Church Music and Protestantism in Post - Reformation England: Discourses, Sites and Identities (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)

by JonathanP.Willis (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2010

  $151.86

  Hearing was of vital importance in the early modern period, and music was one of the most prominent, powerful and emotive elements of religious worship. This book begins with an exploration of the classical and religious discourses which underpinned sixteenth-century understandings of music, and its use in religious worship.