Music and the Power of Sound

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The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness

By Alain Danielou

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Music and the Power of Sound by Alain Danielou explores the profound influence of music through harmonic ratios. The book traces the evolution of musical scales and tuning systems across China, India, ancient Greece, and the Western modal and polyphonic traditions. Danielou reveals how understanding these harmonics connects musicians to music's metaphysical origins, offering a path beyond purely rationalistic approaches.
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Format: Hardback

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This book is ideal for musicians, music theorists, and cultural historians interested in the metaphysical and historical dimensions of sound and harmony.

Music has always been esteemed for its power to speak directly to our higher consciousness. Alain Danielou traces the development of musical scales and tuning from their origins in both China and India, through their merging in ancient Greece, and on to the development of the Western traditions of modal and polyphonic music.

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Music has always been esteemed for its power to speak directly to our higher consciousness, a power founded in the purity of simple harmonic ratios. In this book, Music and the Power of Sound, Alain Danielou traces the development of musical scales and tuning from their origins in both China and India, through their merging in ancient Greece, and on to the development of the Western traditions of modal and polyphonic music.

Understanding these potent harmonic relationships offers a way for today's musicians to transcend the limitations of overly rationalistic music by drawing on its metaphysical roots.

"Our debt to his scholarship and humanity is immeasurable." — The Times Literary Supplement

"With his fierce, global intelligence, Alain Danielou was the first to wake up the West to the universality of musical harmony and its potential for planetary consciousness." — W.A. Mathieu

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Praised for its global perspective and scholarly depth, the book is hailed as a pioneering work awakening Western audiences to the universal power of musical harmony and its capacity for enhancing planetary consciousness. W.A. Mathieu calls Danielou's intelligence "fierce" and transformative, while The Times Literary Supplement honours his scholarship and humanity.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780892813360

Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 23 August 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: Inner Traditions Bear and Company

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 20.0mm

Width: 229.0mm

Height: 152.0mm

Weight: 1g

Pages: 192

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About the Author

Alain Danielou (1907-1994) was without question a Renaissance man. Following his early years as an artist, dancer, and musician in Paris (Cocteau, Diaghilev, and Stravinsky were among his friends), Danielou settled in India, where he spent fifteen years in the study of Sanskrit, philosophy, and music. After numerous university appointments in India, he returned in 1963 to Europe, establishing the Institute of Comparative Music Studies in Berlin for the reevaluation of Asian music. Danielou wrote more than thirty books about the philosophy, religion, history, and arts of India, including Gods of Love and Ecstasy; Myths and Gods of India; Virtue, Success, Pleasure, and Liberation; While the Gods Play; The Phallus; and The Complete Kama Sutra.