Music, piety, and propaganda : the soundscapes of counter-reformation Bavaria

Zusammenfassung: " ... 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

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• ISBN: 9780199764648
• Dimensions: 24 cm
• Extent: xvi, 359 Seiten
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Illustrationen, Noten

Classification and Topics

• Keyword: Church music ; Counter-Reformation ; Music--Religious aspects--Christianity ; Germany--Bavaria ; Gegenreformation ; Kirchenmusik ; Kirchenmusik ; Gegenreformation ; Bayern ; Bayern

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Oxford, New York
• (who): Oxford University Press
• (when): [2014]
• Creator: Fisher, Alexander

Further information

• Table of contents: https://d-nb.info/1126759619/04
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