Sacred Music: Its Origins, Powers, and Future: Traditional Music in Today's World
Danielou, Alain
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Book ID : 16887
ISBN-10 : 81-86569-33-2 / 8186569332
ISBN-13 : 978-81-86569-33-7 / 9788186569337
Place
of Publication :
Varanasi
Year
of Publication :
2003
Edition :
Language : English
224p., 23 cm.
CONTENTS
DESCRIPTION
What is modal music? Why did the ancients consider music the key of sciences, related to metaphysics? Are there many "music", as there many languages? Is there a relation between Indian music, Jazz, cante jondo, Gregorian chant? How should we understand African music? What are the relations between music and religion? And between music and magic, or therapy? This collection of texts, covering a wide range of subjects, concerns the amateur music lover as well as the professional musician. The renowned musicologist Alain Danielou here explains clearly and simply the profound concepts relating music to its essential roots. "Tradition is inevitably the basis on which innovations can develop. Change, if it results in the loss of tradition, is more often than not a loss rather than a gain." "People who lose their language and their music cease to exist as a cultural and national entity and have no further contribution to make to world cultrue."