Crossing confessional boundaries
Subtitle: the patronage of Italian sacred music in seventeenth-century Dresden
By: Mary E. Frandsen.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 514
Subjects: Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony, 1613-1680; Church music -- Germany -- Dresden -- 17th century; Chapels royal -- Germany -- Dresden; Dresden (Germany) -- Court and courtiers
Description: This volume examines the uneasy alliance of two confessions Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent 17th century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : the forgotten Mäzen Johann Georg II; title: The advent of the Italians, 1651-56; title: The Italianate Hofkapelle of Johann Georg II, 1656-80; title: Crossing confessional boundaries : Johann Georg II and the problem of Catholicism; title: Piety, penitence, and praise : the Dresden textual repertoire; title: Roma trapiantata : the new sacred concerto in Dresden; title: Musica pathetica : style and affect in the Dresden concerto; title: Johann Georg's vision for worship; title: Musik im Gottesdienst : the liturgical year in Dresden; title: Epilogue : Johann Georg II remembered.