Explorations in Music and Esotericism

LEONARD GEORGE is Faculty Emeritus, Department of Psychology, Capilano University, North Vancouver, British Columbia. MARJORIE ROTH is professor of music history and studio flute at Nazareth College, Rochester, NY.

• ForewordJoscelyn GodwinAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Muzzled MuseLeonard George and Marjorie Roth*Part One: Esotericism as a Form of Thought1. The Hermaphroditic Nature of the mi-fa ComplexAdam Bregman2. Athanasius Kircher and the Nature of Ecstatic ListeningCharles Brewer3. Claude Bragdon's Images of the Seven Degrees of the ScaleJoscelyn Godwin4. Music Analysis as Esoteric Activity: Viktor Zuckerkandl at EranosDaphne Tan* *Part Two: Esotericism as the Keeping and Revealing of Secrets5. Concealment Revealed: Sound and Symbol in Ockeghem's Missa Quinti toni and Missa ProlationumAdam Knight Gilbert6. Air and Eros: Musician as Demiurge in Renaissance MagicLeonard George7. "De septenario illo et sacro numero": The Divine Septenarius in Baryphonus and Grimm's Pleiades musicaeBenjamin Dobbs8. The Hoard and the Grail: A Wagnerian Conspiracy in Five PartsWoodrow Steinken* * *Part Three: Esotericism as an Identity9. Tommaso Campanella, the Barberini Palace, and the Soul's Perception of MusicVirginia Christy Lamothe10. Sonic Symbolism: Matthew Cooke's Music for the Scottish Rite Craft DegreesAndrew Owen11. New American Eden: Katherine Tingley in LomalandChristopher M. Scheer12. Theosophy and the Esoteric Roots of Sun Ra's AfrofuturismAnna Gawboy* * * *Part Four: Esotericism as a Signifier13. "Im Himmel und auf Erden": Geometry, Alchemy, and Rosicrucian Symbol in Buxtehude's Herr, wenn ich nur dich hab' (BUXWV 38)Malachai Komanoff Bandy14. (In)Audible Sound and Spiritualist AcoustemologiesCodee Ann Spinner15. As Above, So Below: Magic Squares and Immutable Laws of Nature in Webern's Opus 24Elizabeth Abbate16. The Osiris-Light in Nino Rota's MusicPasquale GiaquintoContributors to This VolumeIndex

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.