Book
Mary, music, and meditation: sacred conversations in post-Tridentine Milan
Music and the early modern imagination, Indiana University Press
2013
Abstract
Burdened by famine, the plague, and economic hardship in the 1500s, the troubled citizens of Milan, mindful of their mortality, turned toward the veneration of the Virgin Mary and the creation of evangelical groups in her name. By 1594 the diversity of these lay religious organizations reflected in microcosm the varied expressions of Marian devotion in the Italian peninsula. Using archival documents, meditation and music books, and iconographical sources, Christine Getz examines the role of music in these Marian cults and confraternities in order to better understand the Church's efforts at
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Mary, music, and meditation: sacred conversations in post-Tridentine Milan
- Creators
- Christine Getz - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Book
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press; Bloomington; Indianapolis
- Series
- Music and the early modern imagination
- ISBN
- 0253007968; 9780253007964; 9780253007872; 0253007879
- eISBN
- 0253007968; 9780253007964
- Number of pages
- 1 online resource (369 pages)
- Alternative title
- JSTOR ebooks.
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2013
- Academic Unit
- Liberal Arts and Science Admin; Music
- Record Identifier
- 9984399626602771
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