The music of the spheres -- Masonic music -- The birth of the demonic -- Wagner's racial mysticism and Schoenberg's numerical superstition -- Synesthesia -- Theosophy -- Phantoms at the opera -- Dancing with death -- Fairy music -- Satan rocks : popular music and the occult.
Summary:
"Music has often attempted to express mystical states of mind, cosmic harmony, the demonic and the divine. This wide-ranging survey explores how such film music works and uncovers its origins in Pythagorean and Platonic ideas about the divine order of the universe and its essentially numerical/musical nature"-- Provided by publisher.
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