Lutheran Music Culture: Ideals and Practices

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This volume presents a novel and distinct contribution to previous research on the rich Lutheran heritage of music. It builds upon a current surge of interest in the field, which resonates with a wider interest in connections between music and religion, as well as with cultural and aesthetic dimensions of faith at large. The book situates the topic in relation to recent developments within historical and cultural studies that have developed a more nuanced and positive view of the interplay between theologians and other cultural agents in the evolution of Western modernity during post Reformation processes of 'confessionalization'. It combines conceptual discussions of key terms relevant to the study of the development and significance of an Early Modern Lutheran Music Culture with theological readings of central texts on music, analytic approaches to historical repertoires and material perspectives on its dissemination. Table of Contents List of Figures Framing Lutheran Music Culture The Word of God and Music in Luther: Re-Reading Luther’s 1538 Rhau Preface “Musicam semper amavi”: What is Remarkable about Luther’s Views on Music? Did the Choir Introduce German Hymns to the Wittenberg Congregations? Liturgical Foundations from the Court of Maximilian I and the Hope of Salvation Johann Reusch’s Zehen deudscher Psalm Davids (1551) and the Circulation of German Psalm Motets in Northern Europe Luther, Mattheson, and the Joy of Music Reading Belief through Compositional Unity: J. S. Bach’s Response to a Lutheran Theology of Proportions J. S. Bach, the Fuga Contraria, and the Lutheran Concept of Umkehr “Defenders of music” as a Topos of Collective Self-Fashioning in Lutheran Writings from Early Modern Sweden Luther in Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s Hymn of Praise The “Lutheran Style”: Aesthetics, Theology and Politics in Oskar Söhngen’s Writings Beyond “Church-dividing” Differences: Music and New Ecumenical Perspectives on Justification Lutheran Music Culture – A Reflection Appendix 1: Martin Luther’s 1538 draft to the Encomion musices Appendix 2: Preface by Johannes Bugenhagen to Balthasar Resinarius: Responsorium numero octoginta de tempore, 1544 Appendix 3: Preface by Philipp Melanchthon to Johann Reusch: Zehen deudscher Psalm Davids, 1551 Index of Names