Modernism and Orthodox spirituality in contemporary music
By: Ivan Moody
Series: Publications of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music -- no. 5; Publications of the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Publications of the International Society for Orthodox Church Music -- no. 5.; Publications of the Institute of Musicology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts
Publisher: International Society for Orthodox Church Music; Institute of Musicology, Serbian Academy of Science and Arts
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Joensuu, Finland; Belgrade
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9789529988341
Subjects: Music; History and criticism; Orthodox Eastern Church
Description: Modernism and the spirituality of the Orthodox Church may seem to be polar opposites, the one innovating and fragmenting, the other rooted in an unchanging tradition. As this groundbreaking book shows, however, the reality is more complex. Composers from traditionally Orthodox societies such as Greece, Bulgaria, Russia and Serbia have found fruitful artistic meeting points between these two poles, rooting the one and refreshing the other, even in the darkest times of political oppression. In addtion, much of the work of such composers as Arvo Pärt, Einojuhani Rautavaara and John Tavener has arisen precisely from this meeting point. It is this paradox that is investigated here.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1.; title: Introduction.; title: Background and context ;; title: Orthodoxy and art ;; title: Modernisms -- -- Chapter 2.; title: Byzantine melodies.; title: Historical background ;; title: Byzantine nationalism ;; title: Byzantine morphologies -- -- Chapter 3.; title: Easter music : Bulgaria -- -- Chapter 4.; title: Songs of space : Serbia.; title: Historical background ;; title: Mokranjac and after ;; title: Renewing the tradition -- -- Chapter 5.; title: Icons inverted : Russian and beyond.; title: Introduction ;; title: The emigrés ;; title: In Russia after the revolution ;; title: Ustvolskaya ;; title: Denisov ;; title: Gubaidulina ;; title: Schnittke ;; title: Georgia, Ukraine ;; title: Russia - the generation of the 1940s ;; title: To the present : from the modern to the postmodern -- -- Chapter 6.; title: Finland and Rautavaara.; title: Historical background -- -- Chapter 7.; title: Tabula rasa : Arvo Pärt.; title: Biographical sketch ;; title: Works ;; title: The modernist background ;; title: "Tintinnabuli" ;; title: East and west -- -- Chapter 8.; title: Towards silence : John Tavener.; title: Celtic requiem ;; title: Últimos ritos ;; title: Thérèse ;; title: After Thérèse ;; title: Ikon and Vigil ;; title: Tradition and traditions --; title: Epilogue.