Music, Piety, and Propaganda

Alexander J. Fisher is Assistant Professor of Music at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. A musicologist specializing in music, sound, and religious culture in early modern Europe, he teaches courses in early music and coordinates the university's Early Music Ensemble.

• 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

In this book, musicologist Alexander Fisher gives us an ear-opening account of the soundscape of early modern Bavaria. Music is his chief concern and, as well as the prolific and central output of Orlando di Lasso (died Munich, 1594), he looks at the work of lesser-known composers, hymn writers, song collectors, street performers, and pamphlet publishers.