Listen With the Ear of the Heart: Music and Monastery Life at Weston Priory (Eastman/Rochester Studies Ethnomusicology)

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Far from being a long-silent echo of medieval religion, brand new monastery music is as an alternative a resounding, living illustration of the role of music in religious life. Benedictine monks gather for communal prayer upwards of five times per day, each day. Their prayers, referred to as the Divine Place of business, are almost entirely sung.

Benedictines are famous for Gregorian Chant, however the original folk-inspired music of the monks of Weston Priory in Vermont is without doubt one of the most familiar in post-Vatican II American Catholicism. The use of the ethnomusicological methods of fieldwork and taking inspiration from the monks’ own way of encountering the world, this book offers a contemplative engagement with music, prayer, and on a regular basis life. The wealthy narrative evokes the rhythms of learning among Benedictines to show how monastic ways of being, knowing, and musicking resonate with humanistic inquiry and the pursuit of knowledge and understanding.

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