Index
Please note: the terms are indexed where they are first cited in the work; subsequent citations (in most cases) are not listed. Spelling in some case is idiosyncratic to Spengler and German of 1918; this is especially true of Chinese names.
1420, 233
7th century Greece, 233
A
a fortiori , 220.
a cappela style, 230.
accelerando, 232.
accentually, 227.
Acropolis (ruins), 254.
Adam de la Hale, 229.
Addison, 254.
Aegina temple, 226, pediment, 244.
aerial versus linear perspective, 246.
aery, 250.
Albani (depth effect), 246.
Albani villas (park), 240.
Alberti, linear perspective, 240 , garden-theorist, 240.
Alchemy, 248.
Aleman, 223.
allergro, 232.
allegro feroce, 250.
Ambrosian chants, 228.
andante, 232.
andante con moto, 250.
antiphons, 228.
Antonello da Messina (in Venice), 236.
Apennines, 234.
Apollonian art (space), 243.
Arabian music, 228.
arabesque, 248, 223.
archaic clay-painting, relief, 225.
archetypes, 247.
Archimedes (Southern physics), 236.
ars nova, 229, of southern French, 234.
art genus, 222.
atelierbraun, 250.
atmospheric depth-effects, 227.
Attic, fresco, 225, drama 223
aulos, 220.
Axum, 223.
B
Bach, 219, 231, 243, fugues, 220, 222, 230; organ works, 220; Matthew Passion, 244.
Baghdad (school of), 248
Ballad, 229.
Bamberg, 223.
Baroque instrumental music, 224; Newtonian physics, 236; park, 241; perspective, 246.
Basilica of Maxentius (Arabian style), 238.
Basra (school of), p248.
bass melody, p230.
basso continuo, 230, 226, 245.
Baudelaire, 241.
Beethoven, 231, 251; deafness, 220; string music 252, last quartets 220.
Bernini 244, architecture, 232, 245.
Binchois, 230.
bizarrerie, 254.
blue, 246
blue-green (“Catholic”), 253.
blue horses in archaic Acropolis, 245.
bodies, 227.
bodily plastic tradition, 234.
Books of Hours, Duke of Berry, 239.
Botticelli, 236, goldsmith, 237.
brown, 251.
Bruckner, 223; orchestration, 252.
Brunelleschi (linear perspective), 240
Burckhardt, 234.
Buxtehude, p220.
Byzantine hymns, 228; cum Saracen, 235; gold-ground mosaic, 237; purple codices, 247.
C
Caccias, 229.
cadences, 232.
Caesar, 238.
Campagna (aqueducts), 254.
cantata, 230.
Canzone, 229
Carissimi, 230
casualty principle, 222.
catacombs, 224.
Catherine of Siena, 235.
Catholicism, 233, 247.
celibate priests (violet), p246
chamber-music, 231.
Chartres, 223.
chiaroscuro, p250
Chinese garden-art, 240; music, 228.
chromatic, 227, of string, 227; air 250, 251.
Church Councils (substantiality of Christ), 248.
Cimabue (art of Byzantine mosaic), p238
circumambient, 247.
circumscribed, 247.
city form (cathedral/cottage), p233
Classical Fatum (the point existence), p246
Classical Venus crouching (Vatican), 232; torso, 254; verse, 227.
climatic, p 247
Cnossus, p254
colour, p220
colour tones/tone colours, p232
“complete inversion…of pictorial elements”, 242
concerto grosso, p231
Constable, 251.
Corelli, sonata, p226; 231.
Corinthian painting on clay, p225
Corot (intense depth effect), 246
corporeal, 250
Council of Trent, 247
counterpoint (earliest), p225; Low German, 234.
Couperin (silver-bright distance-pictures of pastoral music), 240
Court of the Lions (Alhambra), 235
Coysevox, Crouching Venus of the Louvre, 232; decorator, 245.
curved furniture, p232
Cusanus, 236.
D
Dante, 229, 243.
Darwin, 221.
de Rore, 251 , 252; succeeds Willaert, 236.
delineating styles, p239
Della Quercia, p238
Descartes (functional analysis), p230
Dies Irae, 235.
Diez, 252.
Dioynisian movement, 233; cult, 234.
directional energy, 228.
Discant (Romanesque style), 229.
disproof, 247.
Donatello, 221, 238.
Doric springtime, 223.
draped figures (of Gothic, Romanesque cathedrals), 227.
Dresden (architecture), 232.
Droem, 241.
duality of development, 228
Dufay, 230, 236.
Dunstaple, 230
Durer, 245, 250
E
East Asia, 223.
Edessa, 228.
Egyptian relief, 221; plastic 222; harp, 227; superposed ranks, 243.
El Greco (cloud-symbolism), 240.
English park, 254.
enharmonic, 227.
“entoptic colours”, 246.
etchings, p221
Etruscan tomb painting, p221
epochal, p222
espalier work, p231
Eucharist, p 247
Euler, p231
Euripides, p223
extended/limited/numberable, 220
F
façade, 224.
Faust, 220; his second soul, 233.
Faustian forest music, 232.
Fauxbourdon (Romanesque style), 229.
Fermat (geometrical analysis), 230.
Filippino Lippi, 236.
Flemish artists (linear perspective), 240.
Florence, 238; sculpture 223; the Duomo, 234; compared to Athens, 237.
folk -melodies, 229
Fontainebleau, 240
“form" versus “content", 242.
Forum Romanum, 254.
four- part movement, 231.
four voice Mass, 230.
Fouquet's Vaux-le-Vicomete, 241.
Fra Angelico, 221, 230.
Fragonard, 232.
Franciscans, art of (Cimabue, Giotto, Italian Gothic), 249.
Francois Vase (procession of gods), 244.
free plastic, 235.
Frescobaldi, 230.
Frieze of the Giants (Pergamum), 244.
fugal style, 230, 231.
functional Analysis (1740), 231.
G
Gabrieli the Elder, 226, 252.
Galante operetta, 229.
Galileo (Southern physics), 236.
gamut, 245.
George, 241.
German masters, 226.
Ghiberti, 235, 238.
Ghirlandaio, 236.
Giorgione, 239, 240, 251, 252.
Giotto, 221, 235, 237.
Gnostic (syncretic cult), 228, 248.
Gobelins, 232, 245.
Godhead, 249
Goethe, Walpurgis Night (Faust), 223; Farbenlehre, 246; Faust part 1: Prologue, 250.
gold-and-ivory statuary, 226.
Gothic window, 221; counterpoint, 222; glass-painting, 237; book illustrations, 247
Goya, 221.
"Gotterdammerung (tragedies of the future), p255.
Goujon, p244
Grunewald, 240, 246, 250.
Greek (colour-blindness), p245
Guardi, 220.
Guercino, 246, 250
Guido. d'Arezzo (10th century), p 228
H
Haeckel, 252.
Hals, 250.
Handel, 231.
harmony, 220, 232.
Haydn, 231.
Hersfeld, 254.
hieratic, 248.
high personages (black or blue), 246.
Hobbema, 246.
Holbein, 250.
Holderlin, 241.
Holy Roman Empire (state theory), 233.
Holy Scriptures, 248.
homogeneity, 232.
Houdon (disguised painter), 245.
Hucbald (10th century), 228.
Hugo van der Goes, 236.
hyperbolic, 250.
I
Imperial Age, 240.
impromptu, 229.
Indian, 223.
Infinitesimal Calculus, 231.
instrumental music (end), 223.
Islamic philosophy (last great names), 248.
Italy (Byzantine & Moorish, 235.
J
Jewish psalmody, p 228
Joachim of Floris, p229
Josquin des Pres, p230
Justus van Gent (1470 introduced oil-painting to Umbria), p236
K
Kabbala, 248.
Kant (space), 243.
kinesis, 239.
Kings 'heads" (Chartres cathedral), 235.
knightly tourney, 233.
L
landscape-gardeners Northern France, 241.
landscape-painters of Holland, 239.
Lasso, 230, 244.
“Late age”, 230.
Lateral, 226.
Lateran council (1215), 247.
Le Notre, 241.
Lear, 250.
Leibl, 244; Frau Gedon portrait, 252.
Leibniz, 251.
leitmotif, 236.
Leonardo, 236, 237, 239, 244, 246, 250.
Lesche of the Knidians, 243.
Lessing, 252.
Linear progress (symbolism), p229
lines, p220
Liszt, 223
Lombardo Byzantine, 247.
loquacious, 247.
Lorrain, 219, 246, 254.
Luca' Marenzio, 251.
Ludovisi villas (park), 240.
Luxor & Karnak, 254.
Lysippus, 226.
M
Macbeth, 250.
Macpherson, his" Ossian", 241.
Madema, 244.
Madrigals, 229; new Venetian, 230.
Maiano, 238.
Major and minor, 229.
Mandrean s(syncretic cults), 228.
Manet, 244.
Manichreans, 228.
Mantegna, 221, 239, 242.
Marching music, 228.
Marees, 244, 252.
Masaccio, 237.
masters of the" George" choir (Bamberg cathedral), 235.
materialists, 221.
Mazdaists, 228.
mediaely, 220.
Medicean court, 234.
Medici, Lorenzo, and Dufay, 230; 237.
Melodic inventiveness, 229.
melody, 220, 227.
Memlinc, 236.
metopes (blue backgrounds), 245.
Michelangelo, 221; 223, 230; on Titian, 242; 244.
Miletus, seated figures of, 225.
Minnesanger, 229.
Minstrels, 229.
Mirror halls, 232.
Mithrrea, 224; Mithraists, 228.
modern painting (esoteric), 243.
Monteverde, "Lament of Ariadne", 226; 230, 249.
Moorish style (music), 228.
motet, 230.
motive, 230.
movements, 231.
Mozart, 220, 231.
music, imitative, 228.
Myron, 220, 225, Marsyas, 226.
"mystic power...", 250
Mysticism, 229
N
Nardini (orchestration), 231.
Naumburg, 223.
NazzAm (on the character of the atom), 248.
Neo-Platonists (nature of bodies), 248.
Neo-Pythagoreans (nature of bodies), 248.
Nestorian Christians, 228.
Netherlanders (tragic clouds), 240.
niche, 235.
Nicholas of Oresme, 229.
Nietzsche, Dionysus Dithyrambs, 241, Morgenrote, 245 ,on Bizet, 252.
O
Okeghem, school, p230; 243
Olympia, temple (West pediment), 226
ontological, p249
oratorio, p230
orchestral writing (18th century), 225
ornamental sides of music, p 228
Othello, 220
P
Pachelbel, p220
Pacher, 250
palazzo Strozzi, Florence (facade), 234
Palestrina (a capapella of), 220; 230, 243, 244
Palma (gold tone of the great Venetians), 252
Pantheon (Arabian style), 238
paradoxical, 248
Parthenon relief, 221
pastels, 232
pastoral cantata, p226
patina, 253
Paul, p248
Paulinzella, 254
"Peer Gynt", 255
Pericles, p238
Petrach, 229, 254
Perugino (drapery), p249
phallus-symbol (red), 246.
Phidias, 225.
Philo, 248.
philological studies, 254.
Philosophers' Stone, 248.
physiognomic, 222, 233, 250.
physiological, 219.
Piero della Francesca (static space), p 237, 240.
Pisano, Giovanni, 235,238.
planar, 226.
plane-relief, 225.
plates, 225.
plein-air, 252.
Plotinus, 248.
point de vue (Rococo park), p240
Pollaiulo, 236, 237.
polychroming, p226
Polycletus, 225, 226, 231, 255.
Polygnotus, 221, Lesche of the Cnidians, 243; 245.
polyphony (like the rime of contemporary poetry), p 228, 229, 230, 232, 239.
Pope, p254
Porcelain (minor art), 231.
Port Royal, 251.
portraits (of the Low Countries), 236.
Poseidon, temple (Paestum), 224, 235.
Poussin, 220, 246.
Praxiteles, 226.
prepotent, 241.
Prime-Symbol, 240.
proto-Corinthian vase painting, 221.
Provence (courts of), 229.
psalmody, 228.
Pseudomorphosis, 228.
Pigalle, 244.
Puget, 244.
Q
quantitatively, 227.
Quattrocento, 221.
R
Raphael, 221, 237, 243, 245.
Ravenna mosaics, 221; 235.
Reformatio, 229
Reims, 223, 224
remainder-expression, 241.
Rembrandt, 220, 222, 226, 239, 243, 244, 251, 253.
Renaissance park (Medici), 241.
responsorial, 228.
Rhenish, 247.
Rhine (castles of), 254.
rhyme, 220.
rhythm, 220, 227.
rhythmic dynamic, 228.
Rinascita, 229.
Robin and Marion, 229.
Rodin, 244, 245.
Rogier van der Weyden (in Florence 1450), 236.
Roman Limes, 254.
Rome (of Leo X), 237.
Rondeau, 229.
round arch & column, 236.
Rubens, 253.
ruin (artificial), 254.
Russian, 223.
Ruysdael, 246.
S
Saba, 223.
sacrament of Contrition, 248.
S. Marie Novella (cloister), 234.
St. Peter's Cathedral (early Baroque), 238.
Sassanid chivalric music, 228; 223.
Savonarola, 233.
schism (East-West Church), 249.
Schluter, 244; architect, 245.
Scholasticism, 229.
Schongauer, 250.
secular tendency, 225.
Seine and Scheldt (home of the Gothic), 229.
Semper, 221.
sensibility, 254.
shepherdesses (verse & porcelain), 232.
Shutz, 220.
Siena (counter-Renaissance), 234.
Signorelli, 221, 239, 242.
Simone Martini, 235.
single-voiced, 227.
social drama ( 19th Century), 255.
somatic, p251
sonata, 226, 231.
Southern physics (static), 236.
space, 247.
Spanish school, 244.
Speyer cathedral, 224.
spielmann’s song, 233.
Spitzweg, 252.
Stabat mater, 235.
Staccato, 232.
Stamitz, 231.
string quartet, 231.
strings and wind, 226.
Sturm und Drang, 235.
Suhrawardi, 248.
suite, 231.
Sun-temple of Baalbek, 235.
superposed, 243.
syllables, 227.
symphony, 231.
synagogues of Irak, 228.
syncretic cults, 228.
Syrian sun worship, 228.
T
Tao (accent less), 228.
tapestry backgrounds (depth of space was covered up), 248.
Tartini (orchestration), 231.
Telephus Frieze (Pergamum), 244.
tempo, 250.
Terpander, 223.
tetrachords, 227.
Thaletas, 223.
Thorwaldsen, 245.
"Thousand and One Nights.", 248
timbre, 230.
Tintoretto, 239.
Tiryns, 254.
Titian, 221, 226, 243, 244, 249, 252.
tones, 220, colours, 226, 227, 230, 239.
Troubadours, 229.
trills, 232.
transvaluation, 239.
Tuscany, 234, 221 Tuscan patricians, 229.
U
Ulm Minster, 224.
unit-bodies, 247.
Upper Italy (Byzantine-tinted Gothic), 234.
V
van Dyck, 250.
Velasquez, 226, 250.
Venetian, 245; madrigal; 249 music-school, 252
Venice, oil-painting of, p224 Venice, p235
Verlaine, 241
Vermeer, 221, 251, 253.
vermilion, p 253
Veronese, 240, 252
Verrocchio, 224, 235, 237, 238
Versailles, park, p241
Viadana, 230
Vienna, 232;Congress of, 232
violin sonatas, 231
virtuosi, 230
visage, 224
Vischer, Peter 223
visible brush-strokes, 227
vocal masses (sung mass) , 230
W
Wagner, 223, 244; Tristan, 220; Meistersinger, 222.
Watteau, 219, 232, 253; intense depth effect, 246.
Willaert, 236, 252.
wind choruses, 227.
Wolfram, 243.
world-cavern, 250.
X,Y,Z
Zarlino, 230.