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Explorations in Music and Esotericism

  • Edited by: Leonard George and Marjorie Roth
  • With contributions by: Elizabeth T. Abbate , Malachai Komanoff Bandy , Adam Bregman , Charles E Brewer , Benjamin M. Dobbs , Anna Gawboy , Pasquale Giaquinto , Adam Knight Gilbert , Joscelyn Godwin , Virginia Christy Lamothe , Andrew Owen , Christopher Scheer , Codee Ann Spinner , Woodrow Steinken and Daphne Tan
Language: English
Published/Copyright: 2023
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Scholars explore from many fresh angles the interweavings of two of the richest strands of human culture - music and esotericism - with examples from the medieval period to the modern age.

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George Leonard :

LEONARD GEORGE is Faculty Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Capilano University, North Vancouver, British Columbia.Roth Marjorie :

MARJORIE ROTH is professor of music history and studio flute at Nazareth College, Rochester, NY.

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The diversity of the contributions is a strength of the collection. All chapters are presented in clear and not arcane language. All contributors are highly interdisciplinary in approach-drawing from treatises on music theory, grammar, theology, science, and medicine. One of the great strengths of the book is its ability to inspire readers to devise their own esoteric connections.

A solid contribution to the interdisciplinary study of western esotericism and music. Some [chapters] are absolute gems. No esoteric musicologist's bookshelves will be complete without this one

The serious study of esotericism among contemporary academics...has been a welcome shift in the musicological landscape. [This book] reminds us that the esoteric is something more than marginal: it too is part of our cultural heritage.


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Part I. Esotericism as a Form of Thought

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Charles E. Brewer
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Joscelyn Godwin
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Daphne Tan
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Part II. Esotericism as the Keeping and Revealing of Secrets

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Leonard George
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Benjamin Dobbs
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Woodrow Steinken
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Part III. Esotericism as an Identity

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Andrew Owen
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Christopher M. Scheer
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Anna Gawboy
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Part IV. Esotericism as a Signifier

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Codee Ann Spinner
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Elizabeth Abbate
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Pasquale Giaquinto
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33 musical exx. and 47 b/w illus.
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