Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in Reformation Europe

241 Pages·2017·22.424 MB·English

by  Erin Lambert

Singing the Resurrection
Series Editor Jane F. Fulcher,
Series Board
Members: Celia Applegate
Philip Bohlman
Kate van Orden
Michael P. Steinberg
Enlightenment Orpheus: The Power of Music in Other Worlds
Vanessa Agnew
Voice Lessons: French Mélodie in the Belle Epoque
Katherine Bergeron
Songs, Scribes, and Societies: The History and Reception of the Loire
Valley Chansonniers
Jane Alden
Harmony and Discord: Music and the Transformation of Russian
Cultural Life
Lynn M. Sargeant
Musical Renderings of the Philippine Nation
Christi- Anne Castro
The Sense of Sound: Musical Meaning in France, 1260–1 330
Emma Dillon
Staging the French Revolution: Cultural Politics and the Paris Opera,
1789– 1794
Mark Darlow
Music, Piety, and Propaganda: The Soundscapes of Counter- Reformation
Bavaria
Alexander J. Fisher
The Politics of Appropriation: German Romantic Music and the Ancient
Greek Legacy
Jason Geary
Defining Deutschtum: Political Ideology, German Identity, and Music-
Critical Discourse in Liberal Vienna
David Brodbeck
Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in
Sixteenth- Century Europe
Kate van Orden
Singing the Resurrection: Body, Community, and Belief in
Reformation Europe
Erin Lambert
Singing the 
Resurrection
Body, Community, Erin Lambert
and Belief in
Reformation Europe
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Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Lambert, Erin (Erin M.)
Title: Singing the resurrection : body, community, and belief in reformation Europe / Erin Lambert.
Description: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2018] | Series: New cultural history of music |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017008884 | ISBN 9780190661649 (cloth : alk. paper) |
ISBN 9780190661670 (oxford scholarship online)
Subjects: LCSH: Church music— Europe— 16th century. | Church music—P rotestant churches. |
Music— Social aspects—E urope— History— 16th century. | Reformation. | Resurrection.
Classification: LCC ML3120.2 .L36 2017 | DDC 781.71/4 2009031— dc23
LC record available at https://l ccn.loc.gov/ 2017008884
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Music Examples ix
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1
1 The Resurrection of the Body and the Life
Everlasting: Medieval Christianity 23
2 Written in the Heart: Lutherans 47
3 Walking in the Resurrection: Anabaptists 85
4 Everywhere in Our Sight: The Reformed 119
5 Perpetual Light: Catholics 147
Conclusion 181
Bibliography 187
Index 217

List of Figures
I.1 Michelangelo, Last Judgment, detail: resurrection
of the dead 16
1.1 Last Judgment, Church of St. Lorenz, Nuremberg 24
1.2 Nuremberg, Hartmann Schedel, Liber chronicarum 27
1.3 Choir of St. Lorenz Church, Nuremberg 32
1.4 Requiem Mass, Geese Book 38
2.1 [Nicolaus Herman], Ein Geistlich liede/ von der Aufferstehung
der Todten/ und dem Ewigen Leben/ auß dem 15. Cap. der
1. Epistel Pauli/ an die Corinther, title page 49
2.2 Das Liedt Geystlich/ Jch stundt an einem morgen/ Heimlich
an einem ort, title page 57
2.3 Deathbed scene, Ars moriendi 58
2.4 Der segen des starcken Poppen/ dardurch er selig ist worden.
In dem Brieff thon des Regenpogen, title page 60
2.5 Drey schöne lieder/ vom Todt und sterben. Das Erst/ mag ich
dem Todt nich widerstan, title page 64
3.1 Execution of Weynken Claes, Ein wunderliche geschycht
newlich geschehen in dem Hag, title page 87
5.1 Coffin of Emperor Ferdinand I 148
5.2 Riderless horse, Parentalia alia divo Ferdinando 158
5.3 Pallbearers for Ferdinand I, Parentalia alia divo Ferdinando 158
5.4 Castrum doloris, Parentalia alia divo Ferdinando 159

List of Music Examples
2.1 “Ich stund an einem morgen” 62
2.2 Nicolaus Herman, “Sanct Paulus die Corinthier” 74
3.1 “De Heer moet zijn ghepresen” 102
3.2 Anna Jans, “Ick hoore de Basuyne blasen” 114
4.1 Jan Utenhove, “Myn siele looft den Heere dyn” 121
5.1 Johannes de Cleve, “Austra Danubii rapido prosperrima
fluxu,” mm. 67– 81 175