Singing Jeremiah - Music and Meaning in Holy Week

Robert L. Kendrick is Professor of Music at the University of Chicago. He is author of Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Music in Early Modern Milan and The Sounds of Milan, 1585¿1650.

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Terminology, Abbreviations, Texts

1. Symbolic Meanings, Sonic Penance

2. Textual Understandings, Musical Expressions

3. Devotion, Models, Circulation, 1550-1600

4. Dynastic Tenebrae

5. Static Rites, Dramatic Music

6. European Tenebrae c. 1680

7. Ad honorem Passionis: Triduum Music and Rational Piety

8. Endings and Continuities

Appendix: Tables 1-4

Notes

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Robert L. Kendrick is Professor of Music at the University of Chicago. He is author of Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Music in Early Modern Milan and The Sounds of Milan, 1585-1650.

Summary

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. This title presents the study of ritual and music.

Product details

• Authors: Robert L Kendrick, Robert L. Kendrick, Kendrick Robert L
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.05.2014
• EAN: 9780253011565
• ISBN: 978-0-253-01156-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Series: Music and the Early Modern Ima; Indiana University Press; Music and the Early Modern Ima; Music and the Early Modern Imagination
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries