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The Reinvention of Religious Music - Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond (Hardcover)
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The Reinvention of Religious Music - Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond (Hardcover)
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Present-day music studies conspicuously evade the question of
religion in contemporary music. Although many composers address the
issue in their work, as yet there have been few attempts to think
through the structure of religious music as we hear it. 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-religiousmusic 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
beyondon 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 Jsus-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 Sren Kierkegaard and Jean-Franois
Lyotard. Ultimately, this confrontation underscores the challenging
yet deeply affirmative nature of Messiaen's music.
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