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Rivers of Sacred Sound: Music and Spirituality

Autor Solveig McIntosh
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 oct 2019
Rivers of Sacred Sound traces the flow of influences from East to West, from BC to AD and from wordless jubilations to the setting of texts. It takes the discussion about western chant beyond a European perspective. The text of this book, preceded by an introduction, is presented in seven chapters and covers a period of approximately five thousand years. There are many references all over the world to praising the divine with sound. Thus the starting point is the praise song, a fundamental impulse in mankind. The Rg-Veda requests that our loudest-sounding hymn be accepted, as food most delightful to the Gods. The Psalms request us to make a joyful noise unto God and to sing forth the honour of His name. Spontaneous songs became ritual events. In an aural culture what was the role of gesture and what is its role now? There are many doors to open in pursuing these and other questions. This book opens some of them.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781788744393
ISBN-10: 178874439X
Pagini: 196
Dimensiuni: 150 x 225 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Peter Lang Copyright AG
Seria Music and Spirituality


Notă biografică

SOLVEIG MCINTOSH is a musician and research scholar in the musical traditions of Northern India. She qualified as a teacher in the 1970s and completed her Doctoral studies in 1993. She has given talks in Britain, Holland, New Zealand and India and has contributed articles to various books and journals. As well as publishing a book, Hidden Faces of Ancient Indian Song, she has produced a DVD, Ancient Indian Song, and three CDs, Traditional Vedic Invocations, Hymns of the Vedas and Sanskrit Songs to the Divine. She has given workshops both in Britain and abroad.

Cuprins

Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Musical Examples ix
Preface xiii
Notation and Script xvii
Acknowledgements xix
Introduction 1
chapter 1
Historical Background 5
chapter 2
Language 17
chapter 3
Scale and Mode 49
chapter 4
Recitation, Psalmody and Silence 89
chapter 5
Alan4kaaras and Neumes 101
chapter 6
Rhythm in Chant 129
vi
chapter 7
The Hand: Mudraas and Cheironomy 137
Epilogue 153
Glossary 155
Bibliography 163
Index 169

Descriere

The text of this book, preceded by an introduction, is presented in seven chapters and covers a period of approximately five thousand years. In an aural culture what was the role of gesture and what is its role now? There are many doors to open in pursuing these and other questions. This book opens some of them.