Oxford University Press, Incorporated. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Oxford University Press, Incorporated ISBN 0195154398 9780195154399 [US]

ISBN10: 0195154398, ISBN13: 9780195154399, [publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR] Hardcover Zustand: Sehr gut - Gepflegter, sauberer Zustand. | Seiten: 366 | Sprache: Englisch
[Trebbin, Germany] [Publication Year: 2004]

Hardback. New. How important was music to Martin Luther? Drawing on hundreds of liturgical documents, contemporary accounts of services, books on church music, and other sources, Joseph Herl gives readers a vivid sense of what it would have been like to attend a Lutheran church from the 16th to the18th century. ISBN 0195154398 9780195154399 [GB]

ISBN10: 0195154398, ISBN13: 9780195154399, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Drawing on hundreds of liturgical documents, contemporary accounts of services, books on church music, and other sources, Joseph Herl rewrites the history of music and congregational song in German Lutheran churches from the Reformation to 1800. Includes translations of important documents and outlines of 172 Lutheran mass orders. How important was music to Martin Luther? Drawing on hundreds of liturgical documents, contemporary accounts of services, books on church music, and other sources, Joseph Herl rewrites the history of music and congregational song in German Lutheran churches. Herl traces the path of music and congregational song in the Lutheran church from the Reformation to 1800, to show how it acquired its reputation as the "singing church." In the centuries after its founding, in a debate that was to have a strong impact on Johann Sebastian Bach and his contemporaries, the Lutheran church was torn over a new style of church music that many found more entertaining than devotional. By the end of the eighteenth century, Lutherans were trying to hold their own against a new secularism, and many members of the clergy favored wholesale revision or even abandonment of the historic liturgy in order to make worship more relevant in contemporary society. Herl paints a vivid picture of these developments, using as a backdrop the ...