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Book Synopsis The Sounds of Stonehenge by : Stephen Banfield
Download or read book The Sounds of Stonehenge written by Stephen Banfield and published by BAR British Series. This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume takes an unusual angle on Britain's most famous prehistoric monument, sound and music. It is in two halves, the first examining the archaeoacoustics of Stonehenge, and exporing the anthropology of prehistoric music, the second the legacy, reception and appropriation of Stonehenge by modern musicians from the serious (John Ireland) to the ridiculous (Spinal Tap).
Book Synopsis Sacred Space, Sacred Sound by : Susan Elizabeth Hale
Download or read book Sacred Space, Sacred Sound written by Susan Elizabeth Hale and published by Quest Books. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visionary singer Susan Hale believes that early peoples deliberately built their structures to enhance natural vibrations. She takes us around the globe-from Stonehenge and New Grange to Gothic cathedrals and Tibetan stupas in New Mexico-to explore the acoustics of sacred places. But, she says, you don't have to go to the Taj Mahal: The sacred is all around us, and we are all sound chambers resonating with the One Song.
Book Synopsis The Ancient Language of Sacred Sound by : David Elkington
Download or read book The Ancient Language of Sacred Sound written by David Elkington and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • Details how sacred sites resonate at the same frequencies as both the Earth and the alpha waves of the human brain • Shows how human writing in its original hieroglyphic form was a direct response to the divine sound patterns of sacred sites • Explains how ancient hero myths from around the world relate to divine acoustic science and formed the source of religion The Earth resonates at an extremely low frequency. Known as “the Schumann Resonance,” this natural rhythm of the Earth precisely corresponds with the human brain’s alpha wave frequencies--the frequency at which we enter into and come out of sleep as well as the frequency of deep meditation, inspiration, and problem solving. Sound experiments reveal that sacred sites and structures like stupas, pyramids, and cathedrals also resonate at these special frequencies when activated by chanting and singing. Did our ancestors build their sacred sites according to the rhythms of the Earth? Exploring the acoustic connections between the Earth, the human brain, and sacred spaces, David Elkington shows how humanity maintained a direct line of communication with Mother Earth and the Divine through the construction of sacred sites, such as Stonehenge, Newgrange, Machu Picchu, Chartres Cathedral, and the pyramids of both Egypt and Mexico. He reveals how human writing in its original hieroglyphic form was a direct response to the divine sound patterns of sacred sites, showing how, for example, recognizable hieroglyphs appear in sand patterns when the sacred frequencies of the Great Pyramid are activated. Looking at ancient hero legends--those about the bringers of important knowledge or language--Elkington explains how these myths form the source of ancient religion and have a unique mythological resonance, as do the sites associated with them. The author then reveals how religion, including Christianity, is an ancient language of acoustic science given expression by the world’s sacred sites and shows that power places played a profound role in the development of human civilization.
Book Synopsis Stone Age Soundtracks by : Paul Devereux
Download or read book Stone Age Soundtracks written by Paul Devereux and published by Collins & Brown. This book was released on 2001 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Stone Age ancestors sang and played instruments, and ascribed magical qualities to many sounds. Exciting research—known as acoustic archaeology—has reconstructed this vanished aspect, and this new knowledge exposes both the origins of music and a lost world where echoes were considered spirit voices. Travel from chambered mounds in Ireland to French paleolithic caves, and listen to the past once more.
Download or read book Megalithomania written by John Michell and published by Ingram. This book was released on 2007-04-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A feast of extraordinary theories and personalities centred around the mysterious standing stones of antiquity. John Michell tells the incredible story of the amazing reactions, ancient and modern, to these prehistoric relics, whether astronomical, legendary, mystical or visionary.
Book Synopsis The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by : Trevor Cox
Download or read book The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World written by Trevor Cox and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A lucid and passionate case for a more mindful way of listening. . . . Anyone who has ever clapped, hollered or yodeled at an echo will delight in [Cox’s] zestful curiosity.”—New York Times Trevor Cox is on a hunt for the sonic wonders of the world. A renowned expert who engineers classrooms and concert halls, Cox has made a career of eradicating bizarre and unwanted sounds. But after an epiphany in the London sewers, Cox now revels in exotic noises—creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, humming dunes, seals that sound like alien angels, and a Mayan pyramid that chirps like a bird. With forays into archaeology, neuroscience, biology, and design, Cox explains how sound is made and altered by the environment, how our body reacts to peculiar noises, and how these mysterious wonders illuminate sound’s surprising dynamics in everyday settings—from your bedroom to the opera house. The Sound Book encourages us to become better listeners in a world dominated by the visual and to open our ears to the glorious cacophony all around us.
Book Synopsis Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies by : Lynne Kelly
Download or read book Knowledge and Power in Prehistoric Societies written by Lynne Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of formal knowledge systems in small-scale oral cultures in both historic and archaeological contexts.
Book Synopsis Secrets of Stonehenge by : Mick Manning
Download or read book Secrets of Stonehenge written by Mick Manning and published by Frances Lincoln Children's Books. This book was released on 2014-04-24 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was this amazing monument erected? How did our Stone-Age ancestors bring such massive stones to the site from so far away? How did they raise the enormous stones to their upright positions? What was Stonehenge used for, and who lived around the site? With captions and pictures, and using up-to-the-minute research discoveries, Mick Manning and Brita Granström tell the incredible true story of this awe-inspiring monument – one of the greatest ancient sites in the world.
Book Synopsis If Stones Could Speak by : Marc Aronson
Download or read book If Stones Could Speak written by Marc Aronson and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the mysterious monument of Stonehenge and reveals some of its secrets and history.
Book Synopsis The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination by : Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Imagination written by Mark Grimshaw-Aagaard and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-26 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether social, cultural, or individual, the act of imagination always derives from a pre-existing context. For example, we can conjure an alien's scream from previously heard wildlife recordings or mentally rehearse a piece of music while waiting for a train. This process is no less true for the role of imagination in sonic events and artifacts. Many existing works on sonic imagination tend to discuss musical imagination through terms like compositional creativity or performance technique. In this two-volume Handbook, contributors shift the focus of imagination away from the visual by addressing the topic of sonic imagination and expanding the field beyond musical compositional creativity and performance technique into other aural arenas where the imagination holds similar power. Topics covered include auditory imagery and the neurology of sonic imagination; aural hallucination and illusion; use of metaphor in the recording studio; the projection of acoustic imagination in architectural design; and the design of sound artifacts for cinema and computer games.
Book Synopsis The Stonehenge Scrolls by : K. P. Robbins
Download or read book The Stonehenge Scrolls written by K. P. Robbins and published by Museitup Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Stonehenge Scrolls Historical Fiction by K.P. Robbins Who built Stonehenge and why? Eleven ancient scrolls unearthed near Dublin purport to reveal the answers in this archaeology-based novel. You'll meet Myrddin, a prehistoric engineer as hard as the stones he struggles to move except when it comes to his red-haired daughter Sulis; the clan medicine woman Ogwyn, Sulis' grandmother; and the impetuous young chieftain Gwyr. But is the story they tell true? In alternating chapters of The Stonehenge Scrolls, archaeologist Maeve Haley's blog cites the evidence and speculates on the meaning of Stonehenge. "How did the Stonehenge monuments come to be? Plenty of nonfiction titles discuss possibilities, but for a fictional perspective that is compelling and involving, you can't beat the thrills and unusual perspectives of The Stonehenge Scrolls." --Midwest Book Review "I love this book. After years of her own fascination and study of the subject, Robbins makes this shrouded mystery of the past come alive. It's a great read."--accentBritain.com Rated Four Stars by Amazon Reader Reviews
Book Synopsis Re-Mapping Archaeology by : Mark Gillings
Download or read book Re-Mapping Archaeology written by Mark Gillings and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maps have always been a fundamental tool in archaeological practice, and their prominence and variety have increased along with a growing range of digital technologies used to collect, visualise, query and analyse spatial data. However, unlike in other disciplines, the development of archaeological cartographical critique has been surprisingly slow; a missed opportunity given that archaeology, with its vast and multifaceted experience with space and maps, can significantly contribute to the field of critical mapping. Re-mapping Archaeology thinks through cartographic challenges in archaeology and critiques the existing mapping traditions used in the social sciences and humanities, especially since the 1990s. It provides a unique archaeological perspective on cartographic theory and innovatively pulls together a wide range of mapping practices applicable to archaeology and other disciplines. This volume will be suitable for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as for established researchers in archaeology, geography, anthropology, history, landscape studies, ethnology and sociology.
Book Synopsis The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World by : Trevor Cox
Download or read book The Sound Book: The Science of the Sonic Wonders of the World written by Trevor Cox and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A professor of acoustic engineering provides a tour of the world's most amazing sound phenomena, including creaking glaciers, whispering galleries, stalactite organs, musical roads, humming dunes, seals that sound like alien angels, and a Mayan pyramid that chirps like a bird.
Download or read book Sonic Wonderland written by Trevor J. Cox and published by Arrow. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranging across an array of realms including literature, classical music, history, archaeology, psychology, neuroscience, geology, physics, biology and ecology, this book tours the world's most amazing acoustic phenomena and the sometimes even stranger people behind them - and pleas for a deeper appreciation and respect for our shared sonic landscapes.
Download or read book Shadowbahn written by Steve Erickson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "When the Twin Towers suddenly reappear in the Badlands of South Dakota, twenty years after their fall, nobody can explain their return. To the tens of thousands drawn to the 'American Stonehenge' - including Parker and Zema, siblings driving from LA to Michigan - the towers seem to sing, even though everybody hears a different song. And on the ninety-third floor of the South Tower, Jesse Presley, the stillborn twin of the most famous singer who ever lived, suddenly awakens. Over the days and months and years to come, he's driven mad by a voice in his head that sounds like his but isn't, and by the memory of a country where he survived in his brother's place." -- Back cover.
Download or read book Stone Age written by Clint Twist and published by Sounds of the Past. This book was released on 2012 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone Age takes readers back to the dawn of humankind. Impressive pop-ups of a mammoth hunt, a campfire gathering, a limestone cavern with cave-painters and flickering torches, village life, and the building of Stonehenge are accompanied by the sounds of prehistoric animals, grunting cavemen and primal drumbeats.
Book Synopsis Standing with Stones by : Rupert Soskin
Download or read book Standing with Stones written by Rupert Soskin and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ireland.
