Song That I Am

On the Mystery of Music

AvElisabeth-Paule Labat

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

Del 40 i serien Monastic Wisdom Series

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Beskrivning

The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music is a short but full-to-the-brim essay on the decisive role that great music (whether Bach, Tavener, or Gregorian chant) ought to play in the spiritual life. With admirable restraint Élisabeth-Paule Labat shares her interior experience of music and thus continually opens up fresh vistas through worlds of sound and spirit. With her uncanny gift of language, Labat precisely describes soundings and yearnings of the soul that many of us glimpse fleetingly. Because "only the lover sings" (St. Augustine), her final illumination is that the experience of profound music ought to transform us into the beauty that we hear.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-04-02
Mått:140 x 215 x 10 mm
Vikt:189 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Monastic Wisdom Series
Antal sidor:160
Förlag:Liturgical Press
ISBN:9780879070601
Översättare:Varden OCSO, Erik, Varden, Erik

Utforska kategorier

Religiös och sakral musik inom Kultur
Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Kristendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Élisabeth-Paule Labat (1897–1975) was born in Tarbes, France. After the Great War, she moved to Paris and studied at the Schola Cantorum. A brilliant pianist and composer, Labat also studied Gregorian chant. In 1922 she entered the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Michel de Kergonan in Brittany, and took Élisabeth as her religious name. Labat is also author of Presence of God (Paulist Press, 1980).

Recensioner i media

“A breathtaking surge of inspired (and learned) exploration, triggered by the sound of a violin playing Mozart during an evening walk in wartime - pithy, challenging, and quite fascinating, carrying us, through music, towards ‘not something, but Someone.’”Jennifer Smith. Professor at the Royal College of Music, London

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsTranslator’s Preface ixIntroduction xxviiOn Music Considered as Language 1Situating the Perception of Beauty 28Music, Relation, and Tears 48Music and Ultimate Values 55Music’s Mission 74Music and the Sacred 80Music and Liturgy 92The Music of Eternity 108