Singing Jeremiah
Subtitle: music and meaning in Holy Week
By: Robert L. Kendrick
Series: Music and the early modern imagination; Music and the early modern imagination
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Bloomington; Indianapolis
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
ISBN-13: 9780253011565; 9780253011626
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Osterliturgie; History and criticism; Holy Week music; Katholische Kirche; Kirchenmusik
Description: A defining moment in Catholic life in early modern Europe, Holy Week brought together the faithful to commemorate the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In this study of ritual and music, Robert L. Kendrick investigates the impact of the music used during the Paschal Triduum on European cultures during the mid-16th century, when devotional trends surrounding liturgical music were established; through the 17th century, which saw the diffusion of the repertory at the height of the Catholic Reformation; and finally into the early 18th century, when a change in aesthetics led to an eventual decline of its importance. By considering such issues as stylistic traditions, trends in scriptural exegesis, performance space, and customs of meditation and expression, Kendrick enables us to imagine the music in the places where it was performed [Publisher description].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-324) and index.
Table of contents: title: Symbolic meanings, sonic penance; title: Textual understandings, musical expressions; title: Devotion, models, circulation, 1550-1600; title: Dynastic Tenebrae; title: Static rites, dramatic music; title: European Tenebrae c.1680; title: Ad honorem Passionis : Triduum music and rational piety; title: Endings and continuities.