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Absolute Infinitude
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Beethoven Exhibition
Beethoven's Late Style
Beethoven’s Late Style
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Chronic
E-flat Major
Early German Romanticism
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Essential Possibility
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Frankish Kingdom
Gogh
Gregorian Chant
Gustav Klimt
Haydn's String Quartet
Haydn’s String Quartet
Iconic Distance
Immanent Transcendence
Krishna's Flute
Krishna’s Flute
Mark Evan Bonds
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Ombra Adorata
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Peter Kivy
Political Song
Timeless
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Vienna Court Opera
Vincent Van Gogh
Product details
- ISBN 9781472415950
- Weight: 658g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2015
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Music and Transcendence explores the ways in which music relates to transcendence by bringing together the disciplines of musicology, philosophy and theology, thereby uncovering congruencies between them that have often been obscured. Music has the capacity to take one outside of oneself and place one in relation to that which is ’other’. This ’other’ can be conceived in an ’absolute’ sense, insofar as music can be thought to place the self in relation to a divine ’other’ beyond the human frame of existence. However, the ’other’ can equally well be conceived in an ’immanent’ (or secular) sense, as music is a human activity that relates to other cultural practices. Music here places the self in relation to other people and to the world more generally, shaping how the world is understood, without any reference to a God or gods. The book examines how music has not only played a significant role in many philosophical and theological accounts of the nature of existence and the self, but also provides a valuable resource for the creation of meaning on a day-to-day basis.
Férdia J. Stone-Davis is an interdisciplinary academic working at the intersection of music, philosophy and theology. She is author of Musical Beauty: Negotiating the Boundary between Subject and Object (2011), and co-editor of The Soundtrack of Conflict: The Role of Music in Radio Broadcasting in Wartime and in Conflict Situations (2013).
