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Overview"Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria 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. Surviving literature, archival documents, and music illustrate the ways in which Bavarian authorities and their allies in the Catholic clergy and orders deployed sound to underline crucial theological differences with their Protestant antagonists, notably the cults of the Virgin Mary, the Eucharist, and the saints. Official and popular rituals like divine worship, processions, and pilgrimages all featured distinctive sounds and music that shaped and reflected an emerging Catholic identity. Although officials imposed a severe regime of religious surveillance, the Catholic state's dominance of the soundscape was hardly assured. Fisher traces archival sources that show the resilience of Protestant vernacular song in Bavaria, the dissemination and performance of forbidden, anti-Catholic songs, the presence of Lutheran chorales in nominally Catholic church services into the late 16th century, and the persistence of popular ""noise"" more generally. Music, Piety, and Propaganda thus reveals historical, theological, and cultural issues of the period through the piercing dimension of its sounds, bringing into focus the import of sound as a strategic cultural tool with significant impact on the flow of history." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexander J. Fisher (Associate Professor of Music, Associate Professor of Music, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.60cm , Height: 3.60cm , Length: 16.50cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780199764648ISBN 10: 0199764646 Pages: 384 Publication Date: 23 January 2014 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsTable of Contents Acknowledgments Abbreviations for Source Locations I. 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 II. Sound and the Spaces of Worship Public churches and the experience of liturgical space Congregational song St. Michael in Munich, the Jesuits, and Counter-Reformation worship 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 III. Sound and 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 Song and the soundscape IV. Sound and Confession in the Civic Sphere Bells and the urban soundscape Regulating the sounds of profane life Song in the public sphere Sound in public religious spectacles V. Music, Sound, and Processional Culture Corpus Christi processions The Corpus Christi procession in Munich Good Friday processions Processions of supplication and triumph VI. Sound, Pilgrimage, and the Spiritual Geography of Counter-Reformation Bavaria Pilgrimage in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation The music of pilgrimage: songs and litanies Bavarian pilgrimage songs The litany in Bavarian pilgrimage Sound in the practice of pilgrimage Departure En route and upon arrival A pilgrimage to St. Benno in Munich Bibliography IndexReviewsAlexander Fisher skilfully recreates the diverse and colourful sound-world in a monograph that, thanks to the combination of insight and overview, will be greatly valued by specialists in this area and by those new to the material. Elisabeth Giselbrecht, Music and Letters [Alexander] Fisher has written a fascinating, richly detailed, and exceedingly well-documented study. By employing the conceptual framework of the soundscape he opts for a contextually broad and inclusive examination of musi cand music making in Counter-Reformation Bavaria...the reader will likely focus on the richness of concepts, repertories, and published and archival sources that have been brought to light in this remarkable study. Certainly this book will prove foundational for further study of music in Bavaria during this time of religious reexamination and confessional consolidation. --Journal of the American Musicological Society This book is a wonderful addition to the scholarship on soundscapes[.] --Sixteenth Century Journal In this book, musicologist Alexander Fisher gives us an ear-opening account of the soundscape of early modern Bavaria. Music is his chief concern and, as well as the prolific and central outpit of Orland di Lasso (died Munich, 1594), he looks at the work of lesser-known composers, hymn writers, song collectors, street performers, and pamphlet publishers. But he casts a wide net, taking in bagpipes, hurdy-gurdies, cheering, bells, gunfire, and cannon. Fisher's aim is to bring together musicology and soundscape studies to inquire into the way sound gives shape to space and identity. --Renaissance and Reformation Author InformationAlexander J. Fisher is Associate Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. A musicologist specializing in music, sound, and religious culture in early modern Europe, he teaches courses in early music and coordinates the university's Early Music Ensemble. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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