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...This introductory chapter explains the coverage and objective of this book, which is to examine the role of French composer Olivier Messiaen on the reinvention of religious music. This book is driven by the conviction that one can aspire to come close to the phenomenon of the musicosacral...

...This chapter examines the connection and convergence between the religious music composition of Olivier Messiaen and the works and philosophy of Swiss theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. Messiaen considers von Balthasar a major influence. However, the music of Messiaen appears to fall beyond...

...This chapter examines an aspect of breakthrough in Olivier Messiaen's religious music composition concerning listening “here” and listening in the “beyond”. It analyzes the Judeo-Christian tradition relevant to music hearing and listening. These are the circumcision of the ear and the notion...

...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...

... Songs Religious Music Marching Band And finally, when a man looked up in some anonymous field and shouted, “Oh, Ahm tired a dis mess,/ Oh, yes, Ahm so tired a dis mess,” you can be sure he was an American. — LeRoi Jones, Blues People, xii . Before LeRoi Jones, Alain Locke...

... as immoral or seditious; and atheist composers were sometimes disparagingly regarded as incapable of writing ‘sincere’ religious music. Beginning in the early nineteenth century, however, prominent composers who divulged outspoken atheism in letters and interviews also achieved atheistic musical expression...

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...' Gallo Alberto Sabadino degli Arienti Giovanni Vaughan Richard Este family mythical link to French royal line Paneto Baptista Compère Loyset Desprez Josquin Martini Johannes religious music court festivities secular plays late Quattrocento translations the rise of theater, spectacle...

... as inoffensive cultural display and thus halal, and fostering new religious music to help modernize and nationalize a localized populace. adat agama Lombok sasak Waktu Telu wayang sasak Islam kepercayaan music Shari'a Arabs Bali Sayyid umma Waktu Lima Yang Penting Islam haji haja...

...This chapter studies the history of religious music, which received little public recognition within the atheist state, and takes note of some of the specific ways that religious music, especially that of Afro-Cuban groups, has been affected by socialist doctrine. It describes the negative...

... vows hymns Jacobins mass resurrection Solera Va’ pensiero Verdi Verdi Giuseppe Machiavelli Niccolò Prince The Machiavelli patria nation republican religion religious hymns religious music republican liberty Alessandro Manzoni Christianity A religion must have hymns and music...

...This chapter examines the liturgical and religious music brought by Franciscan and Jesuit missionaries to New Spain and ultimately to the frontier missions during the period from 1500 to 1800. It explains that the sacred music of the liturgy helped to foster group identity among believers...

... of the repetitions of it. This chapter asserts that the technical is a constitutive part of what Messiaen calls breakthrough and that that singularity of religious experience is always contaminated with the artificiality and repeatability of technics. Olivier Messiaen religious music composition technics...

...This epilogue sums up the key findings about the religious music composition of Olivier Messiaen. It suggests that Messiaen's is far from exemplifying a Christian music of asceticism or contemptus mundi and that it remains deeply affirmative. In this respect, his work is close...

.... His incursion into religious music came after he wrote memorial pieces for Raúl Lavista, Rodolfo Halffter, and Gerhart Muench, and it was the result of his affinity for late-medieval and Renaissance Western European musical thought. The chapter explores the ways in which, by writing religious music...

... with a description of the system chosen to categorize the examples of music that occur in this study, and the distribution across different categories. It then presents examples of the music mentioned in the accounts, including art music, classical music; artistes and ensembles within art music, religious music...

.... He chose the spirituals, or sorrow songs, for this dance because it was designed to suggest a chronological spectrum of black religious music that would map out rural southern spirituality onto the dance concert stage. Negro Sprituals Revelations choreo work Ailey 1960 Beatty Talley Derby Merle...

...Although an increasingly restricted repertoire for women, religious music is perhaps the most dynamic area of expression for Bukharian Jewish men in New York, closest to the community's newfound religious freedom. Professional singers are increasingly performing religious music as synagogues...