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Through Music to the Self
Contents
Introduction
1 Old and New Paths in Western Music
On Contemporary Musical Awareness
Approaches to Composition
European Musical Culture
American Composers
Bartok and Orff
Music as a Mirror of Angst
Messiaen and Stockhausen
Group-Improvisation and Intuitive Music Making
Experimental Music
Improvisation Models
Psychedelic Music
The Drug Fraud
2 Encounter with Non-European Music
Indian Classical Music
Raga
Rasa
Tala
Indian Musical Studies
A Singing Sadhu on the Ganges
Tibetan Ritual Music
The Instruments
Chanting
Music of Magical Consciousness
The Drum of the Shamans
The Significance of the Drum
Ecstatic Chant in Persia and Mongolia
The Instruments of the Islamic Calling
Indonesian Gamelan Music
Music in China and Japan
Rhythmic Aspects
3 The Esoteric World of Sound and Research into Harmonics
On the Knowledge of the Ancients
Experiments with the Monochord
The Harmonic Series
The Formants
Electronic Sound-production
Harmonics and Science
The Meaning of Mantra
Syllables and Words
The Human Organism and its Acoustic Laws
Analogies between Man and the World of Sounds
Tone-Colour as the Vehicle of the Spiritual
4 Music Between the Worlds
Musical Meditation in the West
Spiritual Jazz
The Meditative Wave
Meditation and Electronics
‘Periodic Music’ and ‘Minimal Music’
Terry Riley
American ‘minimal music’
Concentric and Integral Music (Author’s Compositions)
Dharana
Dhyana
Samma Samadhi
Ananda
Hari Om Tat Sat
Continuous Creation
Diaphainon
Maitreya
5 Social Practice and Exercise Methods
The Healing Effect of Music
Music versus Drug Addiction
Music for Relaxation
The Power of Breath and Voice
Exercises in Breathing
Sounded Breathing: Vowel-Improvization
Finding Your Own Note
Mandra-Sadhana
Nada-Yoga
The Technique of Nada-Yoga according to Swami Satyananda
Experimental Theatre and Collective Self-Experience
Collective Self-Experience
Individual exercises for all to practise together
Exercises with partner
The whole group in a circle
Group-exercises
Prospect
Appendices
Texts
The Spring and Autumn of Lü Bu Ve
Hazrat Inayat Khan: On Music
Musical Examples and Illustrations
Bibliography
Selection of Recorded Music