Theology in Music

A blog considering theology as illustrated by Western Art Music

Translation

  • Sins prowling around

    Next week will be Holy Week and I intend, as I did last year, to work through a musical setting of the stations of the Cross (last year I did Dupré’s chemin de la croix). This week, though I am still thinking Lent more generally, so instead of somehow marking the installation of the new… Read more

  • One of the questions I sometimes challenge myself with is, if music is itself making a theological contribution, and not only the texts which might be set to music, what theological difference is there to singing the same text to a different tune? This is a parallel version of a set of questions often asked… Read more