Bedazzled by Breakthrough: Music Theology and the Problem of Composing Music in Words

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Notes

¹Carol Harrison and Bennett Zon, ‘The Interdiscipline of Music Theology’, Thinking About Almost Everything: New Ideas to Light Up Minds, ed. Ash Amin and Michael O'Neill (London, 2009), 52–3.

²Daniel Chua, Absolute Music and the Construction of Meaning (Cambridge, 1999), 18.

³John Tavener, quoted in Geoffrey Haydon, John Tavener: Glimpses of Paradise (London, 1995), 209.

⁴ In Tune with Heaven: The Report of the Archbishops’ Commission on Church Music (London, 1992), 34.

⁸John Michael Spencer, Theological Music: Introduction to Theomusicology, Contributions to the Study of Music and Dance, 23 (New York and Westport, CN, 1991), xi.

⁵Willard McCarty, ‘Looking Through an Unknown, Remembered Gate: Millennial Speculations on Humanities Computing’, Lansdowne Public Lecture, University of Victoria, 12 February 2001, <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/essays/victoria/>, a preliminary version of an article published in Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, 26/3 (autumn 2001), 173–82.

⁶John Van Maanen, Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago, IL, and London, 1988), 5.

⁷See Stephen W. Littlejohn, ‘An Overview of Contributions to Human Communication Theory from Other Disciplines’, Human Communication Theory: Comparative Essays, ed. Frank E. X. Dance (New York, 1982), 243–85 (p. 246).

⁹Jeremy Begbie, Theology, Music and Time (Cambridge, 2000), 13–15.

¹⁰Jeremy Begbie, Theology, Music and Time (Cambridge, 2000), 271.

¹¹Andrew Cyprian Love, Musical Improvisation, Heidegger and the Liturgy: A Journey to the Heart of Hope, Studies in Art and Religious Interpretation, 32 (Lewiston, NY, and Lampeter, 2003), 221.

¹²Harrison and Zon, ‘The Interdiscipline of Music Theology’, 52–3.

¹³Olivier Messiaen, Technique of my Musical Language, trans. John Satterfield (Paris, 1956), quoted in Van Maas, The Reinvention of Religious Music, 14.

¹⁴Olivier Messiaen, Traité de rythme, de couleur, et d'ornithologie, 7 vols. (Paris, 1949–92), iii (1996), 7, quoted in Jean Marie Wu, ‘Mystical Symbols of Faith: Olivier Messiaen's Charm of Impossibilities’, Messiaen's Language of Mystical Love, ed. Siglind Bruhn (New York and London, 1998), 85–120 (p. 85).

¹⁵Olivier Messiaen, Lecture at Notre Dame / Konferenz von Notre Dame (Paris, 2001), 4, quoted in Van Maas, The Reinvention of Religious Music, 35.

¹⁶Jan Christiaens, ‘Sounding Silence, Moving Stillness: Olivier Messiaen's Le banquet céleste’, Silence, Music, Silent Music, ed. Nicky Losseff and Jenny Doctor (Aldershot, 2007), 54–68.

¹⁷James Jirtle, ‘Understanding Music's Theological Significance: A Kantian Approach’ (Ph.D. dissertation, Durham University, 2010).

¹⁸Jean-Luc Nancy, ‘The Deconstruction of Christianity’, Religion and Media, ed. Hent de Vries and Samuel Weber (Stanford, CA, 2001), 112–30 (pp. 122–3).

¹⁹Theodor W. Adorno, Introduction to the Sociology of Music, trans. E. B. Ashton (New York, 1976), 3.

²⁰Robert Sherlaw Johnson, Messiaen (London, 1975), 40.