Lutheran Music Culture / Mattias Lundberg, Maria Schildt and Jonas Lundblad, editors.

Format:

Book

Series:

Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; Volume 142.

Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte ; Volume 142

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Church music--Lutheran Church.

Church music.

Lutheran Church--Hymns.

Lutheran Church.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vi, 325 pages) : 15 illustrations (some colour).

Place of Publication:

Berlin, Germany : Walter de Gruyter GmbH, [2022]

Summary:

This volume presents a novel and distinct contribution to previous research on the rich Lutheran heritage of music. It builds upon a current surge of interest in the field, which resonates with a wider interest in connections between music and religion, as well as with cultural and aesthetic dimensions of faith at large. The book situates the topic in relation to recent developments within historical and cultural studies that have developed a more nuanced and positive view of the interplay between theologians and other cultural agents in the evolution of Western modernity during post Reformation processes of ‘confessionalization’. It combines conceptual discussions of key terms relevant to the study of the development and significance of an Early Modern Lutheran Music Culture with theological readings of central texts on music, analytic approaches to historical repertoires and material perspectives on its dissemination.

Contents:

Framing Lutheran music culture / Mattias Lundberg, Maria Schildt, Jonas Lundblad

The Word of God and music in Luther: re-reading Luther's 1538 Rhau preface / Dietrich Korsch

"Musicam semper amavi": What is remarkable about Luther's views on music / Eyolf Østrem

Did the choir introduce German humns to the Wittenberg Congregations? / Robin A. Leaver

Liturgical foundations from the Court of Maximillian I and the hope of salvation / Grantley McDonald

Joahnn Reusch's Zehen deudscher Psalm Davids (1551) and the circulation of German Psalm motets in Northern Europe / Maria Schildt

Luther, Mattheson, and the joy of music / Joyce L. Irwin

Reading belief through compositional unity: J. S. Bach's resonse to a Lutheran theology of proportions / Ruth Tatlow

J. S. Bach, the Fuga Contraria, and the Lutheran concept of Umkehr / Pieter Dirksen

"Defenders of music" as a topos of collective self-fashioning in Lutheran writings from Early Modern Sweden / Mattias Lundberg

Luther in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy's Hymn of Praise / Michaela G. Grochulski

The "Lutheran Style": Aesthetics, theology and politics in Oskar Söhngen's writings / Jonas Lundblad

Beyond "Church-dividing" differences: music and new ecumenical perspectives on justification / Chiara Bertoglio

Lutheran music culture - a reflection / John Butt

Appendix 1: Martin Luther's 1538 draft to the Encomion musices

Appendix 2: Preface by Johannes Bugenhagen to Balthasar Resinarius: Responsorium numero octoginta de temore, 1544

Appendix 3: Preface by Philipp Melanchthon to Johann Reusch: Zehen deudscher Psalm Davids, 1551.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

3-11-068095-5

OCLC:

1280945759