OF THE ESSENCE OF MUSIC - ERNST HAGEMANN

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This delicate and painstaking work by Ernst Hagemann finds and comments on every thought that Rudolf Steiner said and wrote about music in his conferences and in his books and in an organic and commendable way gives us one of the best musical and spiritual treatises that exists today, showing us a Another key to understanding which highlights the spiritual creative sense of music.

INDEX

Preface to the Italian Edition 7

Preface 11

I. Essence of the musical 17

I.1. Overall 17

I.2. The Harmonies of the Spheres 19

I.3. Earthly music 29

I.4. a) During the evolution of humanity 31

I.4. b) 1. In general 46

I.4. b) 2. The experience of the sleep of harmonies

of 50 spheres

I.4. b) 3. Ear – Listening 54

I.4. b) 4. Interval – Experiences 62

I.4. b) 5. Melodies – Harmonies – Rhythm 71

I.4. b) 6. Contrasounds 75

I.5. Relationship between the musical and the breathing process 76

I.6. Musical memory 80

I.7. The deeper meaning of major and minor 80

I.8. The inner experience of music after death 81

II. Integration of musical phenomena into the activity

of spiritual entities 87

II.1. Overall 87

II.2. Activities of the spheres of the entities of the Hierarchies 89

II.2. a) Zodiac – Shade 89

II.2. b) Planets – Fundamental notes 93

II.2. c) Cooperation of the zodiacal and planetary spheres

in the harmonies of the spheres 94

II.2. d) Intervals 101

II.3. a) Perception of sounds 106

II.3. b) Sense of hearing 109

II.4. Elementary entities as helpers in experience

musical 110

II.4. a) In general 110

II.4. b) Undines and Sylphs 114

II.4. c) Images contrasted with the Undines

and to the Sylphs 117

II.5 Influence of the content of the musical performance

on the nature of elementary beings as helpers 119

II.6 The perceptive act as a source of reception

of elementary entities 120

III. Musical creations – Composers 123

III.1. Musical Creations 123

III.2. Composers 125

III.3. Compositions 130

IV. Musical performance of compositions 133

IV.1. Through song 133

IV.2. Through musical eurythmy 136

IV.2. a) In general 136

IV.2. b) Sound eurythmy 138

IV.3. Recorded music 143

V. Cult music 153

YOU. Musical instruments 155

VI.1. Of essence and activity

of musical instruments 155

YOU. 2. Importance of rosin for sound quality

of stringed instruments 165

VII. Music pedagogy 169

VIII. Acoustics 175

IX. Importance of music in the future 177

X. Final consideration 189

XI. Afterword – The problematic of “New music” 195

XII. Bibliography 197

1. Works of Rudolf Steiner 197

2. Lectures by Rudolf Steiner 197

3. Works by other authors 202

Keyword Index 205