TY - GEN

T1 - Creatio in musica - Creation in Music

T2 - Creatio in musica - Creation in Music

AU - Schwab, Heinrich Wilhelm

PY - 2007

Y1 - 2007

N2 - Book abstract The meaning of the noun 'creation', and the verb 'to create', range from the traditional theological idea of God creating ex nihilo to a more recent sense of the process of artistic conception. This collection of thirteen essays, written by scholars of music, literature, the visual arts, and theology, explores the complicated relationship between medieval rituals and theology, and the development of an idea of human artistic creation, which came to the fore in the sixteenth century.The volume concentrates on the period from the Carolingians to the Counter-Reformation but also includes some twentieth-century musicians. Each essay is dedicated to a particular topic concerned with ritual or artistic beginnings, inventions, harmony and disharmony, as well as representations or celebrations of creation. Central themes include the interplay of the ideas of God as creator, of God acting and recreating in medieval liturgy, of God as artist - the deus artifex of the Pythagorean cosmology, which was occasionally referred to as recently as the early nineteenth century -  and, finally, of the homo creator, a concept in which man reflected (and eventually replaced) God in his artistic creativity.This book therefore features new, significant, individual contributions from a range of scholarly disciplines, but, taken as a whole, it also constitutes a complex interdisciplinary study, with large-scale historical constructions.

AB - Book abstract The meaning of the noun 'creation', and the verb 'to create', range from the traditional theological idea of God creating ex nihilo to a more recent sense of the process of artistic conception. This collection of thirteen essays, written by scholars of music, literature, the visual arts, and theology, explores the complicated relationship between medieval rituals and theology, and the development of an idea of human artistic creation, which came to the fore in the sixteenth century.The volume concentrates on the period from the Carolingians to the Counter-Reformation but also includes some twentieth-century musicians. Each essay is dedicated to a particular topic concerned with ritual or artistic beginnings, inventions, harmony and disharmony, as well as representations or celebrations of creation. Central themes include the interplay of the ideas of God as creator, of God acting and recreating in medieval liturgy, of God as artist - the deus artifex of the Pythagorean cosmology, which was occasionally referred to as recently as the early nineteenth century -  and, finally, of the homo creator, a concept in which man reflected (and eventually replaced) God in his artistic creativity.This book therefore features new, significant, individual contributions from a range of scholarly disciplines, but, taken as a whole, it also constitutes a complex interdisciplinary study, with large-scale historical constructions.

KW - Faculty of Humanities

KW - Composing

KW - 19th century

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 9782503522951

T3 - Creations. Medieval Rituals, the Art, and the Concept of Creation (= Ritus et Artes: Traditions and Transformations, vol.2)

SP - 139

EP - 163

BT - Ikke angivet

A2 - Havsteen, Sven Rune

A2 - Petersen, Nils Holger

A2 - Schwab, Heinrich W.

A2 - Østrem, Eyolf

PB - Brepols Academic Publishers

Y2 - 29 November 2010

ER -