Music, piety, and propaganda : the soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria / Alexander J. Fisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This title explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation.

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Cover; Music, Piety, and Propaganda; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations for Source Locations; About the Companion Website; CHAPTER ONE 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 ; CHAPTER TWO Sound and the Spaces of Worship ; Public Churches and the Experience of Liturgical Space ; Congregational Song ; The Jesuits and Counter-Reformation Worship in Munich and Beyond

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 ; CHAPTER THREE Sound and the 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

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