ISSN 0749-4467
4 papers in the library · 25 citations · publishing 1996
Contemporary Music Review 1996 Tim Hodgkinson 21 citations
Mysticism appears in music either as musical content or as an intervention into the process of music-making. This article discusses the latter in terms of the experience of the improvising musicians Tim Hodgkinson and Ken Hyder. During their search for a method of improvising without predetermined structural constraints they began to look at the state of mind of performers, and this led them to...
Contemporary Music Review 1996 Richard Gonski 2 citations
Most musicians and music-lovers would agree that music is a phenomenon that affects the spirit and nourishes the soul. Yet this aspect of music-making is rarely, if ever, discussed in the world of classical music. In his article Richard Gonski identifies some of the conditions that can give rise to a higher states of consciousness during orchestral concerts and rehearsals, and suggests some...
Contemporary Music Review 1996 Michael Tucker 2 citations
Recently there has been a strong revival of interest in the phenomenon of shamanism — the pre-Judæo-Christian, nature-based religion of ecstatic states of mind described by Mircea Eliade in Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy. With its emphasis upon altered consciousness, shamanism offers archetypal visionary insight concerning the nature of the psyche. It has come to be seen to have much...
Contemporary Music Review 1996 Robin Freeman
Olivier Messiæn was perhaps the last great figure in that post revolutionary resurgence of Catholic art heralded by Chateaubriand and brought to its height in its aftermath of the France Prussian War. Aside from the revival of the liturgy carried out by Dom Guéranger and his followers at Solesmes the key roles in this movement were played by Catholic laymen for its most part with encyclopaedic...