Music and Religious Education in Early Modern Europe: The Musical Edification of the Church

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Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Preface
Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Music and Religious Education in Early Modern Europe
	1 The Place of Music in the Early Modern Education: Setting the Agenda
	2 Educating the Soul through Music: The Humanist Approach
	3 Defining the Notions of Intelligibility and Edification
	4 Music, Theology and the Devotional Cultures of the Reformation
	5 The Power of Music in Moral-Religious Education: The Socio-institutional Implications
	6 The Scope of Future Research on the Theme in Question
	Bibliography
Part 1 Music, Pedagogy and Edification
	Chapter 1 “Singing without Understanding”: The Defence of the Unintelligible in Lefèvre d’Étaples’ Quincuplex Psalterium (1509/1513)
		1 Introduction
		2 A Life of Words
		3 Lefèvre and the Psalms
		4 Negative Theology
		5 Jubilation
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 2 Music, Rhetoric and the Humanist Pedagogy of Hebrew Biblical Chant: Reuchlin’s Reconstruction of the Modulata recitatio
		1 Introduction
		2 Reuchlin and Christian Hebraism
		3 Hebrew Cantillation as the Modulata Recitatio
		4 Cantillation and the Art of Accented Singing
			4.1 Hebrew Accents and the Reform of Liturgical Chant
			4.2 Meteg: The Rhetorical Accent
		5 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 3 Cross and Creation: Rethinking the Aesthetic Foundations of Luther’s Theology of Music
		1 Introduction
		2 The Young Luther and Aesthetics
		3 The Old Luther: Pleasure and Music as a Gift of God
		4 Music and Metaphysics
		5 Phenomenology of the Voice
		6 Compassion and Humility
		7 Creation and Cross
		Bibliography
	Chapter 4 Förståndelig and Förbättring through Liturgical Music in the Swedish Reformation: Olaus and Laurentius Petri on the Concepts of Intelligibility and Edification
		1 Introduction
		2 Intelligibility and Edification, or Improvement
		3 Arguments Concerning Adiaphora of Liturgy against Two Opposing Positions
		4 Conclusion
		Bibliography
Part 2 Religious Education through Music
	Chapter 5 Conrad Celtis’s Melopoiae (1507) and Metrical Singing in the Church
		1 Introduction
		2 Celtis and Wimpfeling: Work on Latin Metrics
		3 Metrical Hymn Melodies in the Context of Ancient and Medieval Traditions
		4 Dissemination of Metrical Hymn Settings in the Age of the Reformation
		5 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 6 From Pious Poems to Protestant Hymns: Cult, Culture and the Psalms of Clément Marot
		1 Introduction
		2 Marot’s Translations of the Psalms
			2.1 Christians and the ‘Hebrew Truth’
			2.2 The ‘Evangelicals’ and the French Court
			2.3 Musicological Aspects
		3 From Private Devotion to Public Worship
			3.1 Liturgical Songs, Protestant Hymns
			3.2 A Split in the Lineage of Marot’s Psalms
			3.3 The First Musical Settings of Marot’s Psalms
		4 Conclusion
		Bibliography (Selected)
	Chapter 7 Text, Image and Music: The Hymns of Martin Behm (1557–1622) and Religious Education in Context
		1 Introduction
		2 Martin Behm and Musical Education in Lusatia
			2.1 Behm the Preacher
			2.2 Lutheranism in Lauban
			2.3 Lutheran Musical Culture in Lusatia
		3 Behm’s Hymns
			3.1 Music and Text
			3.2 Woodcuts
			3.3 Religious and Moral Plays
		4 Conclusion
		Bibliography
	Chapter 8 Music in the Curricula of Charitable Religious Institutions in Early Modern Rome
		1 Introduction
		2 Music in the Formation of Confraternity Members
			2.1 The Confraternal Teaching of Singing in the Late Fifteenth Century
			2.2 The Practice of Confraternal Singing
		3 Music and the Teaching of Christian Doctrine
			3.1 Youth Religious Formation through Singing
			3.2 The Singing of Christian Doctrine and its Socio-ethical Implications
		4 Music in the Education of Orphans
			4.1 Arciconfraternita di S. Maria della Visitazione Degli Orphani
			4.2 The Ospedale of S. Spirito in Sassia
			4.3 The Compagnia Del Lettorato
			4.4 The Perception of Children’s Voices
		5 Music in the Education of Nuns and Girls at S. Caterina Della Rosa
			5.1 Giovanni Maria Nanino and Giovanni Luca Conforti
			5.2 Silvestro Durante
		6 Music Education of Seminarians
		7 Concluding Remarks
		Bibliography
	Chapter 9 Metrical Psalmody and Religious Education in Early Modern Scotland
		1 Introduction
		2 Establishing Metrical Psalmody
		3 Liturgical Congregational Psalmody as Pedagogy
		4 Psalmody as Pedagogy in Domestic and Private Devotion
		5 Evidencing the Impact of Metrical Psalmody
		6 Conclusion
		Bibliography
Index