Explorations in Music and Esotericism: Eastman Studies in Music

Foreword Joscelyn Godwin Acknowledgments Introduction: The Muzzled Muse Leonard George and Marjorie Roth * Part One: Esotericism as a Form of Thought 1. The Hermaphroditic Nature of the mi-fa Complex Adam Bregman 2. Athanasius Kircher and the Nature of Ecstatic Listening Charles Brewer 3. Claude Bragdon's Images of the Seven Degrees of the Scale Joscelyn Godwin 4. Music Analysis as Esoteric Activity: Viktor Zuckerkandl at Eranos Daphne Tan * * Part Two: Esotericism as the Keeping and Revealing of Secrets 5. Concealment Revealed: Sound and Symbol in Ockeghem's Missa Quinti toni and Missa Prolationum Adam Knight Gilbert 6. Air and Eros: Musician as Demiurge in Renaissance Magic Leonard George 7. "De septenario illo et sacro numero": The Divine Septenarius in Baryphonus and Grimm's Pleiades musicae Benjamin Dobbs 8. The Hoard and the Grail: A Wagnerian Conspiracy in Five Parts Woodrow Steinken * * * Part Three: Esotericism as an Identity 9. Tommaso Campanella, the Barberini Palace, and the Soul's Perception of Music Virginia Christy Lamothe 10. Sonic Symbolism: Matthew Cooke's Music for the Scottish Rite Craft Degrees Andrew Owen 11. New American Eden: Katherine Tingley in Lomaland Christopher M. Scheer 12. Theosophy and the Esoteric Roots of Sun Ra's Afrofuturism Anna Gawboy * * * * Part Four: Esotericism as a Signifier 13. "Im Himmel und auf Erden": Geometry, Alchemy, and Rosicrucian Symbol in Buxtehude's Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab' (BUXWV 38) Malachai Komanoff Bandy 14. (In)Audible Sound and Spiritualist Acoustemologies Codee Ann Spinner 15. As Above, So Below: Magic Squares and Immutable Laws of Nature in Webern's Opus 24 Elizabeth Abbate 16. The Osiris-Light in Nino Rota's Music Pasquale Giaquinto Contributors to This Volume Index