num_pages: 154
description: A children's book written especially for grown-ups. The Field Manual tells the magical odyssey of a boy and his animal companions who journey through adventure and trial to discover an incredible House of Symphonies whose music changes the creatures and their world forever. The walls and floors of this house contain musical symbols that, in conjunction with floors, ceilings and spaces, constitute the score for music played in the house. This, in fact, describes a house that author Christopher Lantz built as "an acoustical structure which in its entirety is the specific scoring of forty-nine and more symphonies based on seven unique spectral musical languages." To illuminate the nature of this remarkable house and its music, Dr. Lantz has written the Field Manual told from the viewpoint of a child. Only though this form could he tell the truth without completely obscuring reality with facts. It is Dr. Lantz's belief that everyone should have access to their own creative and visionary experiences. He feels that music, especially, provides a way to touch the elements from which our lives, world views and cultures are created and can be changed. Only once in a great while is a book published that so thoroughly dismantles our collective view about who we are and about the nature of our universe.
language: English
title: Field Manual for the Performances of the Forty-Nine Symphonies: The Odyssey of Three Creatures in Search of a Natural World
titlecomplete: Field Manual for the Performances of the Forty-Nine Symphonies: The Odyssey of Three Creatures in Search of a Natural World
publisher: Way Of The Turtle