Occult Arts of Music
Subtitle: An Esoteric Survey from Pythagoras to Pop Culture
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780786473243
Subjects: Music, history and criticism, 20th century
Description: "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"--