Sacred music as public image for Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III : representing the counter-reformation monarch at the end of the Thirty Years' War
Ferdinand III played a crucial role both in helping to end the Thirty Years' War and in reestablishing Habsburg sovereignty within his hereditary lands. Ferdinand's accomplishments came not through diplomacy or strong leadership but through a skillful manipulation of the arts. Drawing upon recent methodological approaches to the representation of other early modern monarchs as well as upon the theory of confessionalization, Andrew Weaver places the sacred vocal music composed by imperial musicians into the rich cultural, political, and religious contexts of mid-seventeenth-century Central Euro
History
1 online resource (xxi, 325 pages)
9781409421207, 9781283367592, 1409421201, 1283367599
764573821
Cover; Contents; List of Tables; List of Music Examples; List of Abbreviations; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I: Setting the Stage; 1 Ferdinand III's Public Image and the Thirty Years' War; 4 The Politics of Printing: The Print Program of Giovanni Felice Sances; Part III: Music as Representation; 5 Musical Portraiture: Representations of the Emperor in Sound; 6 Mirrors and Models: Piety and Spirituality in the Service of the Crown; 7 Maria Patrona Ferdinandi (et Austriae): Ferdinand III's Marian Devotion as Public Image