Sacred Music As Public Image For Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand III.

Subtitled, Representing the Counter-Reformation Monarch at the End of the Thirty Years' War. The author examines the use of sacred music by Ferdinand III as a means of diplomacy, a way of communicating with his subjects, and a means of spreading Catholicism. With an introduction, appendix, bibliography and index. Figures. Tables. Music examples.

xxi, 325 p.; 24 cm.
Cloth
Language: English
ISBN: 1409421198
ISBN13: 9781409421191
UPC: 9781409421191