Contemporary Music and Spirituality by Robert Sholl

Contemporary Music and Spirituality by Robert Sholl

Contemporary Music and Spirituality provides a detailed exploration of the recent and current state of contemporary spiritual music in its religious, musical, cultural and conceptual-philosophical aspects.

Robert Sholl teaches at the Royal Academy of Music and at the University of West London. He has published on a wide range of twentieth-century music. He was editor of Messiaen Studies, and has recently written on Arvo Pärt, Stravinsky’s Le Sacre du Printemps, Messiaen and Berio. As an organist Robert has given recitals at St Paul's Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Notre-Dame de Paris, and at the Madeleine, and he will perform all of Messiaen's organ music in 2016-17. Sander van Maas is Assistant Professor of Musicology at the University of Amsterdam, previously Endowed Full Professor of Dutch Contemporary Composed Music at Utrecht University, and he has held visiting positions at Boston University, Harvard and the University of West London. He is author of The Reinvention of Religious Music: Olivier Messiaen's Breakthrough Toward The Beyond and editor of Thresholds of Listening: Sound, Technics, Space.

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ISBN 13	9780367229481
ISBN 10	036722948X
Title	Contemporary Music and Spirituality
Author	Robert Sholl
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Routledge
Year published	2019-02-04
Number of pages	364
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