Author: Frandsen, Mary E.
Title: Crossing Confessional Boundaries : The Patronage of Italian Sacred Music in Seventeenth-Century Dresden
Description: Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiv,514 pp.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents : Prologue : the forgotten Mäzen Johann Georg II -- The advent of the Italians, 1651-56 -- The Italianate Hofkapelle of Johann Georg II, 1656-80 -- Johann Georg II and the problem of Catholicism -- Piety, penitence, and praise : the Dresden textual repertoire -- Roma trapiantata : the new sacred concerto in Dresden -- Musica pathetica : style and affect in the Dresden concerto -- Johann Georg’s vision for worship -- Musik im Gottesdienst : the liturgical year at the Dresden court -- Epilogue : Johann Georg II remembered. [" This book is an examination of the uneasy alliance of two confessions, Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent seventeenth-century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars" - Publisher's description].

Keywords: German Musical History, Seventeenth-Century, Italian, Sacred Music, Patronage, Dresden Germany, Johann Georg II, Saxony, Church Musicology, Chapels Royal