Troeger, Thomas H. - Music as Prayer

This book explores how making and listening to music can be an act of prayer. From an impressive range of perspectives, theologians, poets, musicians, even scientists all give witness to the deeper dimensions of music.

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CONTENTS

Foreword by Don E. Saliers
Introduction
Music and the Making of Meaning
Music and Metaphor
When the World Falls Apart
Salutary Harmonies
The Great Mighty Ocean Tone
Plucked from the Universe
The Deeper Meaning of Inspiring Music
The Whole Company of Musicians
Church Organist Declared Greatest Composer
How Do You Sing Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus?
To What End Beauty?
The Materiality of Making Music
The Stone Age Ancestors of Organists
Music that Can Never Be Recorded
The Piece You Thought You Would Never Play
How Beautiful and Astounding Are the Feet
The Freedom of Constraint
Silence as the Prelude to Sound
The Rhetoric of Breath
Before the First Note: Getting Centered
Wrong Notes in a Splendid Performance
Music and the Landscape of the Soul
Study Tour of the Human Soul
Musical Hometown
An Antidote to Cognitive Imperialism
The Necessity of Beauty
Children of Process
Escaping the Hubris of the Present Moment
The Perfect Registration
Music for Facing Temptation and Wild Beasts
Season of Lament
Unacknowledged Healing
Plain and Simple, Rich and Complex
A Gigue for Everyone to Dance
Music for the Seasons of Faith
Waiting as Blessing
Rehearsing for an Epiphany
A New Song for Christmas?
Song that Blesses Earth
New Year's Resolution: Not Exactly as the Composer Wanted
Music Born of Resurrection