BIBLIOGRAPHY OF
HANS KAYSER'S PUBLICATIONS
1. Der Dom: Bücher deutscher Mystik [The Cathedral: Books of German Mysticism].
Ed. by Hans Kayser. Insel-Verlag, Leipzig 1918-1925. 13 vols.
(Hildegard v. Bingen, Meister Eckhart, Jan van Ruisbroeck, Heinrich
Seuse, Johann Tauler, a German Theology, Theophrastus Paracelsus,
Johannes Kepler, Jakob Böhme, J.G. Hamann, Franz v. Baader, G. Th.
Fechner, Mystical Poetry). The author did all the planning and
direction; he edited Paracelsus and Böhme himself.
2. Orpheus: Morphologische Fragmente einer allgemeinen Harmonik [Orpheus: Morphological Fragments of a Universal Harmonics]. 1st
printing, Berlin 1924. Folio, 92 pp. with plates, tables, and ills.
(Introduction; Ch. 1: The Lambdoma; Ch. 2: Of Sound in Stone). Due to
its bibliophilic design, this work, estimated at 5 printings and only
released in small batches, could not be continued (out of print).
3. Der hörende Mensch: Elemente eines akustischen Weltbildes [The Hearing Human: Elements of an Acoustic Worldview].
Verlag Lambert Schneider, Berlin n.d. (1932) 8º. 368 pp., 8 plates and
tables, and ills. (Introduction; Ch. I: The Partial-tone Coordinates;
Ch. II: Number-form in Harmonics; Ch. III: Sound in the Inorganic
[Chemistry, Atom theory, Crystallography, Astronomy]; Ch. IV: Sound in
the Organic; Ch. V: The World of Creation [Architecture, Tone and
Light, Music]; Ch. VI: The World of Hearing. Index.) The remaining
printing of this book was burned in an air raid on Leipzig (out of
print).
4. Vom Klang der Welt: Ein Vortragszyklus zur Einführung in die Harmonik [The Sound of the World: An Introduction to Harmonics in a Series of Lectures].
(M. Niehans Verlag, Zurich 1937) Occident Verlag, Zurich 1946. 8º, 179
pp. with ills. (Foreword; I. Historical and Epistemological
Assumptions; II. The Tone-number; III. Harmonics in the Inorganic
Sciences; IV. Harmonics in the Organic Sciences; V. Harmonics and Art;
VI. Harmonic Symbolism.)
5. Abhandlungen zur Ektypik harmonikaler Wertformen [Essays on the Ektypics of Harmonic Value-Forms].
(M. Niehans Verlag, Zurich 1938) Occident Verlag, Zurich 1946. 8º, 269
pp. with plates and ills. (Foreword; I. Definitive Questions about
Harmonics; II. Albert von Thimus; III. The Harmonic Perspective; IV.
Correspondences; V. Pythagoras; VI. Tone spectra; VII. Diary of
Binntal.)
6. Grundriss eines Systems der harmonikalen Wertformen [Outline of a System of Harmonic Value-Forms].
(M. Niehans Verlag, Zurich 1938) Occident Verlag, Zurich 1946. 8º, 335
pp. with 29 plates and figures. (Introduction; Ch. 1: The Primal
Phenomenon of Tone-number; Ch. 2: The Harmonic Theorems [A. The Theorem
of Tone-Number; B. The Theorem of the Tone-series; C. The Theorem of
the Tone-number Groups]; Ch. 3: Harmonic Value-forms [A. The Harmonic
Topic; B. Harmonic Vectors; C. Harmonic Inversions; D. Harmonic
Tectonics; E. Harmonic Axiology; F. Harmonic Ambivalences.])
7. Harmonia Plantarum.
Benno Schwabe Verlag, Basel n.d. (1943). Large 8º, 326 pp. with 11
plates and ills. in text. (Dedication; Introduction; Part 1: The Form
of the Plant; Part 2: The Functions of Plants; Part 3: The Harmonic
Value-forms of Plants; Part 4: The Nature of Plants. Afterword. Index.)
8. Akróasis: Die Lehre von der Harmonik der Welt [Akróasis: The Study of a Harmonics of the World].
Benno Schwabe Verlag, Basel 1946 (German release by Gerd Hatje Verlag,
Stuttgart 1947). Small 8º, 157 pp. with 2 plates and index. In this
small book, released after the completion of the Textbook of Harmonics,
the author hopes to give an overview without numbers or formulae,
understandable to all, of the results of his harmonic scholarship.
9. Ein Harmonikaler Teilungskanon: Analyse einer geometrischen Figur im Bauhüttenbuch Villard de Honnecourt [A Harmonic Division Canon: Analysis of a Geometric Figure in Villard de Honnecourt's architectural work]. Harmonic Studies, vol. I. Occident Verlag, Zurich 1946. 8º. 48 pp. with 18 ills.
10. Die Form der Geige: Aus dem Gesetz der Töne gedeutet [The Form of the Violin: Interpreted through the Law of Tones]. Harmonic Studies, vol. II. Occident Verlag, Zurich 1947. 8º. 34 pp. with 6 ills. and 1 plate.
11. Lehrbuch Der Harmonik [Textbook Of Harmonics]. Benno Schwabe Verlag, Basel' 1950. (German earlier release, Occident-Verlag, Zurich.) Folio, 328 pp. with 479 ills.
12. Bevor die Engel sangen: Eine harmonikale Anthologie [Before The Angels Sang: A Harmonic Anthology]. Benno Schwabe Verlag, Heidelberg 1953. 159 pp., frontispiece, plates.
13. Paestum: Die Nomoi der Drei Altgriechischen Tempel zu Paestum. [Paestum: The Nomoi of Three Ancient Greek Temples at Paestum].
Lambert Schneider Verlag, Heidelberg 1958. Large 8º, 93 pp. with 50
plates and ills. (1. Introduction; 2. Music and Architecture; 3.
Paestum; 4. Pythagoras; 5. Preliminary Remarks on Harmonic Analysis; 6.
The Nomoi of the Basilica; 7. The Nomoi of the Temple of Ceres; 8. The Nomoi of the Temple of Poseidon; 9. On the Meaning of this Work; 10 Afterword.)
Posthumous Work
14. Orphikon: Eine harmonikase Symbolik. Part I: Die Welt der Gotter. [Orphikon: A Harmonic Symbolism. Part 1: The World of the Gods]. Schwabe & Co., Basel /Stuttgart 1973. 438 pp., ills.
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