Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness - Hardcover

Alain Danielou

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892813369 ISBN 13: 9780892813360

Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company, 1995

Synopsis

An accomplished musician and Hindu scholar looks to the harmonic ratios of ancient China, India and Greece as he explores the power of music to speak to our higher consciousness.

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Review:

"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, author of The Listening Book and The Musical Life

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

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0892813369
• ISBN 13: 9780892813360
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192