Consequently, oral transmission from master to student remains the principal means of preserving the music and its spiritual values.

UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage

The holiday season is upon us, a ritual time of spiritual renewal, introspection, music, goodwill, generosity, numerous gatherings, shopping, stress and fatigue.

FORBES: Thoughts On the Holidays, Christians In Movie Theaters and Buttered Rum

Here, Yusuf Islam performs songs from throughout his career and chats with callers about his music, his spiritual life and the way the two combine and connect with each other.

NPR: Yusuf Islam: the Former Cat Stevens on His New CD

They probe and analyze from every angle until they discover how to best unveil the psychological, physical, and spiritual states that a great piece of music evokes.

NPR: The Joy and Pain in Beethoven's Big Fugue

Adorno meant that the magnitude of modern-day evil made the old-fashioned pursuit of aesthetic consolation, via poetry, music or whatever, the spiritual equivalent of plugging one's ears and humming a happy tune: immature, cowardly, even immoral.

WSJ: Henryk G��recki | Symphony of Sorrowful Songs | A Lament for Lost Children | Masterpiece by Ian Marcus Corbin

Moreover, I believe this spiritual dimension underlies and helps power the seductiveness of the music.

NPR: The xx: Switching Roles In Song

Asked in January about whether his group was a Christian metal band, he told NoiseCreep that the band had decided not to discuss "the spiritual topic" so that listeners would focus on their music.

CNN: SHARE THIS

His spiritual explorations have driven some of My Morning Jacket's best music, but he takes it to a different level on his first solo album.

NPR: Jim James Takes Search For Connection To SXSW

If listeners have trouble with French music, it may be because of a willingness to mix the spiritual and the frivolous in the same work.

ECONOMIST: The London Proms