Music as cultural mission : explorations of Jesuit practices in Italy and North America / edited by Anthony DelDonna, Anna Harwell Celenza.

Format:

• Book

Contributor:

• DelDonna, Anthony, editor.
• Celenza, Anna Harwell, editor.

Series:

• Early modern Catholicism and the visual arts series ; 9.
• Early Modern Catholicism and the Visual Arts Series ; 9

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Church music--Catholic Church.
• Jesuits--Missions--Italy--Music--History.
• Jesuits--Missions--North America--Music--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Saint Joseph's University Press, 2014.

Contents:

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Series Editor's Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: The Jesuits and Music
• Part I: The Jesuit Cultural Mission in Early Modern Italy
• Introduction: Jesuit Institutions in Two Urban Centers: Milan and Naples
• Chapter 1: Jesuit Music in Eighteenth-Century Italy: North versus South
• Chapter 2: "The music must serve the poetry": The Jesuit Oratorio in Eighteenth-Century Milan
• Chapter 3: Andrea Perrucci's Dell'arte rappresentativa and the Influence of Jesuit Theater
• Chapter 4: The Musical and Theatrical Activities of the Jesuits in the Kingdom of Naples: Accounts from the Gazzetta di Napoli (1675-1768)
• Chapter 5: Sacred Itineraries in Early Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Musical Activities of the Gesù Nuovo
• Chapter 6: Musical Events and Spectacles in the Collegio of Nobles
• Chapter 7: The Society of Jesus and Neapolitan Musical Culture in the Early Eighteenth Century
• Part II: The Jesuit Cultural Mission in North America
• Introduction: Creating Models of Implementation for the Cultural Mission: The Jesuits as Pedagogues, Scholars, and Missionaries of Music
• Chapter 8: Adopting Rituals: The Jesuits and the Huron Noël, "Jesous Ahatonnia"
• Chapter 9: A Jesuit University in the New World: Music's Cultural Mission at Georgetown University (1789-1930)
• Chapter 10: Bridging the Distance: Jesuit Performance Transposed to a Contemporary Key
• Bibliography
• List of Contributors
• Index.

Notes:

• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-945402-03-2

OCLC:

958518520