Reinvention of Religious Music Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond

Name: Reinvention of Religious Music Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond
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ISBN: 9780823230587

ISBN-10: 0823230589

ISBN-13: 9780823230587

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Authors: Sander Van Maas

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Present-day music studies conspicuously evade the question of religion in contemporary music. Although many composers address the issue in their work, as yet there have been few attempts to think through the structure of religious music as we hear it.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…

Book details

List price: $47.95
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Publication date: 2/1/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 242
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

SANDER VAN MAAS is Professor of Musicology at the University of Utrecht. He is the author of The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward the Beyond (Fordham).