A Synergy — Musical Preternatural and Literary Supernatural

I regard this book’s paranormal as the ‘science’ of the preternatural — and ghost stories and other literary or fictional inspirations as the gestalt of supernatural truths. Music and fiction as kindred spirits or ‘souls’. It is good to see this book is deploying the preternatural, and so we now need another scholar to do the same for the supernatural.

This encyclopaedic dictionary demonstrates Willin’s immaculate scholarship and the bold interconnections between the articles, as well as supporting references. It is no doubt ground-breaking in dealing with research in the preternatural of music and, thus, explaining at last how music has stirred me over seventy years to the point of obsession; it is miraculous, finally, to receive this book as key to such mysteries of what music actually is, without understanding its technical aspects, as I don’t and never shall. Just as I don’t understand the ghosts I ‘see’, on and off the page.

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The full context of my review of the monumental and momentous MUSIC AND THE PRETERNATURAL by Melvyn J. Willin: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2022/02/02/music-and-the-paranormal-by-melvyn-j-wilkinson/