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Anáil Dé (the breath of God) : music, ritual and spirituality / edited by Helen Phelan.

Contributor(s): Phelan, Helen.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Dublin : Veritas, 2001Description: 218 p. ; 22 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 1853905976.Subject(s): Church music -- Ireland | Music therapyDDC classification: 782.3
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Explores the threads of connection woven through music, ritual and spiritual expression. Drawing on the worlds of performance studies, ethnomusicology, music therapy, ritual studies, theology, liturgy, and philosophy, this interdisciplinary volume presen

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Contributors (p. 3)
  • Introduction (p. 7)
  • Part I Ritual and Spirituality
  • 1 Global Spirituality and Ritual (p. 17)
  • 2 Voices of Ancestors: Music and Spirituality in the Global Marketplace (p. 26)
  • Part II Music and Ritual
  • 3 Form and Ritual: A Comparison between Sequential and Cyclic Musical Structures and their use in Liturgy (p. 37)
  • 4 Amor Loci: Theory and Method in the Study of Christian Ritual Music (p. 55)
  • Part III Irish Spirituality and Music
  • 5 Evidence for Music in the Medieval Irish Liturgy: A Survey (p. 71)
  • 6 Some Dimensions of Early Irish Piety (p. 81)
  • Part IV Gregorian and Orthodox Chant - Personal Profiles
  • 7 Western Plainchant (p. 101)
  • 8 Byzantine Chant (p. 105)
  • Part V Music and Creativity
  • 9 Heidegger's Reading of Poetry: Art as Spiritual Exploration (p. 121)
  • 10 The Singing Body: Music, Spirit and Creativity (p. 140)
  • Part VI Music and Theology
  • 11 Charles Tournemire: A Study in Spontaneity and the Theology of the Catholic Liturgy (p. 151)
  • 12 Church Music and the Reformation (p. 163)
  • 13 The Sound of God (p. 177)
  • Part VII Aesthetics, Science and Healing
  • 14 Towards a Definition of 'Good' Liturgical Music (p. 189)
  • 15 Music as Therapy: The Sounds of Healing (p. 201)