Lutheran Music Culture : : Ideals and Practices / / ed. by Maria Schildt, Jonas Lundblad, Mattias Lundberg.

This volume presents a novel and distinct contribution to previous research on the rich Lutheran heritage of music. It builds upon a current surge of interest in the field, which resonates with a wider interest in connections between music and religion, as well as with cultural and aesthetic dimensi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Ebook Package English 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Arbeiten zur Kirchengeschichte , 142
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Physical Description:1 online resource (VII, 325 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Framing Lutheran Music Culture
  • The Word of God and Music in Luther: Re-Reading Luther’s 1538 Rhau Preface
  • “Musicam semper amavi”: What is Remarkable about Luther’s Views on Music?
  • Did the Choir Introduce German Hymns to the Wittenberg Congregations?
  • Liturgical Foundations from the Court of Maximilian I and the Hope of Salvation
  • Johann Reusch’s Zehen deudscher Psalm Davids (1551) and the Circulation of German Psalm Motets in Northern Europe
  • Luther, Mattheson, and the Joy of Music
  • Reading Belief through Compositional Unity: J. S. Bach’s Response to a Lutheran Theology of Proportions
  • J. S. Bach, the Fuga Contraria, and the Lutheran Concept of Umkehr
  • “Defenders of music” as a Topos of Collective Self-Fashioning in Lutheran Writings from Early Modern Sweden
  • Luther in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Hymn of Praise
  • The “Lutheran Style”: Aesthetics, Theology and Politics in Oskar Söhngen’s Writings
  • Beyond “Church-dividing” Differences: Music and New Ecumenical Perspectives on Justification
  • Lutheran Music Culture – A Reflection
  • Appendix 1: Martin Luther’s 1538 draft to the Encomion musices
  • Appendix 2: Preface by Johannes Bugenhagen to Balthasar Resinarius: Responsorium numero octoginta de tempore, 1544
  • Appendix 3: Preface by Philipp Melanchthon to Johann Reusch: Zehen deudscher Psalm Davids, 1551
  • Index of Names