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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' city in the Empire, housing a Protestant majority and a Catholic minority, ruled by a city government divided between the two faiths. The period 1580-1630 saw a gradual widening of the divide between these groups. The arrival of the Jesuits in the 1580s polarized the religious atmosphere and fueled the assertion of a Catholic identity, expressed in public devotional services, spectacular processions, and pilgrimages to local shrines. The Catholic music produced for these occasions both reflected and contributed to the religious divide. This book explores the relationship between music and religious identity in Augsburg during this period. How did 'Catholic' and 'Protestant' repertories diverge from one another? What was the impetus for this differentiation, and what effect did the circulation and performance of this music have on Augsburg's religious culture? These questions call for a new, cross-disciplinary approach to the music history of this era, one which moves beyond traditional accounts of the lives and works of composers, or histories of polyphonic genres. Using a wide variety of archival and musical documents, Alexander Fisher offers a holistic view of this musical landscape, examining aspects of composition, circulation, performance, and cultural meaning [Publisher description].

Music --- History of civilization --- Christian church history --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Augsburg --- Church music --- Counter-Reformation --- Musique d'église --- Contre-Réforme --- Musique --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- Aspect religieux --- Christianisme --- 4.415. --- Musique d'église --- Contre-Réforme --- Germany --- Augsburg (Germany) --- 16th century --- 17th century --- Christianity --- Pastoral music (Sacred) --- Religious music --- Sacred vocal music --- Devotional exercises --- Liturgics --- Music in churches --- Psalmody --- History and criticism --- Anti-Reformation --- Church history --- Church renewal --- Reformation

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

Church music --- Counter-Reformation --- Music --- Anti-Reformation --- Church history --- Church renewal --- Reformation --- Pastoral music (Sacred) --- Religious music --- Sacred vocal music --- Devotional exercises --- Liturgics --- Music in churches --- Psalmody --- Religious aspects --- Christianity. --- History and criticism --- Christianity

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Religieuze muziek --- Stem --- Basso continuo --- Duitsland --- 16e eeuw --- Concerto's --- 17e eeuw

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These eleven essays, all centrally concerned with the intimate relationship between sound, religion, and society in the early modern world, present a sequence of test cases located in a wide variety of urban environments in Europe and the Americas. Written by an international cast of acclaimed historians and musicologists, they explore in depth the interrelated notions of conversion and confessionalisation in the shared belief that the early modern city was neither socially static nor religiously uniform. With its examples drawn from the Holy Roman Empire and the Southern Netherlands, the pluri-religious Mediterranean, and the colonial Americas both North and South, this book takes discussion of the urban soundscape, so often discussed in purely traditional terms of European institutional histories, to a new level of engagement with the concept of a totally immersive acoustic environment as conceptualised by R. Murray Schafer. From the Protestants of Douai, a bastion of the Catholic Reformation, to the bi-confessional city of Augsburg and seventeenth-century Farmington in Connecticut, where the indigenous Indian population fashioned a separate Christian entity, the intertwined religious, musical, and emotional lives of specifically grounded communities of early modern men and women are here vividly brought to life.

Cities and towns --- Sociology, Urban --- City noise --- Music --- Sound --- Global cities --- Municipalities --- Towns --- Urban areas --- Urban systems --- Human settlements --- Urban sociology --- Urban noise --- Noise --- Acoustics --- Continuum mechanics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- Pneumatics --- Radiation --- Wave-motion, Theory of --- Songs and music&delete& --- History and criticism --- History --- Religious aspects&delete& --- Church music --- Reformation and music --- City sounds --- Conversion --- Musique --- Musique d'église --- Réforme (Chrisitianisme) et musique --- Sociologie urbaine --- Religious aspects --- Religious aspects. --- Social aspects . --- Christianity. --- Aspect religieux --- Aspect social --- Art music --- Art music, Western --- Classical music --- Musical compositions --- Musical works --- Serious music --- Western art music --- Western music (Western countries) --- Songs and music --- Muziek en religie --- Muziek --- History of civilization --- music [performing arts genre] --- cultuurgeschiedenis --- anno 1500-1799