Annunciations : Sacred Music for the Twenty-First Century.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I: Compositional and Theological Perspectives -- 1. The Most Spiritual of the Arts: Music, Modernity, and the Search for the Sacred -- 2. The Surrogate Priest: Reflecting on Vocation with Welsh Composer Paul Mealor -- I. Developing a Sense of Vocation -- II. Love's Endeavour, Love's Expense -- III. Praying for Peace in Troubled Times -- IV. Personal Devotion -- List of Illustrations -- 3. Mary as a Model for Creative People: Establishing Theologian-Composer Partnerships with James MacMillan -- I. Composition as 'Annunciation': A Perspective on MacMillan's Theology of Music -- II. The TheoArtistry Composers' Scheme: Forming Theologian-Composer Partnerships -- 4. When Gods Talk to Men: Reading Mary with the Annunciations of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East -- 1. Mary and the Annunciation Type-Scene -- 2. Mary's Annunciation and the 'Theophany' Type-Scene. -- 3. Joseph's Annunciation and the Prophetic Dream Vision -- 4. Theophanies and Cognitive Dissonance: The Problem of Mary -- 5. Old Testament Typology: The Gospel Canticles in the Liturgy and Life of the Church -- 1. St Bonaventure, and Typology in the Bible and Christian tradition -- 2. The Three Canticles -- 3. Art, Liturgy and the Typological Imagination -- 6. Composing for a Non-Professional Chapel Choir: Challenges and Opportunities -- List of Illustrations -- List of Recordings -- Part II: 'Annunciations' in the Hebrew Bible -- 7.1. 'Where are you?': The Temptation of Adam and Eve (Genesis 3) -- I. Genesis 3 in the Theological and Cultural Imagination -- II. Fruits of an Imaginative Hermeneutic Response -- III. Fruits of an Artistic Collaboration -- List of Illustrations -- 7.2. Composer's Reflections -- 'Hinneni' -- 8.1. Jacob Wrestling (Genesis 32.22-32). I. Jacob's Re-Naming by a Mysterious Opponent. -- II. Appropriations of Jacob's Wrestling in Art and Worship -- III. The TheoArtistry Collaboration -- List of Illustrations -- 8.2. Composer's Reflections -- 'Whilst falling asleep, Savta told me of Jacob' -- 9.1. Setting Fire to Music: Theological and Aesthetic Approaches (Exodus 3) -- I. Finding God in the Flames -- II. Re-Imagining the Burning Bush for Music -- III. The Characterization of God and Moses, and Constructing New Theological Meanings -- List of Illustrations -- 9.2. Composer's Reflections -- 'Exodus III' -- 10.1. A Dark Dream: God's Calling of Samuel and the Ministry of Eli (1 Samuel 3) -- The Setting for God's Call -- The Voice of God -- The Experience of Samuel -- Samuel's Bewilderment -- Samuel's Terror -- The Collaboration -- List of Illustrations -- 10.2. Composer's Reflections -- I. The Collaborative Process -- II. The Compositional Process -- 'God Calls Samuel' -- 11.1. Elijah's Silent Annunciation (1 Kings 19.8-15) -- I. The Visual and Literary Dimensions of the Elijah Episode -- II. The Elijah Episode and Carmelite Spirituality -- List of Illustrations -- 11.2. Composer's Reflections -- 'The Silent Word Sounds' -- 12.1. Musical Arguments and Gender Performance (Song of Songs 3.6-11) -- Exposition I: Religion in Culture and the Performance of Masculinity -- Exposition II: Staging the Encounter in Song of Songs 3.6-11 -- Development: Collaboration -- Recapitulation -- List of Illustrations -- 12.2. Composer's Reflections -- 'The Annunciation of Solomon' -- Part III: Programming and Performing Sacred Music -- 13. Sacred Art Music in the Catholic Liturgy: Perspectives from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland -- I. The Uneasy Relationship between Sacred Music and Roman Catholic Worship -- II. Two Opposing Worldviews in Post-Conciliar Music. III. Mainstream liturgical music in the Catholic Anglosphere -- IV. Music in Present-Day Catholic Worship: Perspectives from the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland -- V. Music-Makers in the Roman Catholic Church in Scotland -- 14. Commissioning and Performing Sacred Music in the Anglican Church: A Perspective from Wells Cathedral -- 15. Music at the Borders of the Sacred: Handel, Elgar and Poulenc -- I. Handel: Jephtha -- II. Elgar: The Apostles -- III. Poulenc: Dialogues des Carm�elites -- 16. Sacred Music in Secular Spaces -- I. Secular Listeners in Sacred Spaces -- II. The Sacred in Secular Spaces -- III. Composer, Performers and Listeners -- IV. Religion, Secularism and Faith - The Search for Truth through Beauty -- Conclusion: Encounter, Experience and Relationship -- 17. Music and Theology: Some Reflections on 'the Listener's Share' -- I. Closed-World Musicology -- II. Theological Imperialism -- III. A Hospitality to Possibilities -- Index -- Index of Scriptures -- Bibliography -- Video and CD Recording.