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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.

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.

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   

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.

Decline of the West, Chapter VII: Music and Plastic. (I) The Arts of Form 
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