Mary, Music, and Meditation : Sacred Conversations in Post-Tridentine Milan Hardback
by Christine Getz
Part of the Music and the Early Modern Imagination series
Hardback
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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 using music to evangelize outside the confines of court and cathedral through its most popular saint.
Getz reveals how the private music making within these cults, particularly among women, became the primary mode through which the Catholic Church propagated its ideals of femininity and motherhood.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 19 b&w illus., 15 music exx.
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:08/07/2013
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- ISBN:9780253007872
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:360 pages, 19 b&w illus., 15 music exx.
- Publisher:Indiana University Press
- Publication Date:08/07/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9780253007872
