Drawing upon three decades of research in European sacred music, Philip V. Bohlman calls for a re-examination of European modernity in the twenty first century, a modernity shaped no less by canonic religious and musical practices than by the proliferation of belief systems that…
Drawing upon three decades of research in European sacred music, Philip V. Bohlman calls for a re-examination of European modernity in the twenty first century, a modernity shaped no less by canonic religious and musical practices than by the proliferation of belief systems that…
"Sacred music has long contributed fundamentally to the making of Europe. The passage from origin myths to history, the sacred journeys that have mobilized pilgrims, crusaders, and colonizers, the politics and power sounded by the vox populi—all have joined in counterpoint to sh…
Drawing upon three decades of research in European sacred music, Philip V. Bohlman calls for a re-examination of European modernity in the twenty first century, a modernity shaped no less by canonic religious and musical practices than by the proliferation of belief systems that…
Messiaen the theologian
"For Olivier Messiaen, music was a way of expressing his faith. He considered it his good fortune to have been born a Catholic and declared that 'the illumination of the theological truths of the Catholic faith is the first aspect of my work, the noblest and no doubt the most us…
Messiaen the theologian
For Olivier Messiaen, music was a way of expressing his faith. He considered it his good fortune to have been born a Catholic and declared that 'the illumination of the theological truths of the Catholic faith is the first aspect of my work, the noblest and no doubt the most use…
This work presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia. It covers ancient Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from approximately 3000 BCE to ar…
This work presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia. It covers ancient Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from approximately 3000 BCE to ar…
This work presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia. It covers ancient Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and ancient Egypt, focusing on the period from approximately 3000 BCE to ar…
Music in Religious Cults of the Ancient Near East presents the first extended discussion of the relationship between music and cultic worship in ancient western Asia. The book covers ancient Israel and Judah, the Levant, Anatolia, Mesopotamia, Elam, and ancient Egypt, focusing o…
In the early twentieth century, a religious and cultural renewal movement took hold in the Evangelical Church (Lutheran) in Germany. As a result, music from the masters of the Renaissance and Baroque period saw new popularity in the church. Upon winning his first church position…
Although Baldassare Galuppi was arguably the best known and most successful Italian composer of the eighteenth century, his name, his history, and his works have been relinquished to the periphery of the historiographical narrative. While Galuppi's masses, operas, and solo motet…
This dissertation examines English musical modernism through the lens of Benjamin Britten’s engagement with the sacred, focussing on his affinity for sacred and liturgical imagery both on and off the stage, and inside and outside of the church. Although Britten’s oeuvre is shot …
For Roman Catholic Church choral directors, to date there is no single resource devoted to sacred choral music for the Roman Catholic Mass that matches all the official texts of three liturgical books: Roman Missal, Graduale Romanum, and Lectionary for Mass, for the celebration …
Richard Wayne Dirksen (1921–2003) was affiliated in various ways with the music of Washington National Cathedral from 1942 to1991.