Joscelyn Godwin
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Joscelyn Godwin | |
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Born | Joscelyn Godwin 16 January 1945 Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Professor, author, translator |
Known for | Ancient music, Paganism, Occult |
Joscelyn Godwin (born 16 January 1945 at Kelmscott, Oxfordshire, England) is a composer, musicologist, and translator, known for his work on ancient music, paganism, and music in the occult.
Biography[]
He was educated as a chorister at Christ Church Cathedral School, Oxford, then at Radley College (Music Scholar), and Magdalene College, Cambridge (Music Scholar; B.A., 1965, Mus. B., 1966, M.A. 1969).[1]
Bibliography[]
Books authored or co-authored[]
- Robert Fludd. Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds. London: Thames & Hudson, 1979; also published in French, Greek, Spanish and Japanese. Currently available from Adventures Unlimited Press.
- Athanasius Kircher. A Renaissance Man and the Quest for Lost Knowledge. London: Thames & Hudson, 1979; also published in French, German, Spanish & Japanese.
- Mystery Religions in the Ancient World. London: Thames & Hudson, 1981, ISBN 0500110190; pbk, 1982, ISBN 0060631406; also published in Greek, Japanese.
- Harmonies of Heaven and Earth. The Spiritual Dimension of Music from Antiquity to the Avant-Garde. London: Thames & Hudson, 1987; also published in French, German, Japanese; partly published in Spanish. Currently in print from Inner Traditions International.
- Music and the Occult. French Musical Philosophies 1750–1950. Rochester: University of Rochester Press/London: Boydell & Brewer, 1995; previously published in French; also published in Japanese.
- The Mystery of the Seven Vowels in Theory and Practice. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1991; also published in Italian.
- Arktos (1993 subtitled "The Polar Myth in Science, Symbolism, and Nazi Survival"). Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1993, also published in German (two different editions), Japanese, Greek, French, Italian and Spanish). Currently in print from Adventures Unlimited Press.
- The Theosophical Enlightenment. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1994.
- Johann Friedrich Hugo Von Dalberg (1760–1812): Schriftsteller, Musiker, Domherr. Co-authored with Michael Embach. Mainz: Gesellschaft für mittelrheinische Kirchengeschichte, 1998. (In German)
- The Pagan Dream of the Renaissance. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press/London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.
- The Real Rule of Four. New York: The Disinformation Company, 2004; also published in French and Portuguese.
- The Golden Thread: The Ageless Wisdom of the Western Mystery Traditions. Wheaton, IL: Quest Books, 2007.
- Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World. London: Thames and Hudson, 2009. ISBN 978-0-500-25860-6.
- Atlantis and the Cycles of Time: Prophecies, Traditions, And Occult Revelations. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2011). ISBN 978-1-59477-857-5.
- The Forbidden Book, a Novel. Co-authored with Guido Mina di Sospiro. Revised edition, New York: The Disinformation Company, 2011 (electronic book). Print edition: San Francisco: Disinformation (an imprint of RedWheel/Weiser), 2013. ISBN 193887501X. Foreign language editions in Spanish, Danish, Russian, Greek, Bulgarian, Polish, Romanian, and Thai.
- Forbidden Fruits, an Occult Novel. Co-authored with Guido Mina di Sospiro. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2020. ISBN 1644111578.
Books edited[]
- Alessandro Scarlatti, Marco Attilio Regolo. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1975 (Series: The Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti, vol. 2).
- Schirmer Scores. A Repertory of Western Music. New York: Schirmer Books, 1975.
- Music, Mysticism and Magic: A Sourcebook. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986; Harmondsworth: Penguin Arkana.
- Michael Maier, Atalanta Fugiens: an Edition of the Fugues, Emblems and Epigrams. With an Introductory Essay by Hildemarie Streich. Tysoe: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1987; Grand Rapids: Phanes Press. Included a cassette tape of the first complete recording of the fifty Fugues, sung by Rachel Platt, Emily Van Evera, , and Richard Wistreich. The recording has been remastered and issued on compact disc by Claudio Records. Spanish edition with expanded Introduction, La Fuga della Atalanta, Girona: Ediciones Atalanta, 2007.
- Marius Schneider, Rudolf Haase, and Hans Erhard Lauer, Cosmic Music. Three Musical Keys to the Interpretation of Reality, translated by Marton Radkai and Joscelyn Godwin. Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions International, 1989.
- Paul Brunton: Essential Readings. Co-edited with Randall Cash and Timothy Smith. Wellingborough: Crucible Books, 1990.
- Harmony of the Spheres. A Sourcebook of the Pythagorean Tradition in Music. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1993; also published in Spanish (Girona: Atalanta, 2009), with illustrations and a new introduction.
- The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor. Historical and Initiatic Documents of an Order of Practical Occultism. Co-edited with Christian Chanel and John Patrick Deveney. York Beach: Samuel Weiser, 1995). Also published in French and Italian.
- Ésotérisme, gnoses & imaginaire symbolique. Mélanges offerts à Antoine Faivre. Co-edited with Richard Caron, Wouter J. Hanegraaff, and Jean-Louis Vieillard-Baron. Leuven: Peeters, 2001.
- John Michell, Confessions of a Radical Traditionalist. Waterbury Center, VT: Dominion, 2005.
- Petrus Talemarianus, Natural Architecture, translated by Ariel Godwin. Sacred Science Institute, 2006.
- The Starlight Years: Love and War at Kelmscott Manor, 1940–1948. The Paintings, Drawings and Writings of Edward and Stephani Scott-Snell/Godwin. Stanbridge: Dovecote Press, 2015. https://www.amazon.com/The-Starlight-Years-Kelmscott-Manor/dp/0992915112
Books translated[]
- Werner Walcker-Meyer, The Roman Organ of Aquincum. Ludwigsburg: Musikwissenschaftliches Verlagsgesellschaft, 1972.
- Salomon Trismosin, Splendor Solis. Edinburgh: Magnum Opus Hermetic Sourceworks, 1981; Grand Rapids: Phanes Press. 1991. Another version: Splendor Solis: Harley Ms. 3469. Barcelona: Moleiro, 2011, 53–69.
- René Guénon, The Multiple States of Being. Burdett, NY: Larson Publications, 1984.
- Fabre d'Olivet, The Secret Lore of Music. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 1988. Originally entitled Music Explained as Science and Art.
- Johann Valentin Andreae, The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1991. Reissued in Rosicrucian Trilogy: The Three Original Rosicrucian Documents in New English Translations. Translation of the Fama Fraternitatis by Christopher McIntosh and Donate Pahnke McIntosh; translation of the Confessio Fraternitatis and Chymische Hochzeit by JG. Newburyport: RedWheel/Weiser, 2016.
- Antoine Faivre, The Eternal Hermes. Grand Rapids: Phanes Press, 1994.
- Francesco Colonna, Hypnerotomachia Poliphili: The Strife of Love in a Dream. London & New York: Thames & Hudson, 1999 and re-editions.[2]
- Julius Evola, Ride the Tiger. Co-translated with Constance Fontana. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 2003.
- Hans Kayser, Textbook of Harmonics. Co-translated with Ariel Godwin. Sacred Science Institute, 2006
- Marco Baistrocchi, Agarttha: A Guenonian Manipulation? Fullerton, Ca.: Theosophical History, 2009 (Theosophical History Occasional Papers, No. XII).
- Julius Evola and The UR Group, Introduction to Magic, Volume II: The Path of Initiatic Wisdom. Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions International, 2019.
References[]
- ^ "Joscelyn Godwin".
- ^ Adapted as part of an opera libretto by the German composer Alexander Moosbrugger; premiere at the Bregenz Festival (Lake Constance) in 2021.
External links[]
Categories:
- 1945 births
- Alumni of Magdalene College, Cambridge
- People educated at Christ Church Cathedral School
- Cornell University alumni
- English musicologists
- English translators
- English composers
- Historicist composers
- Living people
- People educated at Radley College
- People from West Oxfordshire District
- Cleveland State University faculty
- Colgate University faculty
- Western esotericism scholars