Chemistry, physics, metaphysics, and mathematics. According to Lucas (1854), musicians, too ignorant to go beyond convention, have tied themselves hand and foot to mathematics. If today it is normal for us to depend on the dictatorship of calculation and analysis, it was misleading for the ancients.
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Louis Lucas, l’Acoustique Nouvelle or the New Acoustic: preface
My translation of l’Acoustic Nouvelle by Louis Lucas. The preface by Théodore de Banville is cultured and full-bodied, as befits 1854. And as typical of the time, it is also full of unnecessary words.
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What has survived the ancient wisdom of sound rites in artistic music, or rather entertainment? According to musicologist Marius Schneider, very little. Very little is also left in the so-called “religious ceremony music”, especially western one. But, somewhere still remain attempts to restore the private channel between heaven and earth. Maybe imitating the sounds of nature. Schneider tells us that it was typical of ancient Egyptian priests to imitate the sounds of birds or other animals.
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Souls need the help of the living to succeed in retracing the path of the acoustic world. Music corresponds to heaven; rituals correspond to earth. Marius Schneider’s extraordinary journey into the mythology of sound continues.
[Read more…] about Marius Schneider’s “the Primitive Music”: 7, Only Music Makes Ceremonies EffectiveMarius Schneider’s “the Primitive Music”: 6 Cosmos and Individual Chant
Individual chants were meant to mimic the sounds of nature and other animals and songs as emblems. The journey of musicologist Marius Schneider continues in the world of musical mythology and rituals.
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To awaken and create divinities one needs to offer them their favorite sound, also called libation. Schneider’s surprising journey into ancestral rites and myths continue, where sound is increasingly the protagonist.
[Read more…] about Marius Schneider’s “the Primitive Music”: 5 Through Music, Humankind Imitates the GodsAtorène: Fire and Weights in Canseliet’s Last Cooking
Canseliet dared to publish his secret correspondence to a friend on the whistles emitted by his Egg. Atorène, in “Le Laboratoire Alchimique” 1981, analyzes the musical proportions of the Egg densities, comparing them to a musical organ. The graphs are my work, for a better understanding.
[Read more…] about Atorène: Fire and Weights in Canseliet’s Last CookingMarius Schneider’s “the Primitive Music”: 4 Acoustic Nature of Bonds between Gods and Men
The gods cannot ignore the sound sacrifices that men offer them because these rites touch the very substance of the immortals. They are obliged to participate in it.
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