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1 online resource (256 pages) : illustrations |
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Interplay ; no. 4 |
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Interplay (Hillsdale, N.Y.) ; no. 4.
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| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments 6 -- Preface 9 -- Kepler: Music and the Quest for the Harmony of the World 13 -- Harmonices mundi: A Treatise about Universal Consonance 13 -- The Development of the Pythagorean Concept of Harmony 15 -- The Life and Time of the Future Operatic Protagonist 20 -- Hesse: In Search of Consonance in the World's Cultures 23 -- Castalia and Its Exemplary Student 23 -- The Glass Bead Game: Genesis and Structure 27 -- Playing the Castalian Game: Hints for the Uninitiated 29 -- Hindemith: Operatic Portrayal of Kepler's Dream of Harmony 31 -- Universal Harmony in a Composer's Thinking 31 -- The Genesis of Die Harmonie der Welt 32 -- Cosmological and Spiritual Themes in the Operatic Plot 33 -- Part I -- Music -- The Paradigm of Embodied Consonance 39 -- Archetypal Harmonies in Hindemith's Symphony and Opera 45 -- Tonal Patterns in Layout and Thematic Material 49 -- Music's Moral Power in Ancient China and Hesse's Castalia 55 -- Musical Structures in the Tale of the Rise of Castalia 57 -- Part II -- Arithmetic -- The Eternal Realm of Numerical Relations 65 -- Dramatic Analogy and Musical Proportion in Hindemith's Opera 69 -- Tetraktys, Pentagram, and the Disharmonious seven 72 -- Numerical Order in the Two Worlds of The Glass Bead Game 77 -- Mind Against, With, or In Nature: a Dialectic Composition 80 -- Part III -- Geometry -- Ideal Figures and Bodies 89 -- Kepler's Somnium and Hindemith's Rondos 95 -- Hesse's Castalian "Chinese House Game" 105 -- Part IV -- Astronomy -- The Divine Signature in Cosmic Harmony 117 -- Cosmic Nesting and Orbiting in Die Harmonie der Welt 123 -- A Planet Unleashed 127 -- The Limits of the Logocentric World View 129 -- Copernican Mobilization: Toward a Holistic Concept 131 -- Five-Step Harmonization in Life and Game 134 -- Part V -- Metaphysics -- The Musical Nature of the World-Soul 141 -- Kepler's Religious Conviction in Life and Opera 147 -- The Spiritual Message in Hindemith's Quotations 152 -- The I Ching in the Life of Joseph Knecht 157 -- Part VI -- Cosmic Harmony and Human Experience -- Cosmic Events and Their Impact on Earth 169 -- Astrology in Hindemith's Opera 175 -- Soul and Society in Die Harmonie der Welt 177 -- Benevolent versus Coercive Applications of Kepler's Harmony 179 -- The Transtemporal Development of a Soul: Knecht's Five Lives 183 -- Part VII -- Art as a Hymn to Universal Harmony -- Human Art: Imitating Nature's Proportions 195 -- Kepler's Poetry and the Meaning of Death 203 -- Edifices of Devotion in Hindemith's Die Harmonie der Welt 207 -- Knecht's Awakening and Death 213 -- Knecht's Poems: Synthesis of a Discursive Glass Bead Game 214 -- Musical (and Game) Notation: Antidotes to Impermanence 219 -- Coda 222 -- Conclusion: Musical Order in the World 223 -- Appendices -- I: Perspectives on the Glass Bead Game 225 -- II: Ancient Chinese Thinkers on Music 233 -- III: Various Instantiations of a Glass Bead Game 238 -- Bibliography 241 -- List of Musical Examples, Figures, and Illustrations 250 -- Index 253 -- About the Author 256 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-251) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Hindemith, Paul, 1895-1963. Harmonie der Welt (Opera)
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Hesse, Hermann, 1877-1962. Glasperlenspiel.
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Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630. Harmonices mundi.
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Hesse, Hermann 1877-1962 Das Glasperlenspiel |
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Hindemith, Paul 1895-1963 Die Harmonie der Welt |
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Kepler, Johannes 1571-1630 Harmonice mundi |
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Hesse, Hermann. Glasperlenspiel. |
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Kepler, Johannes. Harmonice mundi. |
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Hindemith, Paul. Harmonie der Welt. |
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Glasperlenspiel (Hesse, Hermann) fast |
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Harmonices mundi (Kepler, Johannes) fast |
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Harmonie der Welt (Opera) (Hindemith, Paul) fast |
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Music and literature.
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Music and literature
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Harmonie
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Musik
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Welt
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005019274 |
| ISBN |
1576471179 |
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9781576471173 |
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