Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscape of Counter-Reformation Bavaria
- Author: Fisher, Alexander J.
Alexander 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... — More…
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Contents
- Table 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
- Index