The Organist as a Creator of Interaction in the Liturgy
Hymnologian ja liturgiikan seura
2024
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Pulli-Huomo, A. (2024). The Organist as a Creator of Interaction in the Liturgy. In S. Korkalainen & L. Lampinen (Eds.), Encounters at Borders and across Borders: Hymnos 2024 (pp. 104–121). Hymnos, 2024. The Finnish Society for Hymnology and Liturgy. https://edition.fi/hymnos/catalog/book/974
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‘In Thy Music, we will SEE the Music, In Thy Light, we will HEAR the Light…’1 In 1977, French composer and organist Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992), a Roman Catholic, lectured on the existence of music in the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. He believed there were three types of sacred music: liturgical, religious, and one that breaks through to the beyond and is expressed through sound-colour [sic], resulting in a sensation of bedazzlement. According to Messiaen, liturgical music ‘celebrates God in His Church’ while ‘religious music discovers at every hour and everywhere’. Above these two is coloured [sic] music which ‘does that which the stained-glass windows and rose-windows of the Middle Ages did: they give us bedazzlement’ (Messiaen 1978: 2, 14, 15). As a Finnish Lutheran organist, I find these words of Messiaen speak to me about the mystery, role, and function of sacred music; in particular, how the coloured music he mentions interacts with earthly and afterlife realms and the profound experience it can evoke, for example, by bedazzlement.
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Encounters at Borders and across Borders: Hymnos 2024
Lehti
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Hymnos|2024
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2984-214X