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Gamelan is the traditional music of the Indonesian islands of Java and Bali. The day Claude Debussy heard Javanese music at the Paris exhibition in 1889 seems to have been the beginning of 20th century music. The acceleration of communications and cultural...
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The Hungarian composer and musicologist László Hortobágyi undertook his first expedition to northern India to make musical recordings, study philosophical and musicological sources, and pursue practical studies. As a child, László dreamed of interacting with...
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The two rites are changes in the state of being, from a symbolic death leading to rebirth. These are changes of state and not of degree. They are part of long traditions, but can be accomplished freely and individually. Rites of passage are changes in social status...
by | | Nature & cosmos
“A single system of celestial metaphors is found in every sacred text and tradition, from Australia to Africa, from the Americas to the Pacific Islands and ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon, ancient Greece, ancient China, ancient Japan, ancient India , and testaments...
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Judgment and discernment are both created by our mental faculties. These are psychic acts through which we look at the world. The judgment is relative and aesthetic: of beauty or ugliness, of good or bad… It has a scope of positioning, classification, hierarchy....
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