McIntosh Rivers of Sacred Sound

Chant
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78874-441-6
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 10, 196 Seiten

Reihe: Music and Spirituality

Rivers of Sacred Sound traces the flow of influences from East to West, from

BC to AD and from wordless jubilations to the setting of texts. It takes the

discussion about western chant beyond a European perspective.

The text of this book, preceded by an introduction, is presented in seven

chapters and covers a period of approximately five thousand years. There are

many references all over the world to praising the divine with sound. Thus

the starting point is the praise song, a fundamental impulse in mankind. The

Rg-Veda requests that our loudest-sounding hymn be accepted, as food most

delightful to the Gods. The Psalms request us to make a joyful noise unto God

and to sing forth the honour of His name. Spontaneous songs became ritual

events. In an aural culture what was the role of gesture and what is its role

now? There are many doors to open in pursuing these and other questions.

This book opens some of them.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McIntosh, Solveig

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Volksmusik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Geistliche Musik, Religiöse Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

List of Figures vii

List of Musical Examples ix

Preface xiii

Notation and Script xvii

Acknowledgements xix

Introduction 1

chapter 1

Historical Background 5

chapter 2

Language 17

chapter 3

Scale and Mode 49

chapter 4

Recitation, Psalmody and Silence 89

chapter 5

Alan4kaaras and Neumes 101

chapter 6

Rhythm in Chant 129

vi

chapter 7

The Hand: Mudraas and Cheironomy 137

Epilogue 153

Glossary 155

Bibliography 163

Index 169

Über Autor(innen)

SOLVEIG MCINTOSH is a musician and research scholar in the musical traditions

of Northern India. She qualified as a teacher in the 1970s and completed her

Doctoral studies in 1993. She has given talks in Britain, Holland, New Zealand

and India and has contributed articles to various books and journals. As well

as publishing a book, Hidden Faces of Ancient Indian Song, she has produced a

DVD, Ancient Indian Song, and three CDs, Traditional Vedic Invocations, Hymns

of the Vedas and Sanskrit Songs to the Divine. She has given workshops both in

Britain and abroad.