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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822011103321

Autore

Kendrick Robert L

Titolo

Singing Jeremiah : music and meaning in Holy Week / / Robert L. Kendrick

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Indiana : , : Indiana University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-253-01162-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (351 p.)

Collana

Music and the early modern imagination

Disciplina

781.72/6

Soggetti

Holy Week music - Europe - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Symbolic meanings, sonic penance -- Textual understandings, musical expressions -- Devotion, models, circulation, 1550-1600 -- Dynastic Tenebrae -- Static rites, dramatic music -- European Tenebrae c.1680 -- Ad honorem Passionis : Triduum music and rational piety -- Endings and continuities.

Sommario/riassunto

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 l