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Investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600.The five-movement polyphonic Mass Ordinary emerged from the cultural and liturgical practices of medieval Roman Catholicism and became the pre-eminent large-scale musical genre of early modern Europe. By the end of the sixteenth century, the polyphonic mass remained a core musical genre among Catholics despite gaining widespread popularity within a new institution fundamentally opposed to the Catholic Church and best known for its cultivation of vernacular liturgical music: the Lutheran church. This book investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600.Through careful source analysis, this study presents examples of polyphonic masses composed in both Lutheran and Catholic contexts that contradict the conventional conception of the Mass Ordinary as a fixed five-movement cycle with unaltered Latin te

The Polyphonic Mass in Early Lutheran Central Europe

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Investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600.The five-movement polyphonic Mass... Read more

    Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
    Publication Date: 9/24/2024
    ISBN13: 9781783277926, 978-1783277926
    ISBN10: 1783277920

    Non Fiction , Education

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    Investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600.The five-movement polyphonic Mass Ordinary emerged from the cultural and liturgical practices of medieval Roman Catholicism and became the pre-eminent large-scale musical genre of early modern Europe. By the end of the sixteenth century, the polyphonic mass remained a core musical genre among Catholics despite gaining widespread popularity within a new institution fundamentally opposed to the Catholic Church and best known for its cultivation of vernacular liturgical music: the Lutheran church. This book investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600.Through careful source analysis, this study presents examples of polyphonic masses composed in both Lutheran and Catholic contexts that contradict the conventional conception of the Mass Ordinary as a fixed five-movement cycle with unaltered Latin te

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