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The Theology of Handel's Messiah, Beethoven's Credo, and Verdi's Dies Irae [electronic resource] : How Listening to Sung Theology Leads to the Contemplation of God
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Greene, David B.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, -- 1770-1827. -- Missa solemnis. -- Credo.
- Church music.
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Messiah.
- Synagogue music--History and criticism.
- Verdi, Giuseppe, -- 1813-1901. -- Messa da Requiem. -- Dies irae.
- Music--Religious aspects.
- Music.
- Handel, George Frideric.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, 1770-1827. Missa solemnis. Credo.
- Beethoven, Ludwig van.
- Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901. Messa da Requiem. Dies irae.
- Verdi, Giuseppe.
- Local Subjects:
- Beethoven, Ludwig van, -- 1770-1827. -- Missa solemnis. -- Credo.
- Church music.
- Handel, George Frideric, 1685-1759. Messiah.
- Synagogue music--History and criticism.
- Verdi, Giuseppe, -- 1813-1901. -- Messa da Requiem. -- Dies irae.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (132 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston : The Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In pieces of music set to biblical or liturgical texts, the musical connections of one passage or one movement to one another. In a musical sense, these texts have a meaning and significance that can be and often distinct from the meanings achieved by syntactic relationships. Sometimes the syntactic meanings are lost in the musical repetitions and overlapping entries of many voices; in the case of texts for different movements, syntactic relations often simply do not exist. Consequently, the music does not merely parallel or illustrates the text's theological meaning or guide an affective resp
- Contents:
- Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter One: Sacred Music, Theology, and Spirituality; Chapter Two: Hearing Mozart's Mass in C Minor: When Relating to Music is Relating to God; Chapter Three: "Et Resurrexit" from Bach's Mass in B Minor: Meditations on Discontinuous Continuity; Chapter Four: Messiaen, Quartet for the End of Time: New Visions of New Time; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-7734-1168-2
- OCLC:
- 797917348
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