Music and the Power of Sound: The Influence of Tuning and Interval on Consciousness

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By Alain Daniélou

Publisher : Inner Traditions/Bear & Company

ABOUT Alain Daniélou

Alain Daniélou
Alain Daniélou (1907-1994) spent more than 15 years in the traditional society of India, using only the Sanskrit and Hindi languages and studying music and philosophy with eminent scholars. He was duly initiated into esoteric Shaivism, which gave him unusual access to texts transmitte More...

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An accomplished musician and Hindu scholar looks to the harmonic ratios of ancient China, India and Greece as he explores the power of music to speak to our higher consciousness.
"With his fierce, global intelligence, Alain Danielou was the first to wake up the West to the universality of musical harmony and its potential for planetary consciousness."
W.A. Mathieu, author of The Listening Book and The Musical Life

"Our debt to his scholarship and humanity is immeasurable."
The Times Literary Supplement