| 书目名称 | The Extravagance of Music | | 编辑 | David‘Brown,Gavin Hopps | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Discusses the power of music, and its ability to convey suggestions of the divine.Challenges the dominant approach to music.Offers a new methodological paradigm for thinking about the religious signif | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | .This book explores the ways in which music can engender religious experience, by virtue of its ability to evoke the ineffable and affect how the world is open to us. Arguing against approaches that limit the religious significance of music to an illustrative function, .The Extravagance of Music. sets out a more expansive and optimistic vision, which suggests that there is an ‘excess’ or ‘extravagance’ in both music and the divine that can open up revelatory and transformative possibilities. In Part I, David Brown argues that even in the absence of words, classical instrumental music can disclose something of the divine nature that allows us to speak of an experience analogous to contemplative prayer. In Part II, Gavin Hopps contends that, far from being a wasteland of mind-closing triviality, popular music frequently aspires to elicit the imaginative engagement of the listener and is capable of evoking intimations of transcendence. Filled with fresh and accessible discussions of diverse examples and forms of music, this ground-breaking book affirms the disclosive and affective capacities of music, and shows how it can help to awaken, vivify, and sustain a sense of the divine in ev | | 出版日期 | Book 2018 | | 关键词 | bach; james macmillan; St Matthew’s Passion; Thomas Browne; Religio Medici | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91818-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-06303-0 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-91818-1 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 |
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