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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of music examples; Notes on contributors; Introduction: What is a contemporary spiritual music?; PART I Passions; 1 For whom the bells toll: Arvo Pärt's Passio, metamodernism and the appealing promise of tintinnabulation; 2 Sacrificial passions: The influence of Wagner and Scruton in James MacMillan's The Sacrifice and St John Passion; 3 Kenosis in contemporary music and postmodern philosophy; 4 Synoptic passions: Gubaidulina's St John Passion in the post-Jungian era; PART II Composer studies |
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5 Canon as an agent of revelation in the music of Ligeti6 Music and belief: The figure of singularity in Galina Ustvolskaya's work; 7 'Zen' in the art of Tōru Takemitsu: Listening as vehicle for inner discovery; 8 John Cage's journey into silence; 9 Stockhausen's spirituality; 10 Claude Vivier at the end; PART III Perspectives and 'prospectives'; 11 Searching for the elusive obvious: Memory, forgiveness, catharsis, and transcendence in contemporaryspiritual music; 12 The curvatures of salvation: Messiaen, Stockhausen, and Adams |
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13 In defence of complexity: The new spiritual music's farewell to modernism14 An awkward reverence: Composing oneself in the twenty-first-century Anglican church; 15 Spiritual music: 'Positive' negative theology?; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored. The engagement and tensions between modernism and tradition, and institutionalized religion and spirituality are inherent issues for many composers who have sought to invoke spirituality and Otherness through contemporary music. 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, and subjective responses such as faith and experience. The contributors provide a new critical lens through which it is possible to see the music and thought of Cage, Ligeti, Messiaen, Stockhausen as spiritual music. The book surrounds these composers with studies of and by other composers directly associated with the idea of spiritual music (Harvey, Gubaidulina, MacMillan, Pärt, Pott, and Tavener), and others (Adams, Birtwistle, Ton de Leeuw, Ferneyhough, Ustvolskaya, and Vivier) who have created original engagements with the idea of spirituality. Contemporary Music and Spirituality is essential reading for humanities scholars and students working in the areas of musicology, music theory, theology, religious studies, philosophy of culture, and the history of twentieth-century culture |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Music -- 21st century -- Religious aspects
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Music -- 20th century -- Religious aspects
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Spirituality in music.
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MUSIC -- Religious -- General.
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Music -- Religious aspects
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Spirituality in music
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Spiritualität
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Musik
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1317160665 |
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9781317160663 |
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9781409440598 |
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1409440591 |
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9781317160656 |
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1317160657 |
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9781315573892 |
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131557389X |
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