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