Music and Religious Education in Early Modern Europe

Hyun-Ah Kim is an Associate Fellow at the HDC Centre for Religious History, VU University Amsterdam, and an International Research Fellow at the Europäische Melanchthon-Akademie Bretten. Her publications include The Praise of Musicke (2017) and Renaissance Ethics of Music (2015).

Preface


List of Figures, Tables and Diagrams


Notes on Contributors


Introduction Music and Religious Education in Early Modern Europe

  Hyun-Ah Kim



PART 1

Music, Pedagogy and Edification: Concepts and Theories

1 “Singing without Understanding” The Defence of the Unintelligible in Lefèvre d’Étaples’ Quincuplex Psalterium (1509/1513)

  Michael O’Connor



2 Music, Rhetoric and the Humanist Pedagogy of Hebrew Biblical Chant Reuchlin’s Reconstruction of the Modulata recitatio

  Hyun-Ah Kim



3 Cross and Creation Rethinking the Aesthetic Foundations of Luther’s Theology of Music

  Svein Aage Christoffersen



4 Förståndelig and Förbättring through Liturgical Music in the Swedish Reformation Olaus and Laurentius Petri on the Concepts of Intelligibility and Edification

  Mattias Lundberg



PART 2

Religious Education through Music: Contexts and Practices

5 Conrad Celtis’s Melopoiae (1507) and Metrical Singing in the Church

  Andrea Horz



6 From Pious Poems to Protestant Hymns Cult, Culture and the Psalms of Clément Marot

  Dick Wursten



7 Text, Image and Music The Hymns of Martin Behm (1557–1622) and Religious Education in Context

  Martin Christ



8 Music in the Curricula of Charitable Religious Institutions in Early Modern Rome

  Noel O’Regan



9 Metrical Psalmody and Religious Education in Early Modern Scotland

  Timothy Duguid



Index