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Drawing on a range of sources and fields, the rich life story of this polymathic composer. This groundbreaking biography offers fresh perspectives on the life, ideas, and music of French twentieth-century composer, organist, and ornithologist Olivier Messiaen. Drawing from previously unexplored sketches and archival material, the book seamlessly combines elements of biography, musicology, theology, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and aesthetics to...

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Bringing together scholars and researchers in one volume, this study investigates how the thinking of the Ukrainian-Israeli somatic educationalist Moshe Feldenkrais (1904-84) can benefit and reflect upon the creative practices of dance, music and theatre. Since its inception, the Feldenkrais Method has been associated with artistic practice, growing contiguously with performance, cognitive and embodied practices in dance, music, and theatre ...

Contemporary Music and Spirituality provides a detailed exploration of the recent and current state of contemporary spiritual music in its religious, musical, cultural and conceptual-philosophical aspects.

The flourishing of religious or spiritually-inspired music in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries remains largely unexplored. This volume provides a detailed exploration of the contemporary spiritual music in its religious, musical, cultural and conceptual-philosophical aspects.

This collection of scholarly studies on the French composer Olivier Messiaen, one of the major figures of twentieth-century music, offers new cultural, historical, biographical and analytical perspectives on his musical oeuvre from 1941 to 1992. The book will be of interest to scholars of music, art, literature and theology.

The French composer Olivier Messiaen is one of the major figures of twentieth-century music. This collection of scholarly essays offers new cultural, historical, biographical and analytical perspectives on Messiaen’, s musical œ, uvre from 1941 to 1992. The volume includes: a fascinating snapshot of Messiaen’, s life in occupied France, a study of the Surrealist poetics of Messiaen’, s song cycle Harawi, a chapter on Messiae...