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Wilfrid Mellers
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Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published
December 2001
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Author
Wilfrid Mellers
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published
December 2001
£29.79
Save 40%
Free UK Delivery
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Celestial Music?
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Wilfrid Mellers, who occupies a special place among music critics, describes himself as a non-believer; but his preference for music that 'displays a sense of the numinous' (in his words) will strike a chord with many who listen to religious music nowadays, and who share his view that music that confronts first and last things is likely to offer more than music that evades them. The essays form five groups, which together offer a survey of religious music from around the first millennium to the beginning of the second, in the context of the difficult issues of what religious music is, and, for good measure, what is religion? The parts are: The Ages of Christian Faith; The Re-birth of a Re-birth: From Renaissance to High Baroque; From Enlightenment to Doubt; From 'the Death of God' to 'the Unanswered Question; and The Ancient Law and the Modern Mind. Musical discussion, with copious examples, is conducted throughout the book in a context that is also religious - and indeed philosophical, social, and political, with the open-endedness that such an approach demands in the presentation of ideas about music's most fundamental nature and purposes.
COMPOSERS: Hildegard of Bingen; Perotin; Machaut; Dunstable, Dufay; William Corniyshes father and son; Tallis; Byrd; Monteverdi; Schutz; J.S. Bach; Couperin; Handel; Haydn; Mozart; Beethoven; Schubert; Bruckner; Berlioz, Faure; Verdi, Brahms; Elgar, Delius; Holst, Vaughan Williams, Howells; Britten; Janacek; Messiaen, Poulenc; Rachmaninov; Stravinsky; Part, Tavener, Gorecki, Macmillan, Finnissy; Copland.
Author
Wilfrid Mellers
Book Format
Hardback
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Published
December 2001
Weight
654g
Page Count
336
Dimensions
156 x 234 x 21 mm
ISBN
9780851158440
ISBN-10
0851158447
Eden Code
4586511
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Author/Creator: Wilfrid Mellers
ISBN: 9780851158440
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Release Date: December 2001
Weight: 654g
Dimensions: 156 x 234 x 21 mm
Eden Code: 4586511