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Singing the Resurrection

Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe. The New Cultural History of Music Series

By (author) Erin Lambert
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, New York, United States
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Published: 30th Nov 2017
Dimensions: w 164mm h 239mm d 20mm
Weight: 490g
ISBN-10: 019066164X
ISBN-13: 9780190661649
Barcode No: 9780190661649
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Singing the Resurrection brings music to the foreground of Reformation studies, as author Erin Lambert explores song as a primary mode for the expression of belief among ordinary Europeans in the sixteenth century, for the embodiment of individual piety, and the creation of new communities of belief. Together, resurrection and song reveal how sixteenth-century Christians-from learned theologians to ordinary artisans, and Anabaptist martyrs to Reformed Christians facing exile-defined belief not merely as an assertion or affirmation but as a continuous, living practice. Thus these voices, raised in song, tell a story of the Reformation that reaches far beyond the transformation from one community of faith to many. With case studies drawn from each of the major confessions of the Reformation-Lutheran, Anabaptist, Reformed, and Catholic-Singing the Resurrection reveals sixteenth-century belief in its full complexity.

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Lamberts approach is ambitious and thought-provoking, and the examination of one theological concept certainly has potential to yield new insight. * Matthew Laube, Early Music History * Singing the Resurrection is a generous-spirited book; the author handles the chosen material with respect and sensitivity throughout, in a work of sure-fotted scholarship that enriches our sense of the soundscape of the Reformation and of the audibility of belief. * Michael O'Connor, Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme * Lambert presents a clear picture of how the Reformation created the opportunity for all churches to re-evaluate what they believed and how they would worship ... Her examples and stories inform the narrative, creating a scholarly informative, and entertaining book. * Nancy Saultz Radloff, Anglican and Episcopal History * The book does not intend to offer close musical readings of works or sources, but rather to help nonspecialist readers learn how music was integrated with texts, images, beliefs, and the actions of believers across the fragmented religious landscape of the Reformation... Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe offers a challenge to musicologists and historians: tell the stories of history using all the threads of culture.
Integrating music into this story draws the people of the Reformation and their convictions more vividly into our own understanding of their worlds. * Jennifer S. Thomas, Notes, the Journal of the Music Library Association *