Voicing the Ineffable(English, Paperback, Bruhn Siglind)

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Voicing the Ineffable(English, Paperback, Bruhn Siglind) is written by Bruhn Siglind and published by Pendragon Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 157647089X (ISBN 10) and 9781576470893 (ISBN 13).

The relationship between music and religion has long been a delineated one. Up to the late Middle Ages, music employed for ritual expressions of faith in sacred contexts was contrasted with secular music, then mostly played in open spaces. The former was believed to aid in the communication of divine truths, while the latter was suspected of arousing sensuality and thus potentially leading away from the spiritual perspective of life. In subsequent centuries, music entered first the courtly salons, then the concert hall and the home. Such music, created for virtuoso performance or for the enjoyment in private chambers, occasionally made room for an expression of religiousexperiences outside the dedicated spaces of worship. This aspect is particularly intriguing in instrumental music, where allusions to extra-musical messages are at best hinted at in titles or explanatory notes, and in those casesof vocal music where it can be shown that the musical language adds significant nuances to the verbal text. On the basis of various case studies that transcend a music-analytical approach in the direction of the hermeneutic perspective, this volume explores in which ways the musical language in itself communicates the ineffable, independently of an explicitly sacred context. The discussion focuses on the musical means and devices employed to this effect and on the question what the presence of religious messages in certain works of secular music tells us about the spirituality of an era.