Listen with the Ear of the Heart

Music and Monastery Life at Weston Priory
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-1-58046-992-0
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 214 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 290 g

Reihe: Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology

A "contemplative" ethnographic study of a Benedictine monastery in Vermont known for its folk-inspired music.

Far from being a long-silent echo of medieval religion, modern monastery music is instead a resounding, living illustration of the role of music in religious life. Benedictine monks gather for communal prayer upwards of five times per day, every day. Their prayers, called the Divine Office, are almost entirely sung.

Benedictines are famous for Gregorian Chant, but the original folk-inspired music of the monks of Weston Priory in Vermont is among the most familiar in post-Vatican II American Catholicism. Using the ethnomusicological methods of fieldwork and taking inspiration from the monks' own way of encountering the world, this book offers a contemplative engagement with music, prayer, and everyday life. The rich narrative evokes the rhythms of learning among Benedictines to show how monastic ways of being, knowing, and musicking resonate with humanistic inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge and understanding.

Support for this publication was provided by the Howard Hanson Institute for American Music of the Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Guarino, Maria S

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Geistliche Musik, Religiöse Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musikethnologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Gottesdienst, Riten und Zeremonien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Gebet & liturgisches Material

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Introduction
Ethnography in a Monastery
Singing Like Benedictines: A Visit with Gregorian Chant
Singing Like Weston Monks
My Novitiate: Understanding Craft
Music as Craft: Creating a Tradition
Monastic Spirituality: Learning to Listen with the Ear of the Heart
Bibliography
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Guarino, Maria S
Maria S. Guarino received her PhD in critical and comparative studies in music from the University of Virginia. She specializes in ethnography, religious life, Benedictine monasticism, and contemplative practices.