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The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen''s Breakthrough Toward the Beyond

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By (author): Sander van Maas

On the basis of a careful analysis of Olivier Messiaen's work, this book argues for a renewal of our thinking about religious music. Addressing his notion of a hyper-religious music of sounds and colors, it aims to show that Messiaen has broken new ground. His reinvention of religious music makes us again aware of the fact that religious music, if taken in its proper radical sense, belongs to the foremost of musical adventures.
The work of Olivier Messiaen is well known for its inclusion of religious themes and gestures. These alone, however, do not seem enough to account for the religious status of the work. Arguing for a breakthrough toward the beyond on the basis of the synaesthetic experience of music, Messiaen invites a confrontation with contemporary theologians and post-secular thinkers. How to account for a religious breakthrough that is produced by a work of art?
Starting from an analysis of his 1960s oratorio La Transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ, this book arranges a moderated dialogue between Messiaen and the music theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar, the phenomenology of revelation of Jean-Luc Marion, the rethinking of religion and technics in Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler, and the Augustinian ruminations of Søren Kierkegaard and Jean-François Lyotard. Ultimately, this confrontation underscores the challenging yet deeply affirmative nature of Messiaen's music.

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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 14 Mar 2012
  • Publisher: Fordham University Press
  • Publication City/Country: United States
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780823230587

About Sander van Maas

Sander van Maas teaches philosophy and music at Utrecht University College the University of Amsterdam and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. His publications include The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaens Breakthrough Toward the Beyond (Fordham University Press 2012) Thresholds of Listening: Sound Technics Space (Fordham University Press 2015) and Contemporary Music and Spirituality (Routledge 2016).

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