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Messiaen's Interpretations of Holiness and Trinity: Echoes of Medieval Theology in the Oratorio, Organ Meditations, and Opera (Dimension and Diversity: Studies in 20th-Century Music)

Messiaen's Interpretations of Holiness and Trinity: Echoes of Medieval Theology in the Oratorio, Organ Meditations, and Opera (Dimension and Diversity: Studies in 20th-Century Music)

zoom enlarge 		Author: Siglind Bruhn
Publisher: Pendragon Pr
Category: Book

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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 229
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.8

ISBN: 157647139X
Dewey Decimal Number: 780.92
EAN: 9781576471395
ASIN: 157647139X

Publication Date: November 1, 2008
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Product Description
Three of Olivier Messiaen s later works, La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jesus-Christ, Meditations sur le mystere de la Sainte Trinite, and Saint Francois d Assise, are linked by the fact that the composer refers to and quotes from Thomas Aquinas. The composer s reception of Thomistic texts is one of the principles guiding the interpretations in this study. On the one hand, Messiaen had been pondering Thomas s thoughts on the role of music in the life of a Christian and on music s possible spiritual content all through his professional life; on the other hand, the oratorio, the organ meditations, and the opera are the only works in which Messiaen quotes extensive Thomistic sentences addressing purely theological subject matter. The first aspect, Messiaen s appropriation of or felicitous congruence with the medieval theologian s views on music underlies all analyses as a kind of background fabric. The second aspect, Messiaen s quotations from the Summa theologica and their musical translation, determines segments of a larger discussion that, in the book s three main chapters, attempts to do justice to the compositions as a whole. While Thomas theological aesthetics appears as a thread woven through a texture in a way that brings it only periodically to the foreground, the statements from Thomas s writings provide essential foundations determining the works content and its musical rendering.

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