Crossing confessional boundaries : the patronage of Italian sacred music in seventeenth-century Dresden / Mary E. Frandsen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frandsen, Mary E., 1957-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church music--Germany--Dresden--17th century.

Church music.

Chapels royal--Germany--Dresden.

Chapels royal.

Dresden (Germany)--Court and courtiers.

Dresden (Germany).

Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony, 1613-1680.

Johann Georg.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (529 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Shortly after assuming the Saxon throne in 1656, Lutheran Elector Johann Georg II (r. 1656-80) replaced the elder Kapellmeister Heinrich Schutz with younger Italian Catholic composers. Seemingly overnight, sacred music in the most modern Italian style, first by Vincenzo Albrici (1631-90/96)and later by Giuseppe Peranda (ca. 1625-75) supplanted the more traditional Schutzian sacred concerto and Spruchmotette, effecting a change in musical and spiritual life both within the walls of the Dresden court and beyond. Drawing on extensive research in primary source materials, Frandsen explores the ele

Contents:

Prologue : the forgotten Mazen Johann Georg II

The advent of the Italians, 1651-56

The Italianate Hofkapelle of Johann Georg II, 1656-80

Johann Georg II and the problem of Catholicism

Piety, penitence, and praise : the Dresden textual repertoire

Roma trapiantata : the new sacred concerto in Dresden

Musica pathetica : style and affect in the Dresden concerto

Johann Georg's vision for worship

Musik im Gottesdienst : the liturgical year at the Dresden court

Epilogue : Johann Georg II remembered.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 481-499) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-986249-4

9786610845149

1-4294-0290-3

0-19-534636-X

1-280-84514-7

OCLC:

191924297