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Xenakis: His Life in Music is a full-length study of the influential contemporary composer Iannis Xenakis. Following the trajectory of Xenakis’s compositional development, James Harley, who studied with Xenakis, presents the works together with clear explanations of the technical and conceptual innovations that shaped them. Harley examines the relationship between the composer and two early influences: Messiaen and Le Corbusier. Particular attention is paid to analyzing works which were vital to the composer’s creative development, from early, unpublished works to the breakthrough pieces Metastasis and Pithoprakta, through the oft-discussed decade of formalization and the evolving styles of the succeeding three decades.

Composers --- Xenakis, Iannis, --- Xenakis, Yannis, --- Xenakēs, Giannēs, --- Xenakis, I. --- Ksenakis, I︠A︡nnis, --- Kusenakisu, Ianisu, --- Xenakēs, Iannēs, --- Xenakis, Jannis, --- sonic --- entities --- sustained --- sonority --- melodic --- contours --- corbusier --- olivier --- messiaen --- cluster

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This volume is an exploration of the varied and sometimes unrecognized ways in which music—especially in ritual contexts—can serve as both a spiritual conduit as well as a theological source. With topics ranging from a Congolese choir in Ireland to the Orthodox chant in Georgia, from postmodern reflections on new Passion compositions to reflections on the sacramentality of Black gospel music, this volume offers a rich plumbing of very diverse yet well researched musical traditions—case studies from around the globe—for their spiritual and theological contributions.

Music --- Charismatic Prayer Meeting --- Praise and Worship --- Speaking/Singing in Tongues --- spirituality --- music --- wellbeing --- Korean migrants --- Theodor Adorno --- Dietrich Bonhoeffer --- Karl Barth --- Anton Webern --- Gustav Mahler --- demythologization --- secularization --- Confessing Church --- German modernism --- singing --- migration --- asylum-seeker --- refugee --- the sacred --- creativity --- sonority --- Ireland --- the Congo --- Passion --- liminality --- ritual --- postmodernism --- choral music --- 21st century music --- sacred music --- composition --- theology --- theoartistry --- annunciation --- Hebrew Bible --- James MacMillan --- Michael Symmons Roberts --- Jeremy Begbie --- keen --- wake --- funeral --- tradition --- custom --- culture --- history --- chant --- Georgian chant --- Orthodox theology --- exegesis of tradition --- aesthetics --- polyphony --- oral tradition --- Dionysios the Areopagite --- sacramentality --- gospel --- African American --- dance --- Charismatic Prayer Meeting --- Praise and Worship --- Speaking/Singing in Tongues --- spirituality --- music --- wellbeing --- Korean migrants --- Theodor Adorno --- Dietrich Bonhoeffer --- Karl Barth --- Anton Webern --- Gustav Mahler --- demythologization --- secularization --- Confessing Church --- German modernism --- singing --- migration --- asylum-seeker --- refugee --- the sacred --- creativity --- sonority --- Ireland --- the Congo --- Passion --- liminality --- ritual --- postmodernism --- choral music --- 21st century music --- sacred music --- composition --- theology --- theoartistry --- annunciation --- Hebrew Bible --- James MacMillan --- Michael Symmons Roberts --- Jeremy Begbie --- keen --- wake --- funeral --- tradition --- custom --- culture --- history --- chant --- Georgian chant --- Orthodox theology --- exegesis of tradition --- aesthetics --- polyphony --- oral tradition --- Dionysios the Areopagite --- sacramentality --- gospel --- African American --- dance