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Celestial Music? - Some Masterpieces of European Religious Music (Hardcover)
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Celestial Music? - Some Masterpieces of European Religious Music (Hardcover)
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Articles on masterpieces of European religious music, from the
middle ages to Stravinsky and Tavener. The late Wilfrid Mellers,
who occupies a special place among music critics, described himself
as a non-believer; but his preference for music that "displays a
sense of the numinous" (in his words) will strike a chord with many
wholisten to religious music nowadays, and who share his view that
music that confronts first and last things is likely to offer more
than music that evades them. The essays form five groups, which
together offer a survey of religious music from around the first
millennium to the beginning of the second, in the context of the
difficult issues of what religious music is, and, for good measure,
what is religion? The parts are: The Ages of Christian Faith; The
Re-birth of a Re-birth: From Renaissance to High Baroque; From
Enlightenment to Doubt; From "the Death of God" to "the Unanswered
Question"; and The Ancient Law and the Modern Mind. Musical
discussion, with copious examples, is conducted throughout the book
in a context that is also religious - and indeed philosophical,
social, and political, with the open-endedness that such an
approach demands in the presentation of ideas aboutmusic's most
fundamental nature and purposes. COMPOSERS: Hildegard of Bingen;
Perotin; Machaut; Dunstable, Dufay; William Corniyshes father and
son; Tallis; Byrd; Monteverdi; Schutz; J.S. Bach; Couperin; Handel;
Haydn;Mozart; Beethoven; Schubert; Bruckner; Berlioz, Faure; Verdi,
Brahms; Elgar, Delius; Holst, Vaughan Williams, Howells; Britten;
Janacek; Messiaen, Poulenc; Rachmaninov; Stravinsky; Part, Tavener,
Gorecki, Macmillan, Finnissy; Copland.
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