[1]Music and Transcendence
Edited by Férdia J. Stone-Davis
August 2015
272 pages
This collection of essays explores the ways in which music relates to transcendence by bringing together the disciplines of musicology, philosophy and theology. 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’ or can equally well be conceived in an ‘immanent’ (or secular) sense. Contributors examine how music has not only played a 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.
Contents:
Introduction
Férdia J. Stone-Davis
Part I Music and Absolute Transcendence:
Music and the beyond in the later Middle Ages
Christopher Page
Hearing the transcendental place: sound, spirituality and sensuality in the musical practices of an
Indian devotional order
Sukanya Sarbadhikary
‘Sonorous air’: the transcendent in Ferruccio Busoni’s aesthetics of music
John Habron
Creatio ex improvisatione: Chrétien on the call
Bruce Ellis Benson
Unwritten theology. Notes towards a natural theology of music
Russell Re Manning
Music and the transcendental
Roger Scruton
Theomusical subjectivity: Schleiermacher and the transcendence of immediacy
Jonas Lundblad
Negotiating musical transcendence
Jeremy S. Begbie
Part II Music and Immanent Transcendence:
C.P.E. Bach’s Heilig and ‘the Holy’ of Rudolf Otto: an 18th-century experience of the Mysterium Tremendum
Joshua A. Waggener
Music and world-making: Haydn’s String Quartet in E-flat major (op. 33 no. 2)
Férdia J. Stone-Davis
Music and Immanence: the 1902 ‘Klinger: Beethoven Exhibition’ and the Vienna Secession
Diane V. Silverthorne
‘Where nature will speak to them in sacred sounds’: music and transcendence in Hoffmann’s Kreisleriana
Thomas J. Mulherin
Religious music as child’s play: Gadamer’s hermeneutics and instrumental music
Oane Reitsma
Immanence, transcendence and political song
Christopher Norris
Music, transcendence, and philosophy
Andrew Bowie
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