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Record Nr.

UNINA9910452513903321

Autore

Troeger Thomas H. <1945->

Titolo

Music as prayer : the theology and practice of church music / / Thomas H. Troeger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Oxford University Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-19-933009-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (108 p.)

Disciplina

246/.75

Soggetti

Music in churches

Music - Religious aspects - Christianity

Church music

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; 1. Music and the Making of Meaning; Music and Metaphor; When the World Falls Apart; Salutary Harmonies; The Great Mighty Ocean Tone; Plucked from the Universe; The Deeper Meaning of Inspiring Music; The Whole Company of Musicians; Church Organist Declared Greatest Composer; How Do You Sing Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus?; To What End Beauty?; 2. The Materiality of Making Music; The Stone Age Ancestors of Organists; Music that Can Never Be Recorded; The Piece You Thought You Would Never Play; How Beautiful and Astounding Are the Feet

The Freedom of ConstraintSilence as the Prelude to Sound; The Rhetoric of Breath; Before the First Note: Getting Centered; Wrong Notes in a Splendid Performance; 3. Music and the Landscape of the Soul; Study Tour of the Human Soul; Musical Hometown; An Antidote to Cognitive Imperialism; The Necessity of Beauty; Children of Process; Escaping the Hubris of the Present Moment; The Perfect Registration; Music for Facing Temptation and Wild Beasts; Season of Lament; Unacknowledged Healing; Plain and Simple, Rich and Complex; A Gigue for Everyone to Dance; 4. Music for the Seasons of Faith

Waiting as BlessingRehearsing for an Epiphany; A New Song for



Christmas?; Song that Blesses Earth; New Year's Resolution: Not Exactly as the Composer Wanted; Music Born of Resurrection; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

Music as Prayer explores the spiritual and theological character of church music. Author Thomas H. Troeger--a theologian, preacher, poet and flutist-traces how making and listening to music can be an act of prayer, a way of sensing the irrepressible resilience of the divine vitalities, in down-to-earth language that everyone can enjoy. The book employs a wide range of perspectives: from scientific observations about the effect of music on the brain, to the insights of early church fathers about the place of music in worship, to the compositions of great composers and their reflections upon the