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BIBLIOGRAPHY

No comprehensive treatment of this topic exists. How-
ever, there are a few works covering particular periods and
problems, and these often only skirt the topic.

H. Abert, Die Musikanschauung des Mittelalters und ihre
Grundlagen
(Halle, 1905). R. Dammann, Der Musikbegriff
im deutschen Barock
(Cologne, 1968). Th. Gérold, Les pères
de l'église et la musique
(Paris, 1931). R. Hammerstein, Die
Musik der Engel: Untersuchungen zur Musikanschauung des
Mittelalters;
esp. chapter on “Die Musik der Hölle” (Berne
and Munich, 1962); idem, “Die Musik in Dantes Divina
Commedia,
Deutsches Dante-Jahrbuch 41/42 (Weimar,
1964). E. Langton, Satan: A Portrait (London, 1945). J.
Quasten, Musik und Gesang in den Kulten der heidnischen
Antike und der christlichen Frühzeit
(Münster, 1930). K.
Meyer-Baer, Music of the spheres and the Dance of Death.
Studies in Musical Iconology
(Princeton, 1970). C. Sachs,
Geist und Werden der Musikinstrumente (Berlin, 1929);
trans. as History of Musical Instruments (New York, 1940).
H. Schade, Dämonen und Monstren, Gestaltungen des Bösen
in der Kunst des frühen Mittelalters
(Regensburg, 1962).
M. Schneider, “Primitive Music,” New Oxford History
of Music,
Vol. I (London and New York, 1960). H. Sedlmayr,
Die Entstehung der Kathedrale (Zurich, 1950).

REINHOLD HAMMERSTEIN

[See also Demonology; Dualism; Evil; Hierarchy; Music as
a Divine Art;
Primitivism; Witchcraft.]