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This volume shows how music serves the sacred. It discusses secular and Christian attitudes to music, especially the use of music in seeking salvation, and music's liturgical forms. The final chapter deals with bliss and ecstasy.

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Author:   Albert L. Blackwell
Publisher:   James Clarke & Co Ltd
Imprint:   Lutterworth Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.560kg
ISBN:  

9780718829971

ISBN 10:   0718829972
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   21 October 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Albert Blackwell is Reuben B. Pitts Professor of Religion at Furman University, South Carolina, and is director of a small church choir. A graduate in physics and divinity, he has written a book on Schleiermacher, edited one on Niebuhr, and is the translator of Hannsdieter Wohlfarth's Johann Sebastian Bach, also published by The Lutterworth Press.

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