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Voicing the ineffable: musical representations of religious experience

Siglind Bruhn
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  • Contents

  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction (Siglind Bruhn, page iii)
  • Part I: Signs of Transcendence and couleur locale
    • Of Spain and Sin: A Glance at Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch (Susan Youens, page 3)
    • From Paganism to Orthodoxy to Theosophy: Reflections of Other Worlds in the Piano Music of Rachmaninov and Scriabin (Anatole Leikin, page 25)
  • Part II: Lifting the Secular Veil
    • A Sermon for Fishes in a Secular Age: On the Scherzo Movement of Mahler's Second Symphony (Magnar Breivik, page 47)
    • Music, Religious Experience, and Transcendence in Ben Jonson's Masque of Beautie: A Case Study in Collaborative Form (Anthony Johnson, page 71)
    • The Truth Ineffably Divine: The Loss and Recovery of the Sacred in Richard Wagner's Parsifal (Robert A. Davis, page 97)
  • Part III: Temptation, Death, and Resurrection
    • Eschatological Aspects in Music: The Dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar (Eva Maria Jensen, page 133)
    • Wordless Songs of Love, Glory, and Resurrection: Musical Emblems of the Holy in Hindemith's Saints (Siglind Bruhn, page 157)
    • The Passion According to Penderecki (Danuta Mirka, page 189)
  • Part IV: The Divine Breath of Worldly Music
    • Spiritual Descents and Ascents: Religious Implications in Pronounced Motion to the Subdominant and Beyond (Chandler Carter, page 233)
    • Time and Divine Providence in Mozart's Music (Nils Holger Petersen, page 265)
    • Music and the Ineffable (Eyolf Østrem, page 287)
  • The Contributors (page 313)
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Published: c2002
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Copyright Holder: Pendragon Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781576470893 (paper)
Subject
  • Music & Musicology
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