Contemporary Music and Spirituality (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Sholl, Robert; Maas, Sander van

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Contemporary Music and Spirituality provides a detailed exploration of the recent and current state of contemporary spiritual music in its religious, musical, cultural and conceptual-philosophical aspects. At the heart of the book are issues that consider the role of secularization, the claims of modernity concerning the status of art, subjective responses such as faith and experience.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317160663
• Artikelnr.: 45682674

Autorenporträt

Robert Sholl teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and at the University of West London. He has published on a wide range of twentieth-century music. He was editor of Messiaen Studies, and has recently written on Arvo Pÿrt, Stravinsky's Le Sacre du Printemps, Messiaen and Berio. As an organist Robert has given recitals at St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Notre-Dame de Paris, and at the Madeleine, and he will perform all of Messiaen's organ music in 2016-17. Sander van Maas is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Amsterdam, previously Endowed Full Professor of Dutch Contemporary Composed Music at Utrecht University, and he has held visiting positions at Boston University, Harvard and the University of West London. He is author of The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward The Beyond and editor of Thresholds of Listening: Sound, Technics, Space.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What is a Contemporary spiritual Music? Robert Sholl and
Sander van Maas
Part 1: Passions
1. For Whom the Bells Toll: Arvo Pärt's Passio, Metamodernism and the
Appealing Promise of Tintinnabulation Andrew Shenton
2. Sacrificial Passions: The Influence of Wagner and Scruton in James
MacMillan's The Sacrifice and St John Passion Dominic Wells
3. Kenosis in Contemporary Music and Postmodern Philosophy Peter Bannister
4. Synoptic Passions: Gubaidulina's St John Passion in the post-Jungian Era
Anna McCready
Part 2: Composer Studies
5. Canon as an agent of revelation in the music of Ligeti Amy Bauer
6. Music and Belief: The figure of Singularity in Galina Ustvolskaya's Work
Rokus de Groot
7. Zen' in the Art of T¿ru Takemitsu: listening as vehicle for inner
discovery Peter Burt
8. John Cage's Journey into Silence James Pritchett
9. Stockhausen's Spirituality Konrad Boehmer
10. Claude Vivier at the End Jonathan Goldman
Part 3: Perspectives and 'Prospectives'
11. Searching for the Elusive Obvious: Memory, Forgiveness, Catharsis, and
Transcendence in Contemporary Spiritual Music Robert Sholl
12. The Curvatures of Salvation: Messiaen, Stockhausen, and Adams Sander
van Maas
13. In Defence of Complexity: The New Spiritual Music's Farewell to
Modernism Burcht Pranger
14. An Awkward Reverence : Composing Oneself in the 21st Century Anglican
Church Francis Pott
15. Spiritual Music: 'positive' negative theology? Jonathan Harvey.
Selected Bibliography
Index