Music and Spirituality / / Thérèse Smith [and nine others].

• VerfasserIn: Smith, Thérèse,
• Place / Publishing House: Basel : : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute,, 2015.
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (210 pages) :; illustrations

Across time and geography people have known the power of music for evoking the gods and acquiring spiritual insight. Whether arising as a textless chant by a single voice or a percussive auditory context for ritual dance, music in its various modes is a virtually ubiquitous companion to religious and spiritual practices. The apparently intangible, insubstantial nature of sound is one of the reasons why music has so effectively symbolized the mysterious and wholly other since the dawn of creation. Not only an accompaniment to one's spiritual trek, musical compositions from the great oratorios of Handel to the soundtrack to the movie Lord of the Rings also serve as powerful metaphors and inspirations for that journey.

Table of Contents

Music and Spirituality - Introduction -- The Offence of Beauty in Modern Western Art Music -- Can Music "Mirror" God? A Theological-Hermeneutical exploration of Music in the Light of Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel -- A Perfect Chord: Trinity in Music, Music in the Trinity -- The Seraphim above: Some Perspectives on the Theology of Orthodox Church Music -- Music and Spirituality: Reflections from a Western Christian Perspective -- Dominican Chant and Dominican Identity -- The Liturgical Use of the Organ in the Sixteenth Century: The Judgments of Cajetan and the Dominican Order -- "To Sing with the Spirit:" Psalms, Hymns and the Spirituality of Late Eighteenth Century American Presbyterians -- "There is a Higher Height in the Lord": Music, Worship, and Communication with God -- Elvis' Gospel Music: Between the Secular and the Spiritual? -- Are Spiritual Experiences through Music seen as Intrinsic or Extrinsic?