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The Reinvention of Religious Music Olivier Messiaen’s Breakthrough Toward the Beyond Sander van Maas $55.00
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The work of Olivier Messiaen is well known for its inclusion of religious
themes and gestures. On the basis of a careful analysis of Messiaen’s
work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music.
Starting from an analysis of his 1960s oratorio La Transfiguration de
Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, van Maas arranges a moderated dialogue
between Messiaen and the music theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the
phenomenology of revelation of Jean-Luc Marion, the rethinking of religion
and technics in Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, and the Augustinian
ruminations of Søren Kierkegaard and Jean-François Lyotard. Ultimately,
this confrontation underscores the challenging yet deeply affirmative
nature of Messiaen’s music.
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