Sémantique musicale – Bilingual French–English Edition: An Essay on Auditory Psychophysiology

Bilingual French–English edition

Is there a tonal language through which we hear, perceive and recognise musical chords, ultimately resonating with their harmonies?

This is what Alain Daniélou asserts, drawing on the Indian model of the 22 shrutis, those famous natural intervals, “the ones we hear”, which are also said to “speak for themselves”, and which, when offered to our ears, reveal to us the essence of the mystical colours of the ragas.

This book opens our minds to a quantum-level reflection on the question of the origins within us of this language of sound – a mirror of the soul, which, through the slightest vibrations of the air, touches us so deeply: music…

Two musical instruments have been crafted in accordance with Alain Daniélou’s theory as set out in this book.

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