1st Edition
Music and Religious Identity in Counter-Reformation Augsburg, 1580-1630
By Alexander J. Fisher
Copyright 2004
362 Pages
by
Routledge
361 Pages
by
Routledge
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By the late-sixteenth century, Augsburg was one of the largest cities of the Holy Roman Empire, boasting an active musical life involving the contributions of musicians like Jacobus de Kerle, Hans Leo Hassler, and Gregor Aichinger. This musical culture, however, unfolded against a backdrop of looming religious schism. From the mid-sixteenth century onward, Augsburg was the largest 'biconfessional'... Read more
Contents: Music and religious identity in a divided city; Protestant song and criminality; Musical life and Lutheranism at St Anna; The Counter-Reformation and the Catholic liturgy in Augsburg; Devotional music in Counter-Reformation Augsburg; So vil choros musicorum: music in Catholic processions; The Holy Mountain: music in Catholic pilgrimage; Music, confession, and the disaster of the Thirty Years' War; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Alexander J. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia, Canada.
'... an interesting study, with enough music quoted to give an idea of what the evangelising catholics were trying to do... ' Early Music Review '... an engaging account that will be of interest to music and non-music historians alike, Fisher's 'case for Catholic music' restores a much needed balance to the scholarly literature on early seventeenth-century German lands.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'This book is an outstanding specimen of the growing literature on urban religious and musical life in early modern Europe. It may not yield an entirely straightforward picture of Augsburg's history [...] but Fisher has made a significant, even indispensable, contritution towards that history.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History
