Music of Silence: A Sacred Journey Through the Hours of the Day PDF
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USIC of A SACRED Silence JOURNEY THROUGH THE HOURS OF THE DAY DAVID STEINDL-RAST SHARON LEBELL AND INTRODUCTION BY KATHLEEN NORRIS AUTHOR OF THE CLOISTER WALK Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/isbn_9781569752975 eastone music of siLewce CDusic of SiLewce A Sacred Journey through the Hours of the Days David Steindl-Rast Sharon Lebell with INTRODUCTION BY Kathleen Norris §eastone BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA Copyright © 1998, 2002 by David Steindl-Rast, O.S.B, and Sharon Lebell. Introduction Copyright © 1998, 2002 by Ulysses Press. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conven- tions, including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form whatsoever, except for use by a reviewer in connection with a review. Angel musicians by Fra Angelico, from the Tabernacle of the Lmaioli, Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy. Courtesy of Scala /Art Resource, New York. Epigraphs from Abraham Joshua Heschel, I Asked for Wonder: A Spiritual Anthology, edited by Samuel H. Dresner (New York: Crossroad, 1990), 4 and 10. Grateful acknowledgment for permission to reprint poetry by Denise Levertov. From Candles in Babylon © 1982 by Denise Levertov. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation. Published by: Seastone, an imprint of Ulysses Press P.O. Box 3440 Berkeley, CA 94703 www.ulyssespress.com ISBN: 1-56975-297-4 Published by arrangement with hdarperSanFrancisco, a division of HarperColhns Publishers Printed in Canada by Transcontinental Printing 10 9 8 7 6 Editorial and production: Claire Chun, Lily Chou Cover Design: Sarah Levin and Leslie Hennques Cover Art: Singapore Bell: Craig Sherburne/lmageState Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Steindl-Rast, David. The music of silence : a sacred journey through the hours of the day / David Steindl-Rast ; with Sharon Lebell ; introduction by Kathleen Norris, p. cm. Originally published : [San Francisco] : hdarperSanFrancisco, cI995. With new introd. ISBN I-56975-137-4 (alk. paper) L Monastic and religious life. 2. Divine office. 3. Chants (Plain, Gregorian, etc.)—History and criticism. I. Lebell, Sharon, 1957- . II. Title. [BX2435.S68 1998] 264’.15—dc2I 97-51683 CIP Distributed in the LJnited States by Publishers Group West and in Canada by Raincoast Books ACkNOWLeC)QCDeMTS Special thanks are due John Loudon, who conducted the conversations on which this book is based and then edited the resulting manuscript through its var- ious stages; and to Nancy Graeff, who generously gave of her time and skills to meet a tight editorial schedule.
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