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29.01.2023

“Protection & Reversal Magick: A Witch’s Defense Manual” by Jason Miller (2023 revised and updated edition)

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🕵️🐷🕵️ zero-day🕵️🐷🕵️ "Everyone, whether they practice witchcraft or not, is susceptible to unwanted spells and curses. The difference is that witches and magicians can do something about it. Now you can too. Protection & Reversal Magick is a complete how-to guide to preventing, defending, and reversing magical attacks of any kind. Here, renowned scholar and magick practitioner Jason Miller shows readers how to: Set up early-warning systems Appease angry spirits through offerings Perform banishings and make amulets that will prevent most attacks Make magical “decoys” to absorb attacks against you Summon guardian spirits or gods for help ...>>

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29.01.2023

“How Music Works: The Science and Psychology of Beautiful Sounds, from Beethoven to the Beatles and Beyond” by John Powell

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"What makes a musical note different from any other sound? How can you tell if you have perfect pitch? Why do ten violins sound only twice as loud as one? Do your Bob Dylan albums sound better on CD vinyl? John Powell, a scientist and musician, answers these questions and many more in How Music Works, an intriguing and original guide to acoustics. In a clear and engaging voice, Powell leads you on a fascinating journey through the world of music, with lively discussions of the secrets behind harmony timbre, keys, chords, loudness, musical composition, and more. From how musical notes came to be (you can thank a group of stodgy men in 1939...>>

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29.01.2023

“Emotion in Life & Music: A New Science” by M. Zachary Johnson

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"What does it mean for music to be emotional? How can these mysterious feelings be understood and validated? Some modern thinkers, unable to find an answer, have gone so far as to declare that music must be pure form, without emotion. Yet philosophers from Confucius to Plato and Aristotle, religious traditions from Hinduism and Buddhism to Christianity, all regarded music as a profound form of moral-emotional training. Can we link the ancient spiritual purposes of music to our modern secular and scientific understanding of man? This book argues we can, presenting a new theory that music produces the psychological signature of emotion—a motion of the mind with a distinctive set of mathematical characteristics. This theory provides a...>>

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29.01.2023

“Of Mind and Music” by Laird Addis

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"In this fascinating account of the way in which we understand music, Laird Addis builds on the idea, first articulated by Susanne Langer, that passages of music symbolize emotions and other conscious states. He maintains that the unique bond joining music and feelings is based on a previously unnoticed affinity between consciousness and sound. Addis combines a scholar's insight with a musician's sensibility to make an engaging and convincing statement that will help readers comprehend music's importance in human affairs."...>>

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29.01.2023

“The Psychology of Music” edited by Diana Deutsch (3rd edition 2013)

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"The Psychology of Music serves as an introduction to an interdisciplinary field in psychology, which focuses on the interpretation of music through mental function. This interpretation leads to the characterization of music through perceiving, remembering, creating, performing, and responding to music. In particular, the book provides an overview of the perception of musical tones by discussing different sound characteristics, like loudness, pitch and timbre, together with interaction between these attributes. It also discusses the effect of computer resources on the psychological study of music through computational modeling. In this way, models of pitch perception, grouping and voice separation, and harmonic analysis were developed. The book further discusses musical development in social and emotional contexts,...>>

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