Hearing Faith

Music as Theology in the Spanish Empire
Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41497-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 194, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 513 g

Reihe: Studies in the History of Christian Traditions

Hearing Faith explores the ways Roman Catholics in the seventeenth-century Spanish Empire used music to connect faith and hearing. From the Royal Chapel in Madrid to Puebla Cathedral in colonial Mexico, communities celebrated Christmas and other feasts with villancicos, a widespread genre of vernacular poetry and devotional music. A large proportion of villancico texts directly address the nature of hearing and the power of music to connect people to God. By interpreting complex and fascinating examples of “music about music” in the context of contemporary theological writing, the book shows how Spanish Catholics embodied their beliefs about music, through music itself. Listening closely to these previously undiscovered and overlooked archival sources reveals how Spanish subjects listened and why.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cashner, Andrew A

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikwissenschaft Allgemein Musiktheorie, Musikästhetik, Kompositionslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations and Tables

Part 1 Listening for Faith

1 Villancicos as Musical Theology

1 Singing about Singing

2 Paying Attention to Villancicos

3 Music about Music in the Villancico Genre

4 Theological Listening in the Neoplatonic Tradition

2 Making Faith Appeal to Hearing

1 “The Sense Most Easily Deceived”

2 Well-Tempered Hearing

3 Accommodating and Training the Ear

4 Impaired Hearers, Incompetent Teachers: “Villancicos of the Deaf”

5 Failures of Faithful Hearing

Part 2 Listening for Unhearable Music

3 Christ as Singer and Song (Puebla, 1657)

1 “Voices of the Chapel Choir” and the “Unspeaking Word”

2 Music about Music in the Voices of Puebla’s Chapel Choir

3 Devotion to Christ as Singer and Song

4 Establishing a Pedigree in a Lineage of Metamusical Composition

5 “All Who Heard It Were Amazed”

4 Heavenly Dissonance (Montserrat, 1660s)

1 Cererols and the Boys’ School Choir of Montserrat

2 The “New Consonance”

3 Worldly and Heavenly Music

4 Genealogies of Heavenly Music

5 The Problem of Perfection

5 Offering and Imitation (Zaragoza, 1650–1700)

1 “Let Voices Ascend to Heaven”: From Bruna to Ambiela

2 Christ as a Vihuela (Cáseda)

3 Conclusions

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Andrew A. Cashner, PhD (2015, University of Chicago), is an assistant professor of music at the University of Rochester. Recipient of the American Musicological Society’s 2015 Alfred Einstein Award, he published a critical edition of Villancicos about Music in 2017.