Sacred Music: Its Origins, Powers, and Future - Traditional Music in Today's World - Softcover

Ram Alexander; Atmananda; Alain Danielou

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8186569332 ISBN 13: 9788186569337

Publisher: Indica Books, 2002

Synopsis

What is modal music? Why did the ancients consider music the key of sciences, related to metaphysics? Are there many 'musics', as there are many languages? Is there a relation between Indian music, jazz, cante jondo, Gregorian chant? How should we understand African music? What are the relations between music and religion? And between music and magic, or therapy? This collection of texts, covering a wide range of subjects, concerns the amateur music lover as well as the professional musician. The renowned musicologist Alain Danielous explains here clearly and simply the profound concepts relating music to its essential roots.

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Review:

"Today, music from far afield has become a reference for many specialists and connoisseurs. These treasures have inspired many contemporary composers. We owe all this to Alain Danielou. Today the existence all over the world, and especially in the Orient, of music, which is as classical as that of Bach and Mozart, is universally acknowledge; we owe that fact to Alain Danielou's farsightedness and unstinting efforts". --Aikawa, Noriko Director of the intangible heritage section of UNESCO.

About this edition

• Publisher: Indica Books
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 8186569332
• ISBN 13: 9788186569337
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224