Mary, Music, and Meditation Sacred Conversations in Post-Tridentine Milan

Name: Mary, Music, and Meditation Sacred Conversations in Post-Tridentine Milan
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ISBN: 9780253007872

ISBN-10: 0253007879

ISBN-13: 9780253007872

Edition: 2013

Authors: Christine Getz

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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.…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 7/8/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 360
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.342
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Marian Devotion and Meditation in Post-Tridentine Milan



Venerating the Veil: The Madonna of Miracles at Santa Maria presso San Celso



The Art of Lamenting: The Cult of the Madonna Addolorata at Santa Maria dei Servi



Singing Before a Madonna on the Pilaster: The Society of the Ave Maria in Duomo



Invoking the Mulier Fortis: The Confraternity of the Rosary



Clothed in the Sun and Standing on the Moon: Meditating Motherhood in the Cult of the Madonna del Parto


Epilogue: The Case of Santa Maria Segreta



Documents



Pay Records for the Singers of the Ave Maria in Duomo



Contents of Selected Collections by Milanese Composers



Musical Examples


Notes


Bibliography


Index