The Singing of the Strasbourg Protestants, 1523-1541

Daniel Trocme-Latter

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9781472432063
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781317016038
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Early Modern History
• Index: History

This book explores the part played by music, especially group singing, in the Protestant reforms in Strasbourg. It considers both ecclesiastical and 'popular' songs in the city, how both genres fitted into people's lives during this time of strife and how the provision and dissemination of music affected the new ecclesiastical arrangement.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Tables and Music Examples
• Notes on Style and Language
• List of Abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 The Church and the ‘Wonderful Art’ of Music
• 2 A Bolishing the Mass
• 3 The Move Towards Conformity
• 4 Song Texts and their Messages
• 5 The 1541 Gesangbuch and Strasbourg’s External Influence
• Conclusions
• Appendix A: List of Liturgical Orders (In German) and Books of Sacred Music (in German and Latin), Strasbourg, 1524–1541
• Appendix B: Wolfgang Köpfel’s First Preface to the Strasbourg Liturgical Orders
• Appendix C: Joannes Dulcis’s ‘Strasbourg Cite Dempire’ (C. 1526) in French and German, From Manuscript 1 AST 166, 5.2, fols 85[sup(v)] –87[sup(r)]
• Appendix D: A Selection of German Church Songs in Strasbourg not Directly from the Bible, 1524–1540
• Appendix E: Polemical Songs about Religion, Strasbourg, 1520–1540
• Appendix F: A Selection of Polemical Song Texts from Strasbourg Relating to the Reformation
• Appendix G: Excerpt from Wolfgang Capito’s Von Drey StraßBurger Pfaffen (Strasbourg: Köpfel, 1525)
• Appendix H: Martin Bucer’s Preface to the Gesangbuch (Strasbourg: Köpfel and Messerschmidt, 1541)
• Bibliography
• Index