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The Reinvention of Religious Music : Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond / Sander van Maas.

Maas, Sander van, author.
2012
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Title
The Reinvention of Religious Music : Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond / Sander van Maas.
Author
Maas, Sander van, author.
ISBN
9780823238576
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823238576
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2012]
Copyright
©2012
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource (242 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823238576 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
781.70092
Summary
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 us again aware of the fact that religious music, if taken in its proper radical sense, belongs to the foremost of musical adventures.The work of Olivier Messiaen is well known for its inclusion of religious themes and gestures. These alone, however, do not seem enough to account for the religious status of the work. Arguing for a "breakthrough toward the beyond" on the basis of the synaesthetic experience of music, Messiaen invites a confrontation with contemporary theologians and post-secular thinkers. How to account for a religious breakthrough that is produced by a work of art?Starting from an analysis of his 1960s oratorio La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, this book arranges a moderated dialogue between Messiaen and the music theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the phenomenology of revelation of Jean-Luc Marion, the rethinking of religion and technics in Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, and the Augustinian ruminations of Søren Kierkegaard and Jean-François Lyotard. Ultimately, this confrontation underscores the challenging yet deeply affirmative nature of Messiaen's music.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. It Is a Glistening Music We Seek
2. Five Times Breakthrough
3. Balthasar and the Religion of Music
4. The Gift of Dazzlement
5. The Technics of Breakthrough
6. The Circumcision of the Ear
Epilogue: On Affirmation
Notes
Bibliography

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