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The Spirituality of Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time [electronic resource] : When Hearing Sacred Music is Relating to God.

By: Publication details: Lewiston : Edwin Mellen Press, 2011.Description: 1 online resource (117 p.)ISBN:
  • 9780773411708 (electronic bk.)
  • 0773411704 (electronic bk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Spirituality of Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Bach's Mass in B Minor, and Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time : When Hearing Sacred Music is Relating to GodDDC classification:
  • 781.7
LOC classification:
  • ML3921 .G74 2011
Online resources:
Contents:
Greene theo; Page 1; Page 2; Greene Theology;
Summary: This book is based around reports from people who have listened to certain pieces of sacred music (that is, pieces with a liturgical text or biblical allusions) and have said that hearing the music is itself an encounter with the divine. While relating to the music, these people find that relating to the music is a relation to God. The music as such becomes inaudible, and disappears into an encounter in which they address and are addressed by God, or the Risen Christ, or the Eternal Infinite. The book's project is to elaborate on these reports, first by dwelling on the meaning of "relation" th.
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Greene theo; Page 1; Page 2; Greene Theology;

This book is based around reports from people who have listened to certain pieces of sacred music (that is, pieces with a liturgical text or biblical allusions) and have said that hearing the music is itself an encounter with the divine. While relating to the music, these people find that relating to the music is a relation to God. The music as such becomes inaudible, and disappears into an encounter in which they address and are addressed by God, or the Risen Christ, or the Eternal Infinite. The book's project is to elaborate on these reports, first by dwelling on the meaning of "relation" th.

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