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Author Getz, Christine Suzanne, 1957-

Title Mary, music, and meditation : sacred conversations in post-Tridentine Milan / Christine Getz
Published Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (x, 355 pages) : illustrations
Series Music and the early modern imagination
Music and the early modern imagination.
Contents Introduction : Marian devotion and meditation in post-Tridentine Milan -- Venerating the veil : the Madonna of miracles at Santa Maria presso San Celso -- The art of lamenting : the cult of the Madonna Addolorata at Santa Maria dei Servi -- Singing before a Madonna on the pilaster : the Society of the Ave Maria in Duomo -- Invoking the Mulier fortis : the Confraternity of the Rosary -- Clothed in the sun and standing on the moon : meditating motherhood in the cult of the Madonna del Parto -- Epilogue : the case of Santa Maria Segreta
Summary Burdened by famine, the plague, and economic hardship in the 1500s, the troubled citizens of Milan, mindful of their mortality, turned toward the veneration of the Virgin Mary and the creation of evangelical groups in her name. By 1594, the diversity of these lay religious organizations reflected in microcosm the varied expressions of Marian devotion in the Italian peninsula. Using archival documents, meditation and music books, and iconographical sources, the author examines the role of music in these Marian cults and confraternities in order to better understand the Church's efforts at using music to evangelize outside the confines of court and cathedral through its most popular saint. This book reveals how the private music making within these cults, particularly among women, became the primary mode through which the Catholic Church propagated its ideals of femininity and motherhood
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Songs and music -- History and criticism
Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint -- Devotion to -- Italy -- Milan
SUBJECT Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint fast
Katholische Kirche gnd
Subject Church music -- Catholic Church -- 16th century
Church music -- Italy -- Milan -- 16th century
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Mariology.
Church music
Church music -- Catholic Church
Devotion
Songs
Kirchenmusik
Marienverehrung
Italy -- Milan
Mailand
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012036072
ISBN 0253007968
9780253007964