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 God

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Label

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 God

Title remainder

When Hearing Sacred Music is Relating to God

Creator

• Greene, David B

Subject

• Music -- Religious aspects
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, 1756-1791
• Messiaen, Olivier, 1908-1992
• Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750

Language

eng

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

Dewey number

781.7

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries