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Signs of transcendence and couleur locale. Of Spain and sin : a glan ce at Wolf's Spanisches Liederbuch / Susan Youens ; From paganism to or thodoxy to theosophy : reflections of other worlds in the piano music o f Rachmaninov and Scriabin / Anatole Leikin -- Lifting the secular veil . A sermon for fishes in a secular age : on the scherzo movement of Mah ler's second symphony / Magnar Breivik ; Music, religious experience, a nd transcedence in Ben Jonson's Masque of beautie : a case study in col laborative form / Anthony Johnson ; The truth ineffably divine : the lo ss and recovery of the sacred in Richard Wagner's Parsifal / Robert A. Davis -- Temptation, death, and resurrection. Eschatological aspects in music : The dream of Gerontius by Edward Elgar / Eva Maria Jensen ; Wo rdless songs of love, glory, and resurrection : Musical emblems of the holy in Hindemith's saints / Siglind Bruhn ; The passion according to P enderecki / Danuta Mirka -- The divine breath of worldly music. Spiritu al descents and ascents : religious implications in pronounced motion t o the subdominant and beyond / Chandler Carter ; Time and divine provid ence in Mozart's music / Nils Holger Petersen -- Music and the ineffabl e / Eyolf Østrem.

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