Reforming music : music and the religious reformations of the sixteenth century / Chiara Bertoglio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bertoglio, Chiara, 1983- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church music--16th century.

Church music.

Reformation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (872 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berlin, [Germany] ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : De Gruyter, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Five hundred years ago a monk nailed his theses to a church gate in Wittenberg. The sound of Luther’s mythical hammer, however, was by no means the only aural manifestation of the religious Reformations.This book describes the birth of Lutheran Chorales and Calvinist Psalmody; of how music was practised by Catholic nuns, Lutheran schoolchildren, battling Huguenots, missionaries and martyrs, cardinals at Trent and heretics in hiding, at a time when Palestrina, Lasso and Tallis were composing their masterpieces, and forbidden songs were concealed, smuggled and sung in taverns and princely courts alike.Music expressed faith in the Evangelicals’ emerging worships and in the Catholics’ ancient rites; through it new beliefs were spread and heresy countered; analysed by humanist theorists, it comforted and consoled miners, housewives and persecuted preachers; it was both the symbol of new, conflicting identities and the only surviving trace of a lost unity of faith.The music of the Reformations, thus, was music reformed, music reforming and the reform of music: this book shows what the Reformations sounded like, and how music became one of the protagonists in the religious conflicts of the sixteenth century.

Contents:

Framing a century

Music, society and culture

Criticising sacred music

The reformers' concept of music

Music in the Evangelical Churches: luther

Music in the Evangelical Churches: Calvin

Music in the Church of England

Music and the Council of Trent

Music after Trent

Music and confessionalisation

Music beyond confessionalisation

Music and women.Framing a century

Music and women.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110519334

311051933X

9783110520811

3110520818

OCLC:

979847688