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| Introduction | |
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| Preliminary | |
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| What Is Inspiration? | |
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| Preface | |
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| The Problem of Musicality | |
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| The Problems of Pure Music and Soloism | |
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| The Problems of Inspiration and Invention | |
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| Inspired and Uninspired Composers | |
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| The Esoteric Source of This Book | |
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| The Effects of Sound and Music | |
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| Biographical, Analytical, Aesthetical | |
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| The Influence of Genius on Daily Life | |
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| George Frederick Handel and the Victorian Era | |
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| Comparisons between the Influence of Handel and Bach | |
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| Beethoven, Sympathy and Psychoanalysis | |
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| The Mendelssohnian Sympathy | |
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| Fr�d�ric Chopin, the Apostle of Refinement | |
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| Chopin, the Pre-Raphaelites and the Emancipation of Women | |
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| Robert Schumann and the Child-Nature | |
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| The Effects of Wagner's Music | |
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| Richard Strauss and Individualism | |
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| Esoteric Considerations | |
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| The Music of the Deva or Nature-Spirit Evolution | |
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| Musicians and the Higher Powers | |
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| The Occult Constitution of Man | |
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| C�sar Franck, the Bridge between the Humans and the Devas | |
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| Grieg, Tchaikovsky, and Delius | |
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| Debussy and Ravel | |
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| Scriabin, a Deva-Exponent | |
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| The Ultra-Discordants and Their Effects | |
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| Moussorgsky and the Sublimation of Ugliness | |
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| Popular Music and Its Various Effects | |
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| Musicians and Their Subtler Bodies | |
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| Historical | |
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| Melody and Harmony from Pre-Egyptian Times to Nineteenth-Century England | |
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| The Beginnings of Music and Religion | |
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| Effects of Music on the Indian People | |
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| The Music and Character of the Ancient Egyptians | |
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| The Greeks and Their Music | |
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| The Romans and Their Music | |
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| Effects of Descant and the Folk Song | |
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| Polyphony and Its Effects | |
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| Music and the Reformation | |
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| The Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | |
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| A Cursory View of Musical Effects in England from the Pre-Elizabethan Days to Those of Handel | |
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| Some Occult Prognostications | |
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| Toward Beauty and Mystery | |
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| The Music of the Future | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |