Hearing Faith

Andrew A. Cashner, PhD (2015, University of Chicago), is an assistant professor of music at the University of Rochester. Recipient of the American Musicological Society’s 2015 Alfred Einstein Award, he published a critical edition of Villancicos about Music in 2017.

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List of Illustrations and Tables

Part 1 Listening for Faith



1 Villancicos as Musical Theology

 1 Singing about Singing

 2 Paying Attention to Villancicos

 3 Music about Music in the Villancico Genre

 4 Theological Listening in the Neoplatonic Tradition



2 Making Faith Appeal to Hearing

 1 “The Sense Most Easily Deceived”

 2 Well-Tempered Hearing

 3 Accommodating and Training the Ear

 4 Impaired Hearers, Incompetent Teachers: “Villancicos of the Deaf”

 5 Failures of Faithful Hearing



Part 2 Listening for Unhearable Music



3 Christ as Singer and Song (Puebla, 1657)

 1 “Voices of the Chapel Choir” and the “Unspeaking Word”

 2 Music about Music in the Voices of Puebla’s Chapel Choir

 3 Devotion to Christ as Singer and Song

 4 Establishing a Pedigree in a Lineage of Metamusical Composition

 5 “All Who Heard It Were Amazed”



4 Heavenly Dissonance (Montserrat, 1660s)

 1 Cererols and the Boys’ School Choir of Montserrat

 2 The “New Consonance”

 3 Worldly and Heavenly Music

 4 Genealogies of Heavenly Music

 5 The Problem of Perfection



5 Offering and Imitation (Zaragoza, 1650–1700)

 1 “Let Voices Ascend to Heaven”: From Bruna to Ambiela

 2 Christ as a Vihuela (Cáseda)

 3 Conclusions



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