| The Song That I Am: On the Mystery of Music Volume 40 Contributor(s): Labat, Elisabeth-Paule (Author), Varden, Erik (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0879070609 ISBN-13: 9780879070601 Publisher: Liturgical Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Religion | Christianity - Literature & The Arts - Music | Genres & Styles - Classical |
| Dewey: 781.12 |
| LCCN: 2013047687 |
| Series: Monastic Wisdom |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.4" (0.40 lbs) 160 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "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 Elisabeth-Paule Labat shares her interiorexperience 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." |
Contributor Bio(s): Labat, Elisabeth-Paule: - Élisabeth-Paule Labat (1897-1975) was born in Tarbes, France. After the Great War, she moved to Paris and studied at the Schola Cantorum. A brilliant pianist and composer, Labat also studied Gregorian chant. In 1922 she entered the Benedictine abbey of Saint-Michel de Kergonan in Brittany, and took Élisabeth as her religious name. Labat is also author of Presence of God (Paulist Press, 1980). |
