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Title: Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness by Alain Danielou ISBN: 0-89281-336-9 Publisher: Inner Traditions Intl Ltd Pub. Date: December, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95

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Summary: Stimulating polemics by a pioneer ethnomusicologist
Comment: Danielou was a Frenchman who spent two decades in India studying the vina. This book, a revision of the 1946 "Introduction to Musical Scales," compares the basic scale structures of India, China, and ancient Greece, relating each to the philosophical worldview of its parent culture. In a nutshell, he finds Chinese and Indian music to be equally profound but utterly dissimilar, and Greek music to be a confused merging of the two. Modern Western music, because it is based on the flawed Greek system, he finds decadent--capable of moving the listener, but only by overcomplicated means in comparison especially to the directness of Indian classical music. WARNING: Though a Frenchman, Danielou wrote this book in his idiosyncratic English. Be prepared for some puzzling passages.

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