Signs of transcendence and couleur locale. Of Spain and sin : a glance at Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch / Susan Youens ; From paganism to orthodoxy to theosophy : reflections of other worlds in the piano music of Rachmaninov and Scriabin / Anatole Leikin -- Lifting the secular veil. A sermon for fishes in a secular age : on the scherzo movement of Mahler's second symphony / Magnar Breivik ; Music, religious experience, and transcedence in Ben Jonson's Masque of beautie : a case study in collaborative form / Anthony Johnson ; The truth ineffably divine : the loss and recovery of the sacred in Richard Wagner's Parsifal / Robert A. Davis -- Temptation, death, and resurrection. Eschatological aspects in music : The dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar / Eva Maria Jensen ; Wordless songs of love, glory, and resurrection : Musical emblems of the holy in Hindemith's saints / Siglind Bruhn ; The passion according to Penderecki / Danuta Mirka -- The divine breath of worldly music. Spiritual descents and ascents : religious implications in pronounced motion to the subdominant and beyond / Chandler Carter ; Time and divine providence in Mozart's music / Nils Holger Petersen -- Music and the ineffable / Eyolf Østrem. |