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Wiser Than Despair - The Evolution of Ideas in the Relationship of Music and the Christian Church (Paperback)
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Wiser Than Despair - The Evolution of Ideas in the Relationship of Music and the Christian Church (Paperback)
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Loot Price R568
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This book addresses a highly complex and elusive matter: why the
Christian Church was able to contribute so generously to music from
its earliest days through the 18th century and why it has suffered
since that time from a creeping artistic paralysis. Modern
attitudes and assumptions often find the values and accomplishments
of the Christian worldview enigmatic, even repellant, and church
music has come to be one of the primary areas in which the tension
between conflicting worldviews continues to be worked out on a
daily basis. This thoughtful work investigates the historical
interaction of theology, philosophy and music, and will be of
interest to church musicians, theologians, music historians and
cultural anthropologists. In its concluding chapter this work
explores a number of basic questions: In what sense, if any, can
the arts (and then the fine arts) be considered profoundly
significant for modern society? Is there a meaningful role for
artists of genius and total commitment? Do the arts (and then the
fine arts) have any profound significance for the Church in the
modern world? Of what significance, if any, to the Church in the
modern world are the great Christian artistic accomplishments of
the past? This exploration is by means of excerpts from historical
sources, quotations from modern authors, and commentary on both. It
calls upon historical, philosophical, theological, liturgical,
anthropological, and musical sources and concepts in an attempt to
develop a comprehensive understanding of musical developments that
have served the Christian church for centuries and that have also
provided a rich heritage of art music.
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