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The Extravagance of Music
Hardcover
ISBN13: 9783319918174
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jul 26 2018
Pages: 325
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
1. INTRODUCTION: AN ART OPEN TO THE DIVINE
The Extravagance of Music
Ancestral Conceptions of Music
The Pythagorean Tradition
The Orphic Tradition
The Extravagance of the Divine
Prospectus
Part One: God and Classical Sounds
2. A GENEROUS EXCESS
The Divine at Work beyond Scripture
The Possibility of Music as Encounter
Types of Aesthetic Experience and Their Relation to Religion
Competing Types of Aesthetic Evaluation and Experience
Religious Perspectives Interacting with Aesthetic Criteria
Music in the Context of Words: Setting Divine Encounters to Music
Interim Conclusion
3. TYPES OF EXTRAVAGANCE
Order and the Music of the Spheres: Haydn, Mozart, and Bach
A Sense of Transcendence: Beethoven and Led Zeppelin
Divine Immanence: Beethoven, Sibelius and Debussy, and the Creed's Incarnatus
Divine Immanence in Nature
Immanence and the Incarnatus est of the Creed
The Mystery of the Divine Life: Minimalism, Bruckner, Liszt and Franck
Transcending Time
Serenity, Majesty, Ecstatic Joy
Specifics: Coltrane on Generosity, Schubert on Suffering, Massenet on Suicide
4. DISCOVERING GOD IN MUSIC'S EXCESS
Giving Sense to the Encounter
From the Human Side: Knowledge and Emotion
From the Divine Side: Developing a Philosophy of Presence
Restraints on Such Experience
Part Two: Popular Music and the Opening up of Religious Experience
5. CULTURED DESPISERS
The Cloistral Refuge of Music
Pop Pollution
God's Love of Adverbs
The Wonder of Minor Experiences
Dancing 'with' and Dancing 'at'
What Has Graceland to Do with Jerusalem?
Theological Imperialism
Aesthetic Hospitality
The Wandering of the Semantic
One Size Fits All
Too Much Heaven?
Rehabilitating Lightness
The World 'in front of' the Text
The Spiritual Assets of Tackiness
Cultural Pessimism
6. SPILT RELIGION
The Listener's Share
Unheard Melodies
Only Connect
Jordan: The Comeback
The Word in the Desert
Post-Secular Popular Music
The In-Between
The Impure Sacred
Oxymoronic Postures
Metaphysical Shuddering
Ontological Exuberance
Ludic Avowal
Subjunctive Explorations
Being in Darkness
The Interlocuted Listener
Secular Forms and Sacred Effects
Musical Hyperbole
The Moment out of Time
The Swarming Forms of the Banal
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