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A Singing Faith: Composer John Tavener |
| Section: THE ARTS / MUSIC |
| Author: Herb Greer |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 4/1/2003 |
| Size: 1,929 Words, 11,859 Characters |
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The British composer Sir John Tavener occupies a special place in contemporary devotional music. He is one of the few Western composers to grasp and exploit successfully the musical sensibilities of non-European traditions, particularly the tonal world of Eastern Christianity.
Traditionally, the music of Western Catholicism, like its secular counterparts, mirrored the intellectual and argumentative functions of verbal thought; it decorated and enhanced textual elements of the liturgy in much the same way as stained-glass images reified the personages and narratives of the Old and New Testaments for a largely illiterate body of worshipers. This musical thought spoke to the worshiper in basically a rational manner, as a kind of narrative or illustration in which even structural elements f...
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... his own faith, steadily moving forward and away from the grim ordeals of our recent past, imparts a special power to his devotional works, which--like all the best artistic creations--have always pointed to better times and a future hope of salvation.
For a complete list of works by Tavener (with notes by the composer) and full discography, visit www.chesternovello.com/composer/1606/main.html.
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