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Author Bertoglio, Chiara, 1983- author.

Title Reforming music : music and the religious Reformations of the sixteenth century / Chiara Bertoglio
Published Berlin ; Boston : Walter de Gruyter, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 836 pages)
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
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
Analysis (Produktform)Electronic book text
(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft
(BISAC Subject Heading)REL067080
(BISAC Subject Heading)MUS048010: MUS048010 MUSIC / Religious / Christian
(BISAC Subject Heading)HIS037030: HIS037030 HISTORY / Modern / General
(BISAC Subject Heading)MUS022000: MUS022000 MUSIC / Instruction & Study / General
(BISAC Subject Heading)HIS000000: HIS000000 HISTORY / General
(BISAC Subject Heading)REL082000: REL082000 RELIGION / Christianity / Lutheran
(BISAC Subject Heading)REL116000: REL116000 RELIGION / Religious Intolerance, Persecution & Conflict
Reformations; Early Modern; Polyphony; Sixteenth century
(VLB-WN)9542
Early Modern
Polyphony
Reformations
Sixteenth century
(Produktrabattgruppe)PR: rabattbeschränkt/Bibliothekswerke
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 703-793) and indexes
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed Feb. 24, 2017)
Subject Church music -- 16th century
Reformation.
Reformation.
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Church music
Reformation
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110520811
3110520818
9783110519334
311051933X