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The Reinvention of Religious Music - Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond (Paperback) Loot Price: R747
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The Reinvention of Religious Music - Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond (Paperback): Sander Van Maas

The Reinvention of Religious Music - Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond (Paperback)

Sander Van Maas

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On the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his notion of a "hyper-religious" music of sounds and colors, it aims to show that Messiaen has broken new ground. His reinvention of religious music makes us again aware of the fact that religious music, if taken in its proper radical sense, belongs to the foremost of musical adventures. The work of Olivier Messiaen is well known for its inclusion of religious themes and gestures. These alone, however, do not seem enough to account for the religious status of the work. Arguing for a "breakthrough toward the beyond" on the basis of the synaesthetic experience of music, Messiaen invites a confrontation with contemporary theologians and post-secular thinkers. How to account for a religious breakthrough that is produced by a work of art? Starting from an analysis of his 1960s oratorio La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jesus-Christ, this book arranges a moderated dialogue between Messiaen and the music theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the phenomenology of revelation of Jean-Luc Marion, the rethinking of religion and technics in Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, and the Augustinian ruminations of Soren Kierkegaard and Jean-Francois Lyotard. Ultimately, this confrontation underscores the challenging yet deeply affirmative nature of Messiaen's music.

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Imprint: Fordham University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2012
First published: March 2012
Authors: Sander Van Maas
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 978-0-8232-3058-7
Categories: Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Other types of music > Sacred & religious music
Books > Music > Other types of music > Sacred & religious music
LSN: 0-8232-3058-9
Barcode: 9780823230587

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