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The book explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music of the long nineteenth century. It investigates manifestations of religion in music not primarily intended for liturgical performance and assesses compositions that originated in a liturgical context but then migrated in their performance into a non-liturgical sphere.
List of contents
Contents
Introduction
Eftychia Papanikolaou and Markus Rathey
Religion, Music, and the Romantic Imagination
Chapter 1. Music for the "Cultured Despisers" of Religion: Schleiermacher on Singing in Church
and Beyond
Joyce L. Irwin
Chapter 2. The Cross and the Wanderer: From the Sacred to the Secular in the Early Nineteenth
Century
Joseph E. Morgan
Chapter 3. The Sacred Looking Glass: Imaginative Children's Music as Syncretic Nexus
Matthew Roy
Sacred and Secular Drama on the Stage
Chapter 4. Reassessing Robert Schumann's Motivations for Composing a Mass and Requiem
Sonja Wermager
Chapter 5. Spirituality and the Fugal Topos in the Secular Dramatic Works of Robert Schumann
Christopher Ruth
Chapter 6. Hieratic Iconoclasm: Liszt, Hanslick, and the Graner Festmesse
Eftychia Papanikolaou
Chapter 7. Sacred Moments in the Secular Dramatic Works of Arthur Sullivan
Matthew Hoch
Counterpoint and Chorale in Instrumental Music
Chapter 8. Redeeming Chamber Music: Experiencing Solace in Mendelssoh
About the author
Eftychia Papanikolaou is Associate Professor of Musicology at Bowling Green State University, USA. She co-edited Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall (2022). Her scholarship so far has reflected the diversity and needs of both the undergraduate and graduate population (music from the romantic period, music and the moving image, opera, dance).Markus Rathey is the Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History at Yale University and author of Theology, Music, and Modernity: Struggles for Freedom.Matthew Hoch is a Professor of Voice at Auburn University. He is the 2016 winner of the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship, awarded jointly by the Voice Foundation and NATS. Hoch serves as Associate Editor of the of the voice pedagogy column for the Journal of Singing and Editor of the “On the Voice” column in the ACDA Choral Journal.Eftychia Papanikolaou is Associate Professor of Musicology at Bowling Green State University, USA. She co-edited Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall (2022). Her scholarship so far has reflected the diversity and needs of both the undergraduate and graduate population (music from the romantic period, music and the moving image, opera, dance).Markus Rathey is the Robert S. Tangeman Professor of Music History at Yale University and author of Theology, Music, and Modernity: Struggles for Freedom.
Summary
The book explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music of the long nineteenth century. It investigates manifestations of religion in music not primarily intended for liturgical performance and assesses compositions that originated in a liturgical context but then migrated in their performance into a non-liturgical sphere.
