Spiritual Dimensions in the Music of Edmund Rubbra

Edmund Rubbra's music has given him a reputation as a 'spiritual' composer, who had an interest in Eastern thought, and a mid-life conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Autorentext

Lucinda Cradduck, now retired, was for nearly thirty years an Associate Lecturer in music with the Open University.

Klappentext

Edmund Rubbra's music has given him a reputation as a 'spiritual' composer, who had an interest in Eastern thought, and a mid-life conversion to Roman Catholicism.

Inhalt

1. 'The natural product of a religious nature': introducing spirituality and Rubbra's music

2. 'Point of departure': the enduring influence of Theosophy on Rubbra's work

3. Body, mind and spirit: Rubbra's involvement with dance

4. Looking East

5. 'Pan is Playing': Nature mysticism in Rubbra's Music

6. Rubbra's homage to Teilhard de Chardin

7. From 'Dark Night' to 'Resurrection': The figure of Christ in Rubbra's music

8. 'Rather a peculiar spiritual make-up'?

References and bibliography