Messiaen the Theologian (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Shenton, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

By approaching Messiaen and his music from such important and original perspectives, this book will be of interest not only to musicians and theologians, but also to readers interested in the connection between spirituality and the arts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781351558457
• Artikelnr.: 49043638

Autorenporträt

Andrew Shenton holds bachelor, masters and doctoral degrees from London University, Yale and Harvard respectively. A renowned performer, scholar and educator, Dr. Shenton is currently a member of the musicology faculty at Boston University where he directs the Messiaen Project. He was a contributor to Olivier Messiaen: Music, Art, Literature (Ashgate, 2007) and his monograph Olivier Messiaen's System of Signs (Ashgate, 2008) won the 2009 Miller Book Award.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introducing Messiaen the theologian, Andrew Shenton; Part 1
Messiaen the Theologian: Religious literature in Messiaen's personal
library, Yves Balmer; Messiaen as preacher and evangelist in the context of
European modernism, Peter Bannister; Messiaen's saintly naïveté, Sander
van Maas. Part 2 Messiaen's Relationship with Theologians: Olivier Messiaen
and Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger: 2 views of the liturgical reform
according to the 2nd Vatican Council, Karin Heller; Messiaen's relationship
to Jacques Maritain's musical circle and neo-Thomism, Douglas Shadle;
Messiaen and Aquinas, Vincent P. Benitez. Part 3 Messiaen, Poets and
Theological Themes: Dante as guide to Messiaen's Gothic spirituality,
Robert Fallon; Five quartets: the search for the still point of the turning
world in the war quartets of T.S. Eliot and Olivier Messiaen, Andrew
Shenton; The charm of impossibilities: mystic surrealism as contemplative
voluptuousness, Stephen Schloesser. Part 4 Theology in Messiaen's Music:
'Une Å"uvre simple, solonnelle...': Messiaen's commission from André
Malraux, Nigel Simeone; Olivier Messiaen and the avant-garde poetics of the
Mess de la Pentecÿte, Robert Sholl; Messiaen as explorer in Livre du Saint
Sacrement, Luke Berryman; Buddhist temple, Shinto shrine and the invisible
God of Sept Haïkaï, Cheong Wai Ling; Glossary of people; Select
bibliography; Index.