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Singing Jeremiah
Robert L. Kendrick
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Description for Singing Jeremiah
Hardback. A defining moment in Catholic life in early modern Europe, Holy Week brought together the faithful to commemorate the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. This title presents the study of ritual and music. Series: Music and the Early Modern Imagination. Num Pages: 352 pages, 45 music exx., 1 b&w illus. BIC Classification: AVGD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 244 x 28. Weight in Grams: 750.
A defining moment in Catholic life in early modern Europe, Holy Week brought together the faithful to commemorate the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In this study of ritual and music, Robert L. Kendrick investigates the impact of the music used during the Paschal Triduum on European cultures during the mid-16th century, when devotional trends surrounding liturgical music were established; through the 17th century, which saw the diffusion of the repertory at the height of the Catholic Reformation; and finally into the early 18th century, when a change in aesthetics led to an eventual decline of its importance. By considering such issues as stylistic traditions, trends in scriptural exegesis, performance space, and customs of meditation and expression, Kendrick enables us to imagine the music in the places where it was performed.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Music and the Early Modern Imagination
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253011565
SKU
V9780253011565
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About Robert L. Kendrick
Robert L. Kendrick is Professor of Music at the University of Chicago. He is author of Celestial Sirens: Nuns and Music in Early Modern Milan and The Sounds of Milan, 1585–1650.
Reviews for Singing Jeremiah
This a stunning piece of scholarship centered around a specific ritual in Western society and Christianity, and the music associated with it. Highly recommended.
Choice
[A] ground-breaking and invigorating study. . . [this] study will undoubtedly keep the knowledge of these Offices alive in the minds of musicologists, and of more general readers, for a long time to come.
Early Music
This groundbreaking study brings together fascinating facts and materials, varied discussions, and a layered organization of its material in condensed, scholarly, and sophisticated language. It requires some basic knowledge of its subject on the part of its readers. The book will be a valuable addition to any academic and large public library, and constitutes a significant source for academics, scholars, theologians, and musicians interested in details of the Triduum, its ritual, and its music.
Music Reference Services Quarterly
Handsomely produced, and accompanied by useful appendixes detailing the contents, verse selections, and modal organizations of selected Holy Week cycles, Singing Jeremiah mines an obscure yet inexhaustibly rich vein of music that expressed profound sentiments of devotion and penance.
Renaissance Quarterly
Robert Kendrick has provided the interested reader with a huge amount of information, with great cultural-historical, and not least music-historical perspectives. It is an important book, which takes seriously the idea that liturgical music was also—and remains—theological, cultural, and ritual practice.
Music and Letters
Kendrick's command of the complex layers of meaning attached to the ritual and musical performance of Tenebrae cannot fail to impress. Singing Jeremiah is a significant contribution to understanding the richness of early modern Catholicism.
Church History
Kendrick's book is essential reading for anyone engaging with the sacred/secular dichotomy in early modern music and the socio-liturgical context of music.
Notes
Written in careful musical detail and with an admirable comprehension of the environment in which the music developed, Kenrick's book will be a reliable source for both musicians and liturgical scholars for many years to come.
Antiphon
Choice
[A] ground-breaking and invigorating study. . . [this] study will undoubtedly keep the knowledge of these Offices alive in the minds of musicologists, and of more general readers, for a long time to come.
Early Music
This groundbreaking study brings together fascinating facts and materials, varied discussions, and a layered organization of its material in condensed, scholarly, and sophisticated language. It requires some basic knowledge of its subject on the part of its readers. The book will be a valuable addition to any academic and large public library, and constitutes a significant source for academics, scholars, theologians, and musicians interested in details of the Triduum, its ritual, and its music.
Music Reference Services Quarterly
Handsomely produced, and accompanied by useful appendixes detailing the contents, verse selections, and modal organizations of selected Holy Week cycles, Singing Jeremiah mines an obscure yet inexhaustibly rich vein of music that expressed profound sentiments of devotion and penance.
Renaissance Quarterly
Robert Kendrick has provided the interested reader with a huge amount of information, with great cultural-historical, and not least music-historical perspectives. It is an important book, which takes seriously the idea that liturgical music was also—and remains—theological, cultural, and ritual practice.
Music and Letters
Kendrick's command of the complex layers of meaning attached to the ritual and musical performance of Tenebrae cannot fail to impress. Singing Jeremiah is a significant contribution to understanding the richness of early modern Catholicism.
Church History
Kendrick's book is essential reading for anyone engaging with the sacred/secular dichotomy in early modern music and the socio-liturgical context of music.
Notes
Written in careful musical detail and with an admirable comprehension of the environment in which the music developed, Kenrick's book will be a reliable source for both musicians and liturgical scholars for many years to come.
Antiphon