scale of Sounds Notation Harmonics The Scale of Harmonics

Chapter Four: The-Cycle of Fifths: The Musical Theory of the Chinese

Chinese Music The Nature and Purpose of Music Yin and Yang The Seven Degrees of the Pentatonic Scale Symbolic Representation of the Pentatonic Scale The Spiral of Fifths Equalized or Tempered divisions The Lü The Degrees of the Scale The Scale of the Lü Symbolism and Correspondences of the Lü Meanings of the Names of the First Twelve Lü Correspondences of the Degrees of the Scale Western Commentaries

Chapter Five: Relations to A Tonic: The Model Music of India

Indian Musical Theory The Laws of Music and their Applications Modal System and Harmonic System The Problem of the Division of Sound The Theory of Elements Sound and Vibration The Nine Svaras The Tonic and the Grāmas The Diatonic Series and the Comma Diesis The Tonic and Cosmic Cycles The Two Diatonic Scales The Ga Grāma The Scale of Nine Sounds and the Mūrchanas Chromatic and Enharmonic Acoustic Definition of the Division of Śrutis Symbolic Necessity of the Division into Twenty-two Śrutis Musical Definition of the Śrutis Further Subdivisions of the Śrutis Misinterpretations of the Śrutis Western Division of the Octave into Twenty-two Intervals Influence of Indian Theory in Europe The Jātis Affinities of the Musical Notes The Modes or Rāgas Definition of Rāgas The Periods of the Day The Modal or Harmonic Division of the Octave

Chapter Six: Confusion of The Systems: The Music of The Greeks

Ancient Greek Music The Theory of the Scale Genus The Enharmonic Genus The Chromatic Genus The Diatonic Genus Dorian Harmonies Exotic Harmonies The Fifteen Tones of Transposition

Chapter Seven: The Western Scale and Equal Temperament

Western Music The Modes of Plainchant The Scale of Zarlino The Major Mode Equal Temperament

Chapter Eight: The Scale of Sounds

The Need for a Scale of Sounds Three, the Cyclic Number, and Five, the Modal Number Similarities Between the Scale of Fifths and the Scale of Proportions Remarks on The Scale of Sounds Conclusions

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