Music influences virtually every physical, intellectual and emotional process. Harmonious music makes plants grow faster: dissonant music stunts and kills them. Music can even change chromosomes.
Drawing upon the wisdom of ancient civilizations as well as contemporary scientific data, David Tame offers a challenging and timely alternative view to the widely-held modern notion that music is an intangible art form of little practical significance.
This in-depth study of the hidden side of music — probably the most detailed and all-encompassing book on the subject yet written — includes discussion of:
* music and morality
* music therapy
* sound and colour
* the tonal aspects of the American Revolution
* music and magic in Ancient China
* the origins and effects of jazz and the blues
* the seven mystical rays
* atoms as harmonic resonators
* planetary conjunctions as cosmic chords
* music and the computer
* the physics of the OM
* music and the new age
Author(s): David Tame
Publisher: Destiny Books
Year: 1984
Language: English
Commentary: e-ink optimized
Pages: 304
City: New York
Tags: pytagoreanism;harmony of the spheres;music philosophy;aesthetics;secretpowerofmus0000tame
Cover
Title Page
Imprint
Contents
Acknowledgements
Overture: Music and its Power
1. The Ancient Wisdom: Music in China
2. The Twentieth Century: The ‘New Music’
3. Assessment: Music, Man and Society
4. The Ancient Wisdom: Music in India
5. The Twentieth Century: Jazz and the Blues — Their Nature and Origin
6. Assessment: The Physics of the OM
Appendix to 6. The Mystery of Pythagoras’ Comma
Coda: The Ancient Wisdom Revisited: The Modern Esoteric Viewpoint
Further Reading (and Listening!)
Reference Notes
Index
