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Under the direction of A. Allain and P. A. Castanet, La Musique et le religieux : une esthétique contemporaine is structured around four main chapters: "L'Alchimie de la nuit", "L'Appel de la paix et de la lumière", "Offertoire et Stabat mater", "L'Éblouissement du sacré". In view of this original thematic distribution, the authors have referred to, visited or analyzed scores by J.-S. Bach, C. Debussy, B. Bartók, H. Tomasi, G. Scelsi, O. Messiaen, H. Dutilleux, L. Nono, K. Stockhausen, K. Penderecki, S. Goubaïdoulina, Cl. Ballif, Ph. Manoury, Ph. Tailleux, Ph. Leroux...
Logically arranged, the musicological ensemble aims to show that one of the missions of musical works in the religious domain is to transport humanity through ascending links whose cardinal virtue is to unite the here below with the hereafter. Moving from deafening darkness to blinding clarity, the art of sound over the last hundred years has thus indulged in the writing of "mystery" and "mass", "chorale" and "fanfare", but also "opera" and "mystical poem", and even secular "litany" and profane "prayer"... In fine, consulting the various articles gathered in this book, prefaced by J.- M. Bardez, the music lover will realize that all music dependent on a spiritual act aspires to the immeasurable space of the sensible.
