The Reinvention of Religious Music – Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond. By Sander van Maas
This study of the theological aesthetics of the French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) is itself a breakthrough; first because its interdisciplinary nature demands expertise across musicology as well as theology, and secondly, because it confronts the slippage and at times apparent contradiction...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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Literature and theology
Year: 2011, Volume: 25, Issue: 3, Pages: 350-352 |
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| Summary: | This study of the theological aesthetics of the French composer Olivier Messiaen (1908–92) is itself a breakthrough; first because its interdisciplinary nature demands expertise across musicology as well as theology, and secondly, because it confronts the slippage and at times apparent contradiction within Messiaen's own (copiously written) theology and aesthetics, when he speaks as composer, commentator and believer. Thirdly, and most importantly, it ventures into a meeting place of secular aesthetics and an implicitly Christian theology. Van Maas faces these dilemmas squarely and rigorously. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frr013 |