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E-book Annunciations : Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century

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In Sacred Music in Secular Society, Jonathan Arnold highlights a strange phenomenon: ‘the seeming paradox that, in today’s so-called secular society, sacred choral music is as powerful, compelling and popular as it has ever been’.1 The explosion of new media through the internet and digital technology has created a new, broader audience for ‘the creative art of Renaissance polyphony and its successors to the present day’, a genre of sacred music that seems to have ‘an enduring appeal for today’s culture’.2Arnold suggests, moreover, that sacred choral music is thriving in Anglican worship: although attendance continues to decline in general, he cites the rise at religious services sung by professional choirs in British cathedrals over the last two decades.3In 2015, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, while acknowledging the tension in Catholic music-making following the Second Vatican Council, reaffirmed his conviction that ‘great sacred music is a reality of theological stature and of permanent significance for the faith of the whole of Christianity, even if it is by no means necessary that it be performed always and everywhere’.4 Whether in churches or in secular spaces, then, sacred music continues to be a significant part of many people’s experience of, and theoretical reflection on, Christian faith and music today. A foremost contemporary composer of sacred choral music for both secular performances and for Christian worship is James MacMillan.5 In 2015, he was appointed as a part-time professor at the University of St Andrews, in the School of Divinity’s Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA). MacMillan sees music — with its special relationship to spirituality — as a medium which may lead the reintegration of theology and the other arts: ‘The discussion, the dialogue, between theology and the arts’, he comments, ‘is not some peripheral thing that some have claimed it has been, but it actually might have been a very central thing in the development of the way that we think of our culture’.6 Collaborating with MacMillan provided me with the stimulus for a new research project — ‘Annunciations: Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century’ — that sought to contribute to the fostering of sacredchoral music in the future, as well as to interrogate, more broadly, the relationship between theology and music.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

780.72 JAN a

Penerbit

London : Open Book Publishers., 2019

Deskripsi Fisik

397 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9781783747283

Klasifikasi

780.72

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Musicology

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

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