| Description |
xvi, 359 pages : illustrations, music ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
New cultural history of music
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New cultural history of music.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Found, space, and confession in counter-reformation Bavaria -- Sound and the spaces of worship -- Sound and the spaces of devotion -- Sound and confession in the civic sphere -- Music, sound, and processional -- Sound, pilgrimage, and the spiritual geography of counter-reformation Bavaria. |
| Summary |
" ... Explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers, styles, and genres to examine how music, and more broadly sound itself, shaped the aural landscape of Bavaria as the duchy emerged as a militant Catholic bulwark. Fisher focuses particularly on the ways in which sound--including bell-ringing, gunfire, and popular song, as well as cultivated polyphony--not only was deployed by Catholic secular and clerical elites to shape the religious identities of Bavarian subjects, but also carried the potential to challenge and undermine confessional boundaries"--Publisher's web site, March 14, 2014. |
| Language |
English text. |
| Subject |
Church music -- Germany -- Bavaria -- 16th century.
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Church music. |
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Germany -- Bavaria. |
| Chronological Term |
16th century |
| Subject |
Church music -- Germany -- Bavaria -- 17th century.
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| Chronological Term |
17th century |
| Subject |
Counter-Reformation -- Germany -- Bavaria.
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Counter-Reformation. |
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Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. |
| Chronological Term |
1500 - 1699 |
| ISBN |
9780199764648 (hardback) |
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0199764646 |
| Standard No. |
40023244243 |
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