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Contents:
- The Mleccha's Exercise Books by/Jacques Cloarec
- Alain Danielou and the musical renaissance/Jean-Louis Gabin
- The Origins of the Musical Languages:
- The origins of sacred music
- Symbolism in the musical theories of the orient
- The magic of sound
- Magic and pop music.
- Tradition and Modernity:
- Tradition and innovation
- Modal music and harmonic music
- Can harmony be introduced in Indian music?
- Harmonic aggression
- The musical cultures of the east in the face of western hegemony
- Musical nationalism and universal music
- The musical languages of Black Africa
- The impact of writing and recording on musical creativity
- Music in the modern word
- Music and meditation
- The Sources of Future:
- Music, an international language?
- Popular religious music in the twentieth century
- The training of professional musicians
- Improvisation
- Basic elements in the vocabulary of sound
- Comparative musicology: principles, problems, methods
- Categories of intervals or Sruti-Jatis
- Elements of the formation of scales
- Mantra, principles of language and music according to the Hindu mythology
- Publication of Sanskrit treatises.
What is modal music? Why did the ancients consider music the key of sciences, related to metaphysics? Are there many "musics", as there are 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.
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