Hymns to the Silence: Inside the Words and Music of Van Morrison: Inside the Music and Lyrics of Van Morrison

by PeterMills (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2009

  $158.10

  Investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison. This book looks at Morrison as a writer, specifically as an Irish writer who has recorded musical settings of Yeats poems, and collaborated with Seamus Heaney, Paul Durcan and Gerald Dawe.

• New

  Paperback
  2010

  $36.99

  In 1991 Van Morrison said, 'Music is spiritual, the music business isn't'. This book investigates the oppositions and harmonies within the work of Van Morrison, proceeding from this identified starting point. It looks at Morrison as a singer. It also looks at how he uses his voice as an interpretive instrument.