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The musical order of the world: Kepler, Hesse, Hindemith

Siglind Bruhn
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page 7)
  • Preface (page 9)
  • Kepler: Music and the Quest for the Harmony of the World
  • Hesse: In Search of Consonance in the World's Cultures
  • Hindemith: Operatic Portrayal of Kepler's Dream of Harmony
  • Part I - Music
    • The Paradigm of Embodied Consonance (page 39)
    • Archetypal Harmonies in Hindemith's Symphony and Opera (page 45)
    • Tonal Patterns in Layout and Thematic Material (page 49)
    • Music's Moral Power in Ancient China and Hesse's Castalia (page 55)
    • Musical Structures in the Tale of the Rise of Castalia (page 57)
  • Part II - Arithmetic
    • The Eternal Realm of Numerical Relations (page 65)
    • Dramatic Analogy and Musical Proportion in Hindemith's Opera (page 69)
    • Tetraktys, Pentagram, and the Disharmonious SEVEN (page 72)
    • Numerical Order in the Two Worlds of The Glass Bead Game (page 77)
    • Mind Against, With, or In Nature: a Dialectic Compositio (page 80)
  • Part III - Geometry
    • Ideal Figures and Bodie (page 89)
    • Kepler's Somnium and Hindemith's Rondos (page 95)
    • Hesse's Castalian "Chinese House Game" (page 105)
  • Part IV - Astronomy
    • The Divine Signature in Cosmic Harmony (page 117)
    • Cosmic Nesting and Orbiting in Die Harmonie der Welt (page 123)
    • A Planet Unleashed (page 127)
    • The Limits of the Logocentric World View (page 129)
    • Copernican Mobilization: Toward a Holistic Concept (page 131)
    • Five-Step Harmonization in Life and Game (page 134)
  • Part V - Metaphysics
    • The Musical Nature of the World-Soul (page 141)
    • Kepler's Religious Conviction in Life and Opera (page 147)
    • The Spiritual Message in Hindemith's Quotations (page 152)
    • The I Ching in the Life of Joseph Knecht (page 157)
  • Part VI - Cosmic Harmony and Human Experience
    • Cosmic Events and Their Impact on Earth (page 169)
    • Astrology in Hindemith's Opera (page 175)
    • Soul and Society in Die Harmonie der Welt (page 177)
    • Benevolent versus Coercive Applications of Kepler's Harmony (page 179)
    • The Transtemporal Development of a Soul: Knecht's Five Lives (page 183)
  • Part VII - Art as a Hymn to Universal Harmony
    • Human Art: Imitating Nature's Proportions (page 195)
    • Kepler's Poetry and the Meaning of Death (page 203)
    • Edifices of Devotion in Hindemith's Die Harmonie der Welt (page 207)
    • Knecht's Awakening and Death (page 213)
    • Knecht's Poems: Synthesis of a Discursive Glass Bead Game (page 214)
    • Musical (and Game) Notation: Antidotes to Impermanence (page 219)
    • Coda (page 222)
    • Conclusion: Musical Order in the World (page 223)
  • Appendices (page 225)
  • Bibliography (page 241)
  • List of Musical Examples, Figures, and Illustrations (page 250)
  • Index (page 253)
  • About the Author (page 256)
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Published: c2005
Publisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781576471173 (paper)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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