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Medieval Music, Magical Minds

Author : Mary Devlin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595183719
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Music, Magical Minds written by Mary Devlin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-05-31 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MEDIEVAL MUSIC, MAGICAL MINDS It has only been since the Age of Reason that human beings consider music to be strictly an aesthetic experience. Up until that time, however, music was both intended and designed to have a specific effect upon the mind and emotions of the listener. Religious chant was designed to raise consciousness. Dance music was meant to celebrate fertility, both human and that of the Earth, and to bring earthly joy and ecstasy to those both dancing and listening. This groundbreaking book fulfills two purposes. The first is to introduce interested musicians to the increasingly-popular field of medieval music. The second is to trace the history of all music, as well as its effect upon the level of awareness of the listeners. Internationally-noted soprano Mary Devlin, a great lover of medieval music expounds upon both her studies and her experience with that genre to try to recreate the thoughts and feelings of the people in the Middle Ages who once composed, performed, and lived that music.

Heavenly Harmonies

Author : Mary Devlin
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1257914588
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book Heavenly Harmonies written by Mary Devlin and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the development of harmony in the Middle Ages, including the music, composers, theorists and music theory, musicians, and relevant historical figures, as well as studies of folk music, medieval chant, and polyphony from the days of Gregorian chant to the florid polyphony of the early Renaissance.

Historically Responsive Storytelling

Author : Eleanor Chadwick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000994694
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Historically Responsive Storytelling written by Eleanor Chadwick and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-30 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the notion that the emergent language of contemporary theatre, and more generally of modern culture, has links to much earlier forms of storytelling and an ancient worldview. This volume looks at our diverse and amalgamative theatrical inheritance and discusses various practitioners and companies whose work reflects and recapitulates ideas, approaches, and structures original to theatre’s ritual roots. Drawing together a range of topics and examples from the early Middle Ages to the modern day, Chadwick focuses in on a theatrical language which includes an emphasis on the psychosomatic, the non-linear, the symbolic, the liminal, the collective, and the sacred. This interdisciplinary work draws on approaches from the fields of anthropology, philosophy, historical and cognitive phenomenology, and neuroscience, making the case for the significance of historically responsive modes in theatre practice and more widely in our society and culture. Eleanor

Devon Wakefield

Author : Mary Devlin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595207936
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Devon Wakefield written by Mary Devlin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devon Wakefield only wanted to escape the unwanted attentions of her lustful stepfather. Yet her hiding place proved to be a doorway to a new life. Having inadvertently stumbled onto a convict ship bound for New South Wales in 1787, no one would believe her when she said she didn't belong there. So, like it or not, she was on her way to a new home. On the banks of Sydney Harbor, Devon found strange new animals and people who would become her friends. She learned that she had an extraordinary talent and love for farming. And above all, she discovered the love of her life: Lieutenant Jonathan Lake of His Majesty's Navy. The first few years in Australia brought nothing more pleasant than poverty and starvation. However, as the colony grew more prosperous, so did Devon. Yet as successful as she was as a farmer, Devon's heart was broken. For Jonathan was gone, and she had been forced to marry another man. Sometimes it seemed as though Devon would never find love again-that all life promised her was work, work, and more work. Then, back in London, Jonathan makes a bizarre discovery that sets him and Devon back on the road to reunion and to true love.

The Legend of Good Women

Author : Mary Devlin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595264026
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book The Legend of Good Women written by Mary Devlin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-14 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Chaucer chases two murderers. Overwhelmed and confused, but dtermined to learn the truth, Chaucer cuts through a web of greed, and misguided love before either murder can be brought to justice.

Madame Jane

Author : Mary Devlin
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595265375
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Madame Jane written by Mary Devlin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-01-16 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only life which sixteen-year-old herbalist Jane Dare has ever known suddenly and traumatically vanishes, when a group of renegade knights destroys the convent in which she has grown up and slays everyone who lives there-except herself, the convent infirmarian, and their two patients. The survivors are rescued by two young and ambitious noblemen in the service of King Edward the Fourth, Sir Alan Sanford, and his close friend, Sir John du Fay. Sir Alan is determined to marry a wealthy noblewoman-but his heart decrees otherwise. Captivated by the beautiful herbalist, he fights his attraction to her and loses. She is at his side throughout King Edward's fight for the throne. Yet Alan's ambition gets in the way. Knowing this, Jane, in spite of her love for him, lets him go, and pursues her chosen profession: healing. Alan takes control of vast lands in the north, and they part for several years. Until King Edward dies and leaves his son, a mere boy of thirteen, to inherit the throne-surrounded by enemies. Their mutual concern for the lad and his younger brother brings Jane and Alan together again. But will they be able to save the boys-and still find love once more?

Myth and Magic in Heavy Metal Music

Author : Robert McParland
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476632987
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Myth and Magic in Heavy Metal Music written by Robert McParland and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Myth pervades heavy metal. With visual elements drawn from medieval and horror cinema, the genre’s themes of chaos, dissidence and alienation transmit an image of Promethean rebellion against the conventional. In dialogue with the modern world, heavy metal draws imaginatively on myth and folklore to construct an aesthetic and worldview embraced by a vast global audience. The author explores the music of Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica and many others from a mythological and literary perspective.

The Routledge History of Medieval Magic

Author : Sophie Page
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317042751
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge History of Medieval Magic written by Sophie Page and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge History of Medieval Magic brings together the work of scholars from across Europe and North America to provide extensive insights into recent developments in the study of medieval magic between c.1100 and c.1500. This book covers a wide range of topics, including the magical texts which circulated in medieval Europe, the attitudes of intellectuals and churchmen to magic, the ways in which magic intersected with other aspects of medieval culture, and the early witch trials of the fifteenth century. In doing so, it offers the reader a detailed look at the impact that magic had within medieval society, such as its relationship to gender roles, natural philosophy, and courtly culture. This is furthered by the book’s interdisciplinary approach, containing chapters dedicated to archaeology, literature, music, and visual culture, as well as texts and manuscripts. The Routledge History of Medieval Magic also outlines how research on this subject could develop in the future, highlighting under-explored subjects, unpublished sources, and new approaches to the topic. It is the ideal book for both established scholars and students of medieval magic.

Music in Renaissance Magic

Author : Gary Tomlinson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226807928
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Music in Renaissance Magic written by Gary Tomlinson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Magic enjoyed a vigorous revival in sixteenth-century Europe, attaining a prestige lost for over a millennium and becoming, for some, a kind of universal philosophy. Renaissance music also suggested a form of universal knowledge through renewed interest in two ancient themes: the Pythagorean and Platonic "harmony of the celestial spheres" and the legendary effects of the music of bards like Orpheus, Arion, and David. In this climate, Renaissance philosophers drew many new and provocative connections between music and the occult sciences. In Music in Renaissance Magic, Gary Tomlinson describes some of these connections and offers a fresh view of the development of early modern thought in Italy. Raising issues essential to postmodern historiography—issues of cultural distance and our relationship to the others who inhabit our constructions of the past —Tomlinson provides a rich store of ideas for students of early modern culture, for musicologists, and for historians of philosophy, science, and religion. "A scholarly step toward a goal that many composers have aimed for: to rescue the idea of New Age Music—that music can promote spiritual well-being—from the New Ageists who have reduced it to a level of sonic wallpaper."—Kyle Gann, Village Voice "An exemplary piece of musical and intellectual history, of interest to all students of the Renaissance as well as musicologists. . . . The author deserves congratulations for introducing this new approach to the study of Renaissance music."—Peter Burke, NOTES "Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic: Toward a Historiography of Others examines the 'otherness' of magical cosmology. . . . [A] passionate, eloquently melancholy, and important book."—Anne Lake Prescott, Studies in English Literature

Both from the Ears and Mind

Author : Linda Phyllis Austern
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022670159X
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Both from the Ears and Mind written by Linda Phyllis Austern and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both from the Ears and Mind offers a bold new understanding of the intellectual and cultural position of music in Tudor and Stuart England. Linda Phyllis Austern brings to life the kinds of educated writings and debates that surrounded musical performance, and the remarkable ways in which English people understood music to inform other endeavors, from astrology and self-care to divinity and poetics. Music was considered both art and science, and discussions of music and musical terminology provided points of contact between otherwise discrete fields of human learning. This book demonstrates how knowledge of music permitted individuals to both reveal and conceal membership in specific social, intellectual, and ideological communities. Attending to materials that go beyond music’s conventional limits, these chapters probe the role of music in commonplace books, health-maintenance and marriage manuals, rhetorical and theological treatises, and mathematical dictionaries. Ultimately, Austern illustrates how music was an indispensable frame of reference that became central to the fabric of life during a time of tremendous intellectual, social, and technological change.

The Secret Magic of Music

Author : Ida Lichter
Publisher : SelectBooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1590793234
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Magic of Music written by Ida Lichter and published by SelectBooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2016-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great music has the power to transform. Understanding and appreciating classical music can enlighten, uplift, and educate not only the intellect but the soul. In The Secret Magic of Music, classical music devotee and psychiatrist Ida Lichter uncovers a more accessible side of music. By providing the performers’ insights, Lichter provides a special look into how great music can bring happiness and spiritual meaning to its listeners.

Nine Medieval Romances of Magic

Author : Marijane Osborn
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1551119978
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Nine Medieval Romances of Magic written by Marijane Osborn and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Marijane Osborn translates into modern English nine lively medieval verse romances, in a form that both reflects the original and makes the romances inviting to a modern audience. All nine tales contain elements of magic: shapeshifters, powerful fairies, trees that are portals to another world, and enchanted clothing and armor. Many of the tales also feature powerful women characters, while others include representations of “Saracens.” The tales address issues of enduring interest and concern, and also address sexuality, agency, and identity formation in unexpected ways.

Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time

Author : Albrecht Classen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110556529
Total Pages : 767 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Magic and Magicians in the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Time written by Albrecht Classen and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2017-10-23 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are no clear demarcation lines between magic, astrology, necromancy, medicine, and even sciences in the pre-modern world. Under the umbrella term 'magic,' the contributors to this volume examine a wide range of texts, both literary and religious, both medical and philosophical, in which the topic is discussed from many different perspectives. The fundamental concerns address issue such as how people perceived magic, whether they accepted it and utilized it for their own purposes, and what impact magic might have had on the mental structures of that time. While some papers examine the specific appearance of magicians in literary texts, others analyze the practical application of magic in medical contexts. In addition, this volume includes studies that deal with the rise of the witch craze in the late fifteenth century and then also investigate whether the Weberian notion of disenchantment pertaining to the modern world can be maintained. Magic is, oddly but significantly, still around us and exerts its influence. Focusing on magic in the medieval world thus helps us to shed light on human culture at large.

White Magic & Rituals

Author : Amelia Teije
Publisher : Amelia Teije
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Magic & Rituals written by Amelia Teije and published by Amelia Teije. This book was released on with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: YES! YOU ARE HERE...because a CONNECTION has happened and even if you don't feel READY yet.... you are about to meet MAGIC! If you want to know the secrets and its power KEEP READY Do you want to start practicing magic but don't know where to begin? Do you want a collection of rituals that can transform and improve your life? Do you want to discover how to attract LOVE, HEALTH, MONEY and PROSPERITY? Start discovering the MAGIC in you, discover your essence and connect with your vibrations to elevate your mind. Discover how WHITE MAGIC is a powerful tool for attracting all the positivity in the world around us and will allow you to succeed in all areas of life you desire. In this book you will find: All the secrets to making a ritual really work. You will discover how to channel your inner power to live a full and abundant life. You will learn how to find within yourself the ancient wisdom we all possess, the freedom to make the changes you have always wanted. You will discover how the most important elements of true natural magic work. This book is not a simple book of Magic, but a book that allows both beginners and those who have already experienced White Magic, to learn in a simple and clear way all the techniques to connect with the energy of Mother Nature using her immense power to eliminate all negativity and bring success in your life. You will find many simple and not so simple rituals for LOVE, HOPE, STUDIES, WORK, MONEY, LACK and PROSPERITY, HEALTH, BUSINESS, PROTECTION and RITUALS OF IMPROVEMENT, DISTRUCTION of NEGATIVITY and achieving SUCCESS. You will be taught the proper techniques and how to make them work the right way to channel the power we all have, giving you a full and abundant life. Open up to the Universal Energy and let it take you on this journey that will help you overcome any difficulty and truly take the WORLD completely into your hands by discovering the true Magic we all possess. Everything comes at the right time, it's time to START, CLICK "BUY NOW" don't wait, it's your time.

Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages

Author : Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812203712
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages written by Stephen A. Mitchell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able—and who in some instances thought themselves able—to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less familiar to the nonspecialist, including legal cases, church art, law codes, ecclesiastical records, and runic spells. Mitchell's starting point is the year 1100, by which time Christianity was well established in elite circles throughout Scandinavia, even as some pre-Christian practices and beliefs persisted in various forms. The book's endpoint coincides with the coming of the Reformation and the onset of the early modern Scandinavian witch hunts. The terrain covered is complex, home to the Germanic Scandinavians as well as their non-Indo-European neighbors, the Sámi and Finns, and it encompasses such diverse areas as the important trade cities of Copenhagen, Bergen, and Stockholm, with their large foreign populations; the rural hinterlands; and the insular outposts of Iceland and Greenland. By examining witches, wizards, and seeresses in literature, lore, and law, as well as surviving charm magic directed toward love, prophecy, health, and weather, Mitchell provides a portrait of both the practitioners of medieval Nordic magic and its performance. With an understanding of mythology as a living system of cultural signs (not just ancient sacred narratives), this study also focuses on such powerful evolving myths as those of "the milk-stealing witch," the diabolical pact, and the witches' journey to Blåkulla. Court cases involving witchcraft, charm magic, and apostasy demonstrate that witchcraft ideologies played a key role in conceptualizing gender and were themselves an important means of exercising social control.

Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment

Author : Danijela Kambaskovic
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9401790728
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Conjunctions of Mind, Soul and Body from Plato to the Enlightenment written by Danijela Kambaskovic and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nexus between the corporeal, emotional, spiritual and intellectual aspects of human life as represented in the writing of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Authors from different fields examine not only the question of the body and soul (or body and mind) but also how this question fits into a broader framework in the medieval and early modern period. Concepts such as gender and society, morality, sexuality, theological precepts and medical knowledge are a part of this broader framework. This discussion of ideas draws from over two thousand years of Western thought: from Plato in the fifth century BC and the fourth century Byzantine dialogues on the soul, to the philosophical and medical writings of the early 1700s. There are four sections to this book: each section is based on where the authors have found a conjunction between the body and mind/soul. The work begins with a section on text and self-perception, which focuses on creative output from the period. The second conjunction is human emotions which are described in their social contexts. The third is sex, where the human body and mind are traditionally believed to meet. The fourth section, Material Souls, engages with bodies and other material aspects of existence perceived, studied or utilised as material signs of emotional and spiritual activity.

The Practical Art of Divine Magic

Author : Patrick Dunn
Publisher : Llewellyn Worldwide
ISBN 13 : 0738746312
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (387 download)

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Download or read book The Practical Art of Divine Magic written by Patrick Dunn and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 2015-08-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ancient world of Egypt, Greece, and Rome was home to a set of magical and spiritual technologies, called theurgy, that unite the practice of magic with the aims of religion. Theurgy, or "godwork," is the art of creating a stronger bond between the theurgist and his or her deities. The results of this stronger bond were imminently practical: stronger magic, more meaningful existence, and a better life. With the fall of Rome, these techniques faded into obscurity, and many of them were lost forever. This book revives, restores, and reinvents these practices for a contemporary pagan or magical practitioner. A mixture of scholarly research and examination of source texts and daring experimentation and extrapolation leads to a complete and workable system that can inform a variety of practices, all presented in a relaxed, lighthearted, and readable way. Whether you practice witchcraft, ceremonial magic, or chaos magic, you can benefit from the practice of theurgy. You will learn techniques to create stronger bonds with divine forces, call up and communicate with spiritual beings, summon a magical assistant, create statues imbued with divine spirit, and master your own mind. The ultimate goal is union with the divine, but theurgy is a practical path, and every step on that path is designed to improve your life.