Church Music and Protestantism in Post-Reformation England breaks new ground in the religious history of Elizabethan England through a closely focused study of the role of music and the Reformation. ...By reintegrating music back into the study of the Elizabethan church, it provides an enriched understanding of the complex process of the formation of religious identity, and what it actually meant to be Protestant in post-Reformation England.
Island Gospel Butler, Melvin L
10/2019, Volume:
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Pentecostals throughout Jamaica and the Jamaican diaspora use music to declare what they believe and where they stand in relation to religious and cultural outsiders. Yet the inclusion of secular ...music forms like ska, reggae, and dancehall complicated music's place in social and ritual practice, challenging Jamaican Pentecostals to reconcile their religious and cultural identities. Melvin Butler journeys into this crossing of boundaries and its impact on Jamaican congregations and the music they make. Using the concept of flow, Butler's ethnography evokes both the experience of Spirit-influenced performance and the transmigrations that fuel the controversial sharing of musical and ritual resources between Jamaica and the United States. Highlighting constructions of religious and cultural identity, Butler illuminates music's vital place in how the devout regulate spiritual and cultural flow while striving to maintain both the sanctity and fluidity of their evolving tradition.Insightful and original, Island Gospel tells the many stories of how music and religious experience unite to create a sense of belonging among Jamaican people of faith.
Immaculate Sounds Favila, Cesar D
2023, 2023-11-26, 2023-10-20
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In Catholic doctrine, the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary is the belief that Mary, the mother of Christ, was exempt from original sin from the moment of her conception, and thereby a ...co-redeemer alongside her son. Praise for this complicated devotion took place in Europe throughout the medieval period and resounded in the Americas with the founding of the first convent in Mexico City under the Order of the Immaculate Conception in 1540. All other orders of nuns in New Spain branched out from this convent, spreading the Marian devotion throughout the region. In this book, author Cesar D. Favila argues that the sonification of virginity and the Virgin Mary was fundamental to the promotion of the Immaculate Conception doctrine, and that this was part of a complex network of sonified practices in the lives of New Spanish nuns. These ""immaculate sounds,"" a term Favila uses for the cloistered nuns' idealized vocalizations as well as the expression of doctrinal rhetoric through musical metaphors, echoed the highly regulated realm of the convent and played a pivotal role in mediating between the lives of New Spanish nuns and the expectation that they would save the secular world with their vocalized prayers. In addition to the sonification of discipline, Favila shows that immaculate sounds also enhanced the nuns' engagement with their religious practices and facilitated embodied and spiritual engagement with Catholic doctrines. Throughout his study, he delves into rarely studied music sources from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New Spain alongside the rulebooks, devotional literature, and nuns' biographies that regulated convent life and inspired nuns' hymns. In doing so, Favila brings together a narrative of salvation that shines a light on the musical lives of nuns and locates women's agency within a hierarchical society that silenced some women and required others to sing.
Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt des Kirchenmusikalischen Jahrbuchs liegt auf der geistlichen Musik Ludwig van Beethovens. Ergänzend dazu erhält die Ausgabe Studien zur Musik der Renaissance und der ...osteuropäischen Kirchenmusik des 20. Jahrhunderts.
This highly original study examines the history and religious life of the Ottonian Church through its ritual books. With forensic attention to the writing and design of four important manuscripts ...from the city of Mainz - a musician's troper, a priest's ritual handbook, a bishop's pontifical and a copy of the enigmatic compilation now known as the 'Romano-German Pontifical' - Henry Parkes transforms liturgical sources into eloquent witnesses to the ecclesiastical history of early medieval Germany. He also presents the first comprehensive revision of Michel Andrieu's influential 'Romano-German Pontifical' theory, from the dual perspective of Mainz's cathedral of St Martin and its Benedictine monastery of St Alban. Challenging long-held assumptions about the geographies of Ottonian power, in particular the central role of Mainz and its archbishops, the book opens up important new ways of understanding how religious ritual was organised, transmitted and perceived.
In Artistic Disobedience Claudio Bacciagaluppi shows how music practice was an occasion for cross-confessional contacts in 17th- and 18th-century Switzerland, especially in Reformed private music ...societies (collegia musica).
Der inhaltliche Schwerpunkt des Kirchenmusikalischen Jahr¬buchs liegt auf der geistlichen Musik Ludwig van Beethovens. Ergänzend dazu enthält die Ausgabe Studien zur Musik der Renaissance und der ...osteuropäischen Kirchenmusik des 20. Jahrhunderts. Martin Christian Dippon: Textdarstellung und Textinterpretation in Josquins Stabat mater Christine Siegert Messen für Fürst Nikolaus II. Esterházy Julia Ronge Beethovens kirchenmusikalische Ambitionen. Pläne, Ideen und Fragmente Jens Dufner Eine Anleitung zum Improvisieren - Ludwig van Beethovens Begleitungen zu den Lamentationen des Propheten Jeremia Panja Mücke Schikaneders Hoffnungen, oder: Ideen zum narrativen Po-tential von Christus am Oelberge Beate Angelika Kraus Zum religiösen Verständnis von Beethovens Musik in Frankreich Eva Vicarová Zur Entwicklung der böhmischen Chormusik im 20. Jahrhundert Ein Überblick.
Songs of Seoul Harkness, Nicholas
2014., 20131213, 2013, 2013-11-16
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Songs of Seoul is an ethnographic study of voice in South Korea, where the performance of Western opera, art songs, and choral music is an overwhelmingly Evangelical Christian enterprise. Drawing on ...fieldwork in churches, concert halls, and schools of music, Harkness argues that the European-style classical voice has become a specifically Christian emblem of South Korean prosperity. By cultivating certain qualities of voice and suppressing others, Korean Christians strive to personally embody the social transformations promised by their religion: from superstition to enlightenment; from dictatorship to democracy; from sickness to health; from poverty to wealth; from dirtiness to cleanliness; from sadness to joy; from suffering to grace. Tackling the problematic of voice in anthropology and across a number of disciplines, Songs of Seoul develops an innovative semiotic approach to connecting the materiality of body and sound, the social life of speech and song, and the cultural voicing of perspective and personhood.
Mit dem Abriß des gotischen Domes in Hamburg (1804–1807) als Folge der Säkularisierung ging eine fast 1200jährige musikalische Tradition zu Ende. Inderen Verlauf entwickelte sich sowohl die ...katholische (1277 Errichtung einer ‚Cantoria‘) als auch die evangelische Kirchenmusik (von 1529 an) zu einembedeutenden Abschnitt der hamburgischen Kulturgeschichte. In den drei Kapitelndes Buches werden die Baugeschichte des Domes einschließlich der erhaltenen sakralen Kunstwerke, die Zeit der katholischen und die der evangelischen Kirchenmusik beschrieben. Im Mittelpunkt der Kapitel über die Musik stehen die Prosopographien der Kantoren und Organisten sowie die Aufführungskalendermit den an bestimmten kirchlichen Festtagen erklungenen Werken. Abschließend werden, nach musikalischen Gattungen geordnet, die konfessionell verschiedenen Repertorien erörtert. Mit der Abdankung des letzten Kantors (1782) hatte die Dommusik ihr Ende gefunden.
