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Can Music "Mirror" God? : A Theological-Hermeneutical Exploration of Music in the Light of Arvo Part's Spiegel im Spiegel
Heaney, Maeve Louise
Heaney, Maeve Louise
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Abstract
A theological exploration of the potential of non-liturgical instrumental music for the transmission of religious Christian faith experience, based on a hermeneutical tool drawn from Jean-Jacques Nattiez as applied to Arvo Pärt’s Spiegel im Spiegel. The article explores musical composition, reception, as well as the piece of music in itself, to discover common traits and keys to understanding its “meaning”, and relate it to current thought and development in theology; in particular to themes of creativity, theological aesthetics, the Ascension, the artistic vocation and meaning-making in contemporary culture, through music and films.
Keywords
music, Nattiez, Pärt, faith and culture, Spiegel im Spiegel, Sequeri, aesthetics, Ascension, presence, semiotics
Date
2014
Type
Journal article
Journal
Religions
Book
Volume
5
Issue
2
Page Range
361-384
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ACU Department
School of Theology
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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Open Access Status
Published as ‘gold’ (paid) open access
License
CC BY 3.0
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Open