Liturgical Music As Ritual Symbol: A Case Study of Jacques Berthier's Taize Music - Couverture souple

Kubicki, J.M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9042907401 ISBN 13 : 9789042907409

Editeur : Peeters Publishers, 1999

Synopsis

In this book, Sister Kubicki uses Jacques Berthier's Taize music to explore the nature of liturgical music as ritual symbol. She carries out a hermeneutical analysis of Berthier's chants and examines biographical and historical data related to the creator's of Taize music and the founding of the Taize community. The author draws on five areas of study to interpret the Taize chants as ritual symbol - symbol theory, semiotics, theologies of symbol, ritual theory, and perfomative language theory. The final chapter explores potential ecclesial meanings which may be mediated in the Taize liturgy and the role of Berthier's chants in mediating that meaning. The study concludes that it is music's symbolic property that enables it to be both ministerial and integral to the liturgy. As symbolic activity, music-making evokes participation, negotiates relationships, and enables the assembly to orient themselves and to find their identity and place within their world. Furthermore, music-making provides the illocutionary force to "do something" in the act of singing. Thus it is that as part of a complexus of ritual symbols, music interacts with other symbols, in mediating the liturgy's meaning.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peeters Publishers
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9042907401
• ISBN 13: 9789042907409
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 207
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• Personne responsable: non disponible