Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 – “The Heavens Make a Harmony”: Musica Mundana, Musica Humana, and Musica Instrumentalis in the Ancient and Early Christian World
Chapter 2 – “Thy Hearing is Mortal Even as Thy Sight”: Human Perception in the Heavenly Journey of Dante’s Paradiso
Chapter Vignette 2.5 – “I Noticed That the Grass Did Not Bend Under Their Feet”: Solid People, Ghosts, and the Sense of Touch in a Heavenly Journey of C.S. Lewis
Chapter 3 – “Behold Your Music!”: Music as a Force of Creation, Destruction, and Re-Creation in the Worlds of J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis
Chapter Vignette 3.5 – Powerful Music: Horns, Trumpets, Voices, and Other Magical Instruments in Tolkien and Lewis
Chapter 4 – When the Celestial Laws Change
Chapter 5 – To Conserve, Exploit, or Embrace?: The Human and the Non-Human in Christian Hymnody
Chapter Vignette 5.5 – “Still, It May Be Useful”: The Ring of Sauron and the Value Axis
Chapter 6 – Bent Roads and Bent People
Chapter 6.5 – Musica Humana and the Limits of Musical Genius
Chapter 7 – The Music of the Spheres and the Modern Worship Wars
Conclusion – Da Capo
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