Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria (New Cultural History of Music)

Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers, styles, and genres to examine how music, and more broadly sound itself, shaped the aural landscape of Bavaria as the duchy emerged as a militant Catholic bulwark. Fisher focuses particularly on the ways in which sound--including bell-ringing, gunfire, and popular song, as well as cultivated polyphony--not only was deployed by Catholic secular and clerical elites to shape the religious identities of Bavarian subjects, but also carried the potential to challenge and undermine confessional boundaries. Surviving literature, archival documents, and music illustrate the ways in which Bavarian authorities and their allies in the Catholic clergy and orders deployed sound to underline crucial theological differences with their Protestant antagonists, notably the cults of the Virgin Mary, the Eucharist, and the saints. Official and popular rituals like divine worship, processions, and pilgrimages all featured distinctive sounds and music that shaped and reflected an emerging Catholic identity. Although officials imposed a severe regime of religious surveillance, the Catholic state's dominance of the soundscape was hardly assured. Fisher traces archival sources that show the resilience of Protestant vernacular song in Bavaria, the dissemination and performance of forbidden, anti-Catholic songs, the presence of Lutheran chorales in nominally Catholic church services into the late 16th century, and the persistence of popular "noise" more generally. Music, Piety, and Propaganda thus reveals historical, theological, and cultural issues of the period through the piercing dimension of its sounds, bringing into focus the import of sound as a strategic cultural tool with significant impact on the flow of history. Cover 1 Music, Piety, and Propaganda 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 12 Abbreviations for Source Locations 16 About the Companion Website 18 CHAPTER ONE Sound, Space, and Confession in Counter-Reformation Bavaria 22 Historical Soundscapes 25 Sound, Space, and Place 30 Identity, Discipline, and Confessionalization 34 The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria 38 The Structure and Scope of the Book 48 CHAPTER TWO Sound and the Spaces of Worship 51 Public Churches and the Experience of Liturgical Space 53 Congregational Song 53 The Jesuits and Counter-Reformation Worship in Munich and Beyond 62 Cathedral, Collegiate, and Parish Churches in the Age of Tridentine Reform 75 The Cathedral of Freising 76 Unsere Liebe Frau in Munich 77 St. Peter in Munich 85 Liturgy in the Religious Orders 87 Courtly Spaces for Liturgy: The Bavarian Court Chapel 98 The Court Chapel of St. George and Liturgical Music in the Sixteenth Century 98 The New Court Chapel of Mary of the Immaculate Conception and Liturgical Music under Maximilian I 106 CHAPTER THREE Sound and the Spaces of Devotion 126 Devotional Polyphony for Cultivated Spaces 127 Monastic Devotion 151 Confraternities and Congregations 161 The Marian Congregations 162 Marian, Eucharistic, and Other Confraternities 168 Corporate Devotional Services and Gatherings 177 Funerals and Burials 177 Salve Services 180 Seasonal Devotions for Christmas and Lent 182 Supplications and Celebrations 189 Song and the Soundscape 191 Protestant Song, Censorship, and Suppression 193 Catholic Song in Bavaria 199 CHAPTER FOUR Sound and Confession in the Civic Sphere 211 Bells and the Urban Soundscape 213 Regulating the Sounds of Profane Life 226 Song in the Public Sphere 234 Sound in Public Religious Spectacles 244 CHAPTER FIVE Music, Sound, and Processional Culture 266 Corpus Christi Processions 270 The Corpus Christi Procession in Munich 274 Good Friday Processions 287 Processions of Supplication and Triumph 290 CHAPTER SIX Sound, Pilgrimage, and the Spiritual Geography of Counter-Reformation Bavaria 297 Pilgrimage in the Reformation and Counter-Reformation Bavaria 299 Songs and Litanies in Pilgrimage 304 Bavarian Pilgrimage Songs 305 The Litany in Bavarian Pilgrimage 325 Sound in the Practice of Pilgrimage 333 Departure 333 En Route and upon Arrival 334 A Pilgrimage to St. Benno in Munich 347 Bibliography 352 Index 374 __Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter-Reformation Bavaria__Surviving literature, archival documents, and music illustrate the ways in which Bavarian authorities and their allies in the Catholic clergy and orders deployed sound to underline crucial theological differences with their Protestant antagonists, notably the cults of the Virgin Mary, the Eucharist, and the saints. Official and popular rituals like divine worship, processions, and pilgrimages all featured distinctive sounds and music that shaped and reflected an emerging Catholic identity. Although officials imposed a severe regime of religious surveillance, the Catholic state's dominance of the soundscape was hardly assured. Fisher traces archival sources that show the resilience of Protestant vernacular song in Bavaria, the dissemination and performance of forbidden, anti-Catholic songs, the presence of Lutheran chorales in nominally Catholic church services into the late 16th century, and the persistence of popular "noise" more generally. thus reveals historical, theological, and cultural issues of the period through the piercing dimension of its sounds, bringing into focus the import of sound as a strategic cultural tool with significant impact on the flow of history. " ... Explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers, styles, and genres to examine how music, and more broadly sound itself, shaped the aural landscape of Bavaria as the duchy emerged as a militant Catholic bulwark. Fisher focuses particularly on the ways in which sound--including bell-ringing, gunfire, and popular song, as well as cultivated polyphony--not only was deployed by Catholic secular and clerical elites to shape the religious identities of Bavarian subjects, but also carried the potential to challenge and undermine confessional boundaries"--Publisher's web site, March 14, 2014 " ... Explores the nature of sound as a powerful yet ambivalent force in the religious struggles that permeated Germany during the Counter-Reformation. Author Alexander J. Fisher goes beyond a musicological treatment of composers, styles, and genres to examine how music, and more broadly sound itself, shaped the aural landscape of Bavaria as the duchy emerged as a militant Catholic bulwark. Fisher focuses particularly on the ways in which sound - including bell-ringing, gunfire, and popular song, as well as cultivated polyphony - not only was deployed by Catholic secular and clerical elites to shape the religious identities of Bavarian subjects, but also carried the potential to challenge and undermine confessional boundaries"--> internetna str. založnika