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The sacred in music / by Albert L. Blackwell.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML3865 .B53 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Blackwell, Albert L.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music--Religious aspects.
- Music.
- Music--Philosophy and aesthetics.
- Physical Description:
- 255 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Louisville, KY : Westminster John Knox Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Religion and music are complementary resources for interpreting our lives. Music serves the sacred in ways that can be specified and articulated; some believe it can help us appreciate God's greatness. Yet the connection has been neglected in the scholarly study of religion.
- The Sacred in Music brings the two subjects together in a celebration of the rich Western musical tradition, both classical and Christian. Albert Blackwell shows how appreciation of music can help interpret theological traditions with greater sensitivity to their insights and applications. He then presents a description of the concept of sacramental experience, and describes and explores two great Christian sacramental traditions, showing their regard for music as a gift from God--who thus places the essence of the divine in human minds.
- Contents:
- Basic Modalities and Methods
- Basic Presuppositions and Predilections
- Musical Predilections
- Religious Predilections
- Culture and Language
- Analysis and Practice
- I. Sacramental Traditions 25
- Sacramental Encounter
- Divine Eminence and Divine Immanence
- Two Sacramental Traditions
- The Pythagorean Tradition
- The Incarnational Tradition
- II. Creation: Transcending Contingency 49
- The Pythagorean Tradition: Music's Sacramental Silence
- Pythagorean Intervals
- The Overtone Series
- Division of the Diapason
- Melody and Harmony
- Musical Particularity and Universality
- Religious Particularity and Universality
- Beyond Contingency: Trusting Divine Logos
- Music, Mathematics, and Transcendence
- III. Creation: Manifesting Transcendence 91
- The Incarnational Tradition: Music's Sacramental Sound
- On Balancing the Pythagorean and Incarnational Traditions
- Emotion and Meaning
- Divine Artistry and Human Artistry
- Mozart and Deconstruction
- Mozart and Transcendence
- Creativity as Covenant
- IV. Fall: Enduring Time 125
- From Harmony to Babel
- Christian Ambivalence toward Music
- Time's Terrible Beauty
- Music's Dark Resources
- Tonal Tension
- Dissonance
- Interference
- Minor Modes
- Music as Virtual Life
- Music and Silence
- Music and Noise
- Music and Chaos
- Music and Life's Pilgrimage
- Sacred Music: Evaluation and Taste
- Music and Theodicy
- V. Salvation: Sustaining Harmony 159
- Can Beauty Save Us?
- Music and Goodness
- Music and Truth
- Music and Beauty
- Idol, Distraction, Offering, or Grace?
- Music's Power to Heal and to Harm
- Cosmic Harmony
- Harmony: Individual and Social
- Social Sharing and Immediate Experience
- Temperament: Musical and Communal
- VI. Final Bliss: Surpassing Language 199
- Hope for Harmony
- Varieties of Mystical Experience
- Outwardly and Inwardly Oriented Mysticisms
- Meanings of Transcendence
- Communion with Transcendence
- Mysticisms of Knowledge and of Love
- Musical Illustrations
- Beyond Verbal Language
- Music and Transcendence
- Intimacy
- Penetration
- Fulfilment
- Silence or Succour?
- Music and the Numinous
- A Sacramental Vessel
- Quieting
- Preparing
- Abasing
- Attracting
- Constituting
- Proclaiming
- Celebrating
- Music and Final Bliss.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 0664221718
- OCLC:
- 43472977
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