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- Gillion, Marianne
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Interconfessional Implications: Printed Plainchant in the Wake of the Reformation
- 2021
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Ingår i: Music & Letters. - : Oxford University Press. - 0027-4224 .- 1477-4631. ; 102:4, s. 657-686
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article investigates the retention, reformation, and revision of plainchant in liturgical books printed in German-speaking lands during the early Reformation. Previous scholarship often considered chant in confessional and linguistic isolation, which has obscured both its importance in Protestant worship and its connections with contemporary Catholic musical trends. Writings of reformers and their followers, including Luther, Müntzer, and Spangenberg, indicate that they valued plainchant because it provided continuity, functioned pedagogically, and increased congregational unity. However, chant was subject to modification. An examination of reformed sources connected to Allstedt, Erfurt, and Nordhausen demonstrates how plainchant was adopted and adapted to reflect shifting priorities. Analyses of modified alleluia chants in Protestant and Catholic books reveal similarities and differences in techniques of revision. The formation of new musical traditions is delineated, as well as their intertwined relationships with the musical past, present, and future. These interconfessional findings provide new perspectives on early modern chant and liturgies.
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- Lundberg, Mattias, 1976-
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The World of Sound as a Prison : Ideal and Actual Concepts of Music in the Writings of Huldrych Zwingli
- 2024
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Ingår i: Music & Letters. - Oxford : Oxford University Press. - 0027-4224 .- 1477-4631. ; 105:1, s. 1-26
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Huldrich Zwingli held a highly censorious view of music in private and public worship. It has often been noted that his stance was almost the polar opposite of that of Martin Luther. A more specific disagreement between Zwingli and Luther, however, seems to have gone largely unnoticed in the vast modern literature on music and theology in sixteenth-century reformation movements, namely that of the ontology of music as sounding, sensory object vis-à-vis music as a silently imagined and grasped (ideal) entity. A number of passages from Zwingli’s writings suggest a rather peculiar version of the distinction between body and spirit as regards aural perception in general, and music in particular. The present study scrutinizes what seems to be Zwingli’s arguments against sound and music as sensory elements in conflict with the ideal realm of the highest order of music theory.
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- Quinlan, Meghan
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Repetition as Rebirth : A Sung Epitaph for Gautier de Coinci
- 2020
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Ingår i: Music & Letters. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0027-4224 .- 1477-4631. ; 101:4, s. 623-656
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The thirteenth-century prior and poet-musician Gautier de Coinci is known for his extravagant wordplay, which relies on the recursive patterning of verbal sound. This article considers Gautier’s penchant for sonic repetition in the light of the music that frames his book of miracles, focusing on the song Por mon chief reconforter, a chanson-à-refrain written in the voice of an aging Gautier coming to terms with his imminent death. The song’s exclusion from Frederic Koenig’s standard edition of the Miracles means it has received little scholarly attention, yet its earliest source is linked with Gautier’s original exemplar. The article examines how repeated musico-poetic forms—within the stanza, between stanzas, and in the more temporally extended repetition of contrafacture—interact with notions of temporality and mortality voiced in the song’s texts and contexts, suggesting that such structures reshape the experience of time into one that is less linear, and therefore less final.
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- Tatlow, Ruth, 1956
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Bach in the World: Music, Society, and Representation in Bach's Cantatas by Markus Rathey
- 2024
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Ingår i: Music and Letters. - 0027-4224 .- 1477-4631. ; 105:1, s. 123-126
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Markus Rathey's aim in this volume is to emphasize the unity between sacred and secular in Bach’s society, and to ‘reconstruct the “social energy” the cantatas had in their original performance contexts’ (p. 9). He concludes: ‘This energy is not necessarily positive. Most of us will disagree with the concept of divinely ordained government … we cringe at the depiction of misogynistic stereotypes … and yet taking offence with them is part of the creative act of listening today’ (p. 14). The six central chapters consist of three previously published articles and three newly written. Framed by a short contextual ‘Introduction’, and an even shorter ‘Epilogue’, the reader gains a progressive understanding of the social confines within which Bach composed his non-liturgical cantatas.
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- Wallrup, Erik
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'Life as an Aesthetic Idea of Music'. Ed. by Manos Perrakis
- 2020
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Ingår i: Music & Letters. - : Oxford University Press. - 0027-4224 .- 1477-4631. ; 101:1, s. 160-163
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Recension (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Review of Life as an Aesthetic Idea of Music. Ed. by Manos Perrakis. Pp. 192. Studien zur Wertungsforschung, 61. (Universal Edition, Vienna, London, New York, 2019. €24.99. ISBN 978-3-7024-7621–2.)
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