Rebecca Wagner Oettinger - Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation

REBECCA WAGNER OETTINGER

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Oettinger, Rebecca Wagner.
Music as Propaganda in the German Reformation.
(St Andrews Studies in Reformation History)
1. ReformationGermany. 2. Church musicGermanyHistory
16th century. 3. Church musicLutheran Church. 4. Popular
musicGermanyHistory16th century. 5. Popular music
Religious aspects.
I. Title.
274.306

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Oettinger, Rebecca Wagner.
Music as propaganda in the German Reformation/Rebecca Wagner
Oettinger.
p. cm. (St Andrews Studies University of Wisconsin, 1999.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0-7546-0363-6 (alk. paper)
1. Church musicLutheran Church16th century. 2. Church music
Germany16th century. 3. Music, influence ofGermanyHistory16th
century. 4. Songs, GermanGermany16th centuryHistory and criticism.
5. ReformationGermany. I. Title. II. Series.
ML3168.O37 2001

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This project began as a seminar paper at the University of Wisconsin in the spring of 1996, and in the last five years it has grown far beyond my expectations. In 1999 I completed a dissertation in musicology on the role of popular music in the German Reformation, and the present volume is a revision of that study. I have benefited from the wisdom, expertise, generosity and support of a number of scholars in musicology and Reformation studies, as well as scholars in German studies and religious history. My greatest thanks go to David Crook at the University of Wisconsin. His fascinating graduate seminar on dangerous music in society caused me first to explore the issue of popular music in the Reformation, and then to abandon the rather conventional dissertation topic I had originally planned. Jeanne Swack and Lawrence Earp read earlier versions of this book, and with Charles Dill and Susan Cook, supported me as I stretched my dissertation beyond the borders of musicology. Robert Kingdon welcomed me into the circle of Reformation scholars studying with him, and introduced me to Heinz Schilling at the Humboldt-Universitt zu Berlin, to Lee Palmer Wandel, to Gerald Strauss and to Andrew Pettegree. I am grateful for the help and encouragement I have received from specialists in Reformation studies.

Andrew Pettegree and Rachel Lynch at Ashgate have helped to improve this book greatly with their suggestions and guidance. I am very thankful for the excellent editing skills of Bonnie Blackburn, who has been supportive from the early days of this project. Jessie Ann Owens kindly took me under her wing and helped me to find the best publisher for this work at the 1999 annual meeting of the American Musicological Society. This project was made possible in part by a very generous grant from the American Musicological Society, which supported a year of writing with an AMS 50 Dissertation Fellowship. The AMS also provided support for the publication of this book through the Gustave Reese Publication Endowment Fund of the American Musicological Society, for which I am grateful. Through the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, I was also able to spend a year sifting through the Liedflugschriftsammlung Meusebach at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preuischer Kulturbesitz. The staff of the Raralesesaal at the Staatsbibliothek were extremely helpful, making my research there much easier.