Experiencing Music – Restoring the Spiritual

June Boyce-Tillman MBE read music at the University of Oxford and is Professor of Applied Music at the University of Winchester. She has published widely in the area of education, most recently on spirituality. Her doctoral research into children’s musical development has been translated into five languages. She has written about and organised events in the area of interfaith dialogue using music. She has held visiting fellowships at Indiana University and the Episcopal Divinity School in Massachusetts. She is an international performer, especially of the work of Hildegard of Bingen. Her large-scale works for cathedrals such as Winchester, Southwark and Norwich involve professional musicians and school children. She is a hymn writer and has written on and led workshops on music, healing, theology and spirituality and is the artistic convenor of the Winchester Centre for the Arts as Well-being. She is an Extraordinary Professor at North West University, South Africa. She is an ordained Anglican priest and an honorary chaplain to Winchester cathedral and received an MBE for her services to music and education.

Contents: And Still I Wander ... through Greek Mythology and the Idea of the Soul - The Development of Religionless Spirituality - The Cult of Creativity - The Development of a Phenomenography of the Musical Experience - A Place of Transformation: A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Environment - Music and Expression - Musical Construction - Values in Musicking - Music and Christian Theology - Crossing a Threshold: Encountering the Spiritual - The Extrapersonal Dimension: The Use of the Musical Liminality as a Space for Peace and Justice Making - Radical Musical Inclusion: An Ecclesiology of Music - Orpheus Rediscovered: The Way Forward.

«Experiencing Music-Restoring the Spiritual is dense with ideas, and is strongly recommended for those interested in formations of spirituality in music, and in the use of music to promote individual and societal well-being.»
(Anne-Marie Forbes, Musicology Australia vol. 39, no. 1, 2017)

«This is not a book for a casual read, but is a treasure trove of musical, social and spiritual insight, and the way music can open doors to spirituality.»
(Marian Liebman, the Friend, 15 June 2018)