Voicing the ineffable : musical representations of religious experience /

Voicing the ineffable : musical representations of religious experience / edited by Siglind Bruhn. - Hillsdale, NY : Pendragon Press, c2002. - viii, 316 p. : ill., partial musical scores ; 23 cm. - Interplay ; no. 3 . - Interplay (Hillsdale, N.Y.) ; no. 3. .

Includes bibliographical references.

Of Spain and sin : a glance at Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch / From paganism to orthodoxy to theosophy : reflections of other worlds in the piano music of Rachmaninov and Scriabin / Sermon for fishes in a secular age : on the scherzo movement of Mahler's second symphony / Music, religious experience, and transcedence in Ben Jonson's Masque of beautie : a case study in collaborative form / Truth ineffably divine : the loss and recovery of the sacred in Richard Wagner's Parsifal / Eschatological aspects in music : The dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar / Wordless songs of love, glory, and resurrection : Musical emblems of the holy in Hindemith's saints / Passion according to Penderecki / Spiritual descents and ascents : religious implications in pronounced motion to the subdominant and beyond / Time and divine providence in Mozart's music / Music and the ineffable / Susan Youens Anatole Leikin Magnar Breivik Anthony Johnson Robert A. Davis Eva Maria Jensen Siglind Bruhn Danuta Mirka Chandler Carter Nils Holger Petersen Eyolf Ă˜strem. Part I: Signs of transcendence and couleur locale Part II: Lifting the secular veil Part III: Temptation, death, and resurrection Part IV: The divine breath of worldly music

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Music--Religious aspects.
Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.

ML3921 / .V65 2002

781.12