Harmonies Of Heaven And Earth

Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620550954
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmonies of Heaven and Earth written by Joscelyn Godwin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1987-11-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joscelyn Godwin explores music's effects on matter, living things, and human behavior. Turning to metaphysical accounts of the higher worlds and theories of celestial harmony, the author follows the path of musical inspiration on its descent to Earth, illuminating the archetypal currents that lie beneath Western musical history.

Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892811670
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmonies of Heaven and Earth written by Joscelyn Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500014035
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmonies of Heaven and Earth written by Joscelyn Godwin and published by . This book was released on 1987-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Manuel Pedro Ferreira
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789899773219
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Harmonias do céu e da terra written by Manuel Pedro Ferreira and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Joscelyn Godwin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1620550962
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Harmony of the Spheres written by Joscelyn Godwin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1992-11-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor of Music at Colgate University and a widely respected musicologist, Godwin traces the history of the idea, held since ancient times, that the whole cosmos, with its circling planets and stars, is in some way a musical or harmonious entity. The author shows how this concept has continued to inspire philosophers, astronomers, and mystics from antiquity to the present day.

Author : Chenyang Li
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134600488
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Confucian Philosophy of Harmony written by Chenyang Li and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harmony is a concept essential to Confucianism and to the way of life of past and present people in East Asia. Integrating methods of textual exegesis, historical investigation, comparative analysis, and philosophical argumentation, this book presents a comprehensive treatment of the Confucian philosophy of harmony. The book traces the roots of the concept to antiquity, examines its subsequent development, and explicates its theoretical and practical significance for the contemporary world. It argues that, contrary to a common view in the West, Confucian harmony is not mere agreement but has to be achieved and maintained with creative tension. Under the influence of a Weberian reading of Confucianism as "adjustment" to a world with an underlying fixed cosmic order, Confucian harmony has been systematically misinterpreted in the West as presupposing an invariable grand scheme of things that pre-exists in the world to which humanity has to conform. The book shows that Confucian harmony is a dynamic, generative process, which seeks to balance and reconcile differences and conflicts through creativity. Illuminating one of the most important concepts in Chinese philosophy and intellectual history, this book is of interest to students of Chinese studies, history and philosophy in general and eastern philosophy in particular.

Author : Marcel Cobussen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351539116
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thresholds: Rethinking Spirituality Through Music written by Marcel Cobussen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Thresholds Marcel Cobussen rethinks the relationship between music and spirituality. The point of departure is the current movement within contemporary classical music known as New Spiritual Music, with as its main representatives Arvo P John Tavener, and Giya Kancheli. In almost all respects, the musical principles of the new spiritual music seem to be diametrically opposed to those of modernism: repetition and rest versus development and progress, tradition and familiarity versus innovation and experiment, communication versus individualism and conceptualism, tonality versus atonality, and so on. As such, this movement is often considered as part of the much larger complex called postmodernism. Joining in with ideas on spirituality as presented by Michel de Certeau and Mark C. Taylor, Cobussen deconstructs the classification of the 'spiritual dimensions' of music as described above. Thresholds presents an idea of spirituality in and through music that counters strategies of exclusion and mastering of alterity and connects it to wandering, erring, and roving. Using the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Georges Bataille, Jean-Fran‘s Lyotard, Jacques Derrida and others, and analysing the music of John Coltrane, the mythical Sirens, Arvo P and The Eagles (to mention a few), Cobussen regards spirituality as a (non)concept that escapes categorization, classification, and linguistic descriptions. Spirituality is a-topological, non-discursive and a manifestation of 'otherness'. And it is precisely music (or better: listening to music) that induces these thoughts: by carefully encountering, analysing, and evaluating certain examples from classical, jazz, pop and world music it is possible to detach spirituality from concepts of otherworldliness and transcendentalism. Thresholds opens a space in which spirituality can be connected to music that is not commonly considered in this light, thereby enriching the ways of approaching and discussing music. In orde

Author : Jing’ai Wang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031041585
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Geography of Contemporary China written by Jing’ai Wang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-06-28 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook provides a comprehensive and very detailed insight into Chinese Contemporary Geography in English. It documents the geographical issues associated with China's rapid growth. Since initiating the reforms and open policy, China has achieved tremendous success. China's rapid growth is now a driving force in the global economy and is achieving unprecedented rates of poverty reduction. However, China also faces a number of sustainability and emerging challenges associated with rapid growth such as growing regional disparities in terms of per capita income and social-economic development, sustainable resource development, and issues related to regional and global economic integration. In addition, rapid economic growth has also brought about major challenges such as resource shortages, ecological and environmental destruction, land degradation and frequent disasters. This book presents the authors’ reflections. This lavishly illustrated book covers physical geography, history, and economic and political systems of the world's most populous country. The major focus is on geographical issues in China's contemporary development: agriculture, population, urbanization, resource and energy, and environment. The lead author of the book has taught relevant courses in China for three decades, and authored and edited multiple textbooks for Chinese students. This book will appeal to undergraduate students of geography and related disciplines with a regional focus on China and to the general reader who wants to learn different geographical aspects of modern China with little academic background in geography.

Author : Peter MAURICE (D.D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What shall we do with Music? A Letter, etc written by Peter MAURICE (D.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : C S Tang
Publisher : Singing Dragon
ISBN 13 : 0857011154
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mysterious Power of Xingyi Quan written by C S Tang and published by Singing Dragon. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient Chinese martial art of Xingyi Quan is known for its explosive internal power. Closely related to both Taiji Quan and Bagua Quan, Xingyi is regarded as the most esoteric, and the most dangerous of the fighting arts, though the purposes of consistent practice include health and spiritual development. This in-depth guide is the first to cover the history and traditions of the art in such a comprehensive way, describing the essential Xingyi Quan movements, and their effects, in fully illustrated form, and including the author's research with the Song Xingyi Quan clan in China. The book contains a comprehensive teaching guide to the practice of Santi Shr and the Five Element Fists, the core exercises of this potent fighting system, as well as explanations of the underlying principles which give Xingyi Masters their great depth of skill and refined understanding of combat strategy. The reader will also find clearly illustrated teachings of all the Twelve Animal Forms, linking forms, two person sets, basic skills, and the weapons training. This authoritative book will be an illuminating and complete guide for anyone interested in the internal martial arts, especially those practicing or teaching Xingyi Quan or wanting to learn more about it.