Listening to Early Modern Catholicism: Perspectives from Musicology

How did Catholicism sound in the early modern period? What kinds of sonic cultures developed within the diverse and dynamic matrix of early modern Catholicism? And what do we learn about early modern Catholicism by attending to its sonic manifestations? Editors Daniele V. Filippi and Michael Noone have brought together a variety of studies -- ranging from processional culture in Bavaria to Roman confraternities, and catechetical praxis in popular missions -- that share an emphasis on the many and varied modalities and meanings of sonic experience in early modern Catholic life.

Audio samples illustrating selected chapters are available at the following address: https: //doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5311099.

Contributors are: Egberto Bermúdez, Jane A. Bernstein, Xavier Bisaro, Andrew Cichy, Daniele V. Filippi, Alexander J. Fisher, Marco Gozzi, Robert L. Kendrick, Tess Knighton, Ignazio Macchiarella, Margaret Murata, John W. O’Malley, S.J., Noel O’Regan, Anne Piéjus, and Colleen Reardon.

Daniele V. Filippi, Ph.D. (Pavia/Cremona, 2004) is a Research Fellow at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland). Among his publications are Selva armonica: La musica spirituale a Roma tra Cinque e Seicento (2008) and Tomás Luis de Victoria (2008).

Michael Noone, Ph.D. (King’s College, Cambridge, 1990) is Professor and Chair of Music at Boston College. His publications include Music and Musicians in the Escorial Liturgy under the Habsburgs, 1563-1700 (1998) and Códice 25 de la catedral de Toledo (2003).