Martin Luther and the Arts

Martin Luther and the Arts

Music, Images, and Drama to Promote the Reformation

Loewe, Andreas; Firth, Katherine

Brill

11/2022

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Inglês

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Acknowledgements


List of Illustrations


Abbreviations





Introduction


?1?Structure and Scope of This Book





1 Luther's Theory of Music


?1?Music among the Seven Liberal Arts


?2?Sources for Luther's Theory of Music


?3?Luther's Theory of Music


?4?The Origins of Music


?5?Music as a 'Habitus' and Model of Goodness and Praise





2 Hymns and Sacred Songs


?1?Singing, Preaching, and Praising God through Music


?2?Lutherans, Music, and the Reformation


?3?Lutheran Music in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century


?4?Lutheran 'Kantoreien' as Instruments of Reform





3 Martin Luther's 'Mighty Fortress'


?1?Genesis and Dissemination


?2?Reception from 1600 to 1945


?3?A Hymn of Confidence in God's Eternal Salvation





4 Martin Luther on Images


?1?Radical Reforms in Wittenberg


?2?Luther's Understanding of Images


?3?Reading 'Law and Grace': A Composite 'Merkbild' (Image of Remembrance)





5 Teaching the Reformation to Read Images of Hate


?1?Luther's Adversarial Images


?2?Later Reception of Luther's Anti-Semitic Polemic





6 Luther and Drama


?1?Martin Luther and Popular Pre-Reformation Drama


?2?Luther's Objections to Popular Drama and Ceremonies


?3?Lutheran Biblical Drama


?4?Joachim Greff and Popular Drama


?5?Dramatising the Bible


?6?Towards a Protestant Dramatisation of the Passion


?7?Performing the Passion and Resurrection


?8?In Defence of Passion Drama


?9?A Matter of Church Polity





Conclusion


Appendix 1: Luther's Prefaces to the 'Symphoniae Iucundae'


Appendix 2: Comparing 'Law and Grace' (1529-1550)


Bibliography


Index