Convent Music and Politics in Eighteenth-Century Vienna

Contents

• Introduction: female convents and music in Vienna, 1650-1785;
• 1. Columbina in the convent: the music of entrance, clothing, and profession in Viennese convents;
• 2. Maria Anna von Raschenau and music at the convent of St Jakob auf der Hulben;
• 3. Court, music, and Counter-Reformation education in an Ursuline convent;
• 4. 'A virtual picture of Arcadia': musical entertainments for Leopold I and Joseph I;
• 5. Commedia dell'arte, talking animals, and the three Marys: passion music in Viennese convents;
• 6. Convents, music, and Habsburg rule in eighteenth-century Vienna; Appendix
• 1. Plays, oratorios, cantatas, Sepolcri, and Feste teatrali performed in Viennese convents, ca.1660-1774; Appendix
• 2. Selected documents; Appendix
• 3. The Habsburgs and their family connections; Appendix
• 4. Glossary of terms and titles.