Messiaen the theologian /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Shenton, Andrew, 1962-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England : Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., [2010]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Religious literature in Messiaen's personal library / Yves Balmer
  • Messiaen as preacher and evangelist in the context of European modernism / Peter Bannister
  • Messiaen's saintly naïveté / Sander von Maas
  • Olivier Messiaen and Cardinal Jean-Marie Lustiger : Two views of the liturgical reform according to the second vatican council / Karin Heller
  • Messiaen's relationship to Jacques Maritain's musical circle and neo-thomism / Douglas Shadle
  • Messiaen and Aquinas / Vincent P. Benitez
  • Dante as guide to Messiaen's gothic spirituality / Robert Fallon
  • Five quartets : The search for the still point of the turning world in the war quartets of T.S. Eliot and Olivier Messiaen / Andrew Shenton
  • The charm of impossibilities : Mystic surrealism as contemplative voluptuousness / Stephen Schloesser
  • 'Une œuvre simple, solennelle...' : Messiaen's commission from André Malraux / Nigel Simeone
  • Olivier Messiaen and the avant-garde poetics of the Messe de la Pentecôte / Robert Sholl
  • Messiaen as explorer in Livre du Saint Sacrement / Luke Berryman
  • Buddhist temple, Shinto Shrine and the invisible god of Sept Haïkaï / Cheong Wai Ling.