Music and transcendence
By: edited by Férdia J. Stone-Davis
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Farnham, Surrey, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9781472415950; 9781472415967; 9781472415974
Subjects: Music and philosophy; Music; Religious aspects; Transcendence (Philosophy)
Notes: Papers originally presented at an international conference held at the Cambridge Union and sponsored by Anglia Ruskin University and the British Society of Aesthetics

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-247) and index.
Table of contents: title: Music and absolute transcendence. Music and the beyond in the later Middle Ages / Christopher Page ; Hearing the transcendental place : sound, spirituality and sensuality in the musical practices of an Indian devotional order / Sukanya Sarbadhikary ; "Sonorous air" : the transcendent in Ferruccio Busoni's Aesthetics of music / John Habron ; Creatio ex improvisatio : Chrétien on the call / Bruce Ellis Benson ; Unwritten theology : notes towards a natural theology of music / Russell Re Manning ; Music and the transcendental / Roger Scruton ; Theomusical subjectivity : Schleiermacher and the transcendence of immediacy / Jonas Lundblad ; Negotiating musical transcendence / Jeremy S. Begbie; title: Music and immanent transcendence. C.P.E. Bach's heilig and "the holy" of Rudolf Otto : an eighteenth-century experience of the mysterium tremendum / Joshua A. Waggener ; Music and world-making : Haydn's string quartet in E flat major, op. 33 no. 2 / Férdia J. Stone-Davis ; Music and immanence : the 1902 "Beethoven exhibition" and the Vienna secession / Diane V. Silverthorne; title: "Where nature will speak to them in sacred sounds" : music and transcendence in E.T.A. Hoffmann / Thomas J. Mulherin ; Religious music as child's play : Gadame's hermeneutics and instrumental music / Oane Reitsma ; Immanence, transcendence and political song / Christopher Norris ; Music, transcendence and philosophy / Andrew Bowie.