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Music and Spirituality: Part 2

Thursday, July 23, 2009

This is a follow-up to Sonali and Anish’s posts.
If all art aspires to the condition of music, all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics,” Santayana wrote. What makes music and math so special? Math is unique among the sciences in that it describes itself. If we want to draw conclusions (theorems) about objects in [...]

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The Three Gunas in Music

Saturday, June 13, 2009

In Chapter Fourteen of the Bhagavad-Gita, Krishna talks to Arjuna about the three gunas — Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. These gunas can be most simply described as three types of characteristics a person can adopt into his or her lifestyle. In one of my past posts, Chapter 14: Discrimination of the Three Gunas, I had [...]

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Music and spirituality

Friday, May 8, 2009

For Soundscapes, a music anthropology class I am taking, I recently wrote a paper exploring the role of emotion and devotion in why Carnatic musicians decide to play and sing. The lyrics of most Carnatic music songs are inherently spiritual, written in praise of various Gods and Goddesses — and writing the paper really made [...]

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