Apr 27, 2020
St. John Henry Newman was concerned in a number of artwork varieties
all through his life. In literature, he was maybe the best
English prose author of his time, and a extremely expert poet. In
music, he was an completed novice violinist, taught music to
the boys at his college in Littlemore, and oversaw liturgical music
as the pinnacle of an Oratorian neighborhood. In structure, he
commissioned a lot of church buildings and was concerned in
controversies over the function of the Gothic in up to date English
Catholic church structure.
Although Newman by no means wrote a e book on the subject of magnificence,
feedback on magnificence and the humanities are sprinkled all through his
writings, typically in shocking contexts. In Unearthly
Magnificence: The Aesthetic of St. John Henry Newman, Fr. Man
Nicholls of the Birmingham Oratory attracts these feedback collectively
for an outline of the function of magnificence in Newman’s life and thought.
For Newman, the true function of earthly magnificence is to attract us past
itself to the upper and extra actual great thing about God.
Contents
[4:02] Synthesizing Newman’s numerous feedback on magnificence right into a
coherent entire
[4:57] Unearthly vs. earthly magnificence, and the risks of the
latter in keeping with Newman
[10:49] Actual vs unreal
[14:46] A hazard of artwork: severing noble sentiments from
motion
[20:43] The issue with making morality a matter of excellent
style
[23:18] How folks had been struck by Newman’s private magnificence
[31:00] Two formative experiences of magnificence which Newman
linked with Paradise: his sister Mary’s holiness, and the
Sicilian panorama
[39:09] Newman’s involvement with and views on church
structure
[46:36] Newman the novice musician; his views on the facility of
music
[57:45] The significance of primitive music and artwork vs.
“scientific” music and lifelike artwork, particularly in liturgy
[1:03:43] The significance of music within the Rule of the Oratory;
St. Philip Neri’s observe of utilizing entertainments to “attract”
folks to God
[1:06:55] Distinction between devotional and liturgical music;
Newman’s use of common music and chant
[1:12:58] Music within the Little Oratory below Newman; adapting to
the wants of the local people (esp. the poor)
[1:19:25] The origins of the musical style “oratorio” with St.
Philip’s Oratory and different oratories of the time
[1:23:13] Comparability and distinction between the expertise of
conscience and that of magnificence
Hyperlinks
Unearthly Magnificence: The Aesthetic of St. John Henry
Newman http://www.gracewing.co.uk/page190.html
Fr. Man Nicholls
https://www.bfriars.ox.ac.uk/folks/rev-fr-guy-nicholls-cong-orat/
Newman’s sermon on “The Hazard of Accomplishments”:
http://www.newmanreader.org/works/parochial/volume2/sermon30.html
Picture of Newman College Church in Dublin, based by Newman
for the Catholic College of Eire and designed by John
Hungerford Pollen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newman_University_Church#/media/File:Newman_University_Church_Interior,_Dublin,_Ireland_-_Diliff.jpg
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