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Author Fisher, Alexander J., author

Title Music, piety, and propaganda : the soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria / Alexander J. Fisher
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white), music
Series The new cultural history of music
New cultural history of music.
Contents Cover; Music, Piety, and Propaganda; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for Source Locations; About the Companion Website; CHAPTER ONE Sound, Space, and Confession in Counter-Reformation Bavaria ; Historical Soundscapes ; Sound, Space, and Place ; Identity, Discipline, and Confessionalization
The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria The Structure and Scope of the Book ; CHAPTER TWO Sound and the Spaces of Worship ; Public Churches and the Experience of Liturgical Space ; Congregational Song ; The Jesuits and Counter-Reformation Worship in Munich and Beyond
Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parish Churches in the Age of Tridentine Reform The Cathedral of Freising ; Unsere Liebe Frau in Munich ; St. Peter in Munich ; Liturgy in the Religious Orders ; Courtly Spaces for Liturgy: The Bavarian Court Chapel
The Court Chapel of St. George and Liturgical Music in the Sixteenth Century The New Court Chapel of Mary of the Immaculate Conception and Liturgical Music under Maximilian I ; CHAPTER THREE Sound and the Spaces of Devotion ; Devotional Polyphony for Cultivated Spaces ; Monastic Devotion
Confraternities and Congregations The Marian Congregations ; Marian, Eucharistic, and Other Confraternities ; Corporate Devotional Services and Gatherings ; Funerals and Burials ; Salve Services ; Seasonal Devotions for Christmas and Lent ; Supplications and Celebrations
Summary This title explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on February 28, 2014)
Subject Church music -- Germany -- Bavaria -- 16th century
Church music -- Germany -- Bavaria -- 17th century
Counter-Reformation -- Germany -- Bavaria
Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Church music
Counter-Reformation
Music -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Germany -- Bavaria
Form Electronic book
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