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Acknowledgements | p. 7 |
Introduction | p. 11 |
Basic Modalities and Methods | |
Basic Presuppositions and Predilections | |
Musical Predilections | |
Religious Predilections | |
Culture and Language | |
Analysis and Practice | |
Sacramental Traditions | p. 25 |
Sacramental Encounter | |
Divine Eminence and Divine Immanence | |
Two Sacramental Traditions | |
The Pythagorean Tradition | |
The Incarnational Tradition | |
Creation: Transcending Contingency | p. 49 |
The Pythagorean Tradition: Music's Sacramental Silence | |
Pythagorean Intervals | |
The Overtone Series | |
Division of the Diapason | |
Melody and Harmony | |
Musical Particularity and Universality | |
Religious Particularity and Universality | |
Beyond Contingency: Trusting Divine Logos | |
Music, Mathematics, and Transcendence | |
Creation: Manifesting Transcendence | p. 91 |
The Incarnational Tradition: Music's Sacramental Sound | |
On Balancing the Pythagorean and Incarnational Traditions | |
Emotion and Meaning | |
Divine Artistry and Human Artistry | |
Mozart and Deconstruction | |
Mozart and Transcendence | |
Creativity as Covenant | |
Fall: Enduring Time | p. 125 |
From Harmony to Babel | |
Christian Ambivalence toward Music | |
Time's Terrible Beauty | |
Music's Dark Resources | |
Tonal Tension | |
Dissonance | |
Interference | |
Minor Modes | |
Music as Virtual Life | |
Music and Silence | |
Music and Noise | |
Music and Chaos | |
Music and Life's Pilgrimage | |
Sacred Music: Evaluation and Taste | |
Music and Theodicy | |
Salvation: Sustaining Harmony | p. 159 |
Can Beauty Save Us? | |
Music and Goodness | |
Music and Truth | |
Music and Beauty | |
Idol, Distraction, Offering, or Grace? | |
Music's Power to Heal and to Harm | |
Cosmic Harmony | |
Harmony: Individual and Social | |
Social Sharing and Immediate Experience | |
Temperament: Musical and Communal | |
Final Bliss: Surpassing Language | p. 199 |
Hope for Harmony | |
Varieties of Mystical Experience | |
Outwardly and Inwardly Oriented Mysticisms | |
Meanings of Transcendence | |
Communion with Transcendence | |
Mysticisms of Knowledge and of Love | |
Musical Illustrations | |
Beyond Verbal Language | |
Music and Transcendence | |
Intimacy | |
Penetration | |
Fulfilment | |
Silence or Succour? | |
Music and the Numinous | |
A Sacramental Vessel | |
Quieting | |
Preparing | |
Abasing | |
Attracting | |
Constituting | |
Proclaiming | |
Celebrating | |
Music and Final Bliss | |
Codetta | p. 233 |
Notes and References | p. 235 |
Index of Biblical Passages | p. 247 |
General Index | p. 249 |
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