The Song that I am, on the mystery of music
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The Song that I am, on the mystery of music
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The Song that I am
Medium
electronic resource
Nature of contents
dictionaries
Series statement
Monastic wisdom series, number 40
Sub title
on the mystery of music
Summary
The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music is a short but full-to-the-brim essay on the decisive role that great music (whether Bach, Tavener, or Gregorian chant) ought to play in the spiritual life. With admirable restraint, Élisabeth-Paule Labat shares her interior experience of music and thus continually opens up fresh vistas through worlds of sound and spirit. With her uncanny gift of language, Labat precisely describes soundings and yearnings of the soul that many of us glimpse fleetingly. Because 'only the lover sings' (St. Augustine), her final illumination is that the experience of profound music ought to transform us into the beauty that we hear
Target audience
adult
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