Foretastes of Heaven in Lutheran Church Music Tradition : Johann Mattheson and Christoph Raupach on Music in Time and Eternity.

Foretastes Of Heaven In Lutheran Church Music Tradition -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Series Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Part I Christoph Raupach, Deutliche Beweis-Gründe, 1717 Edited by Johann Mattheson -- Preface by Johann Mattheson -- Chapter 1. Concerning the Commands of God that Deal with Church Music, Vocal as well as Instrumental -- Chapter 2. Of the Examples of Jews and Christians -- Chapter 3. Concerning the Powerful Usefulness of the Whole of Church Music and also Concerning its Necessity -- Chapter 4. Concerning the Powerful Usefulness of Music in Alleviating and Sweetening other Daily Affairs -- Chapter 5. Of the Various Powerful Effects of Music on the Hearts and Minds of People. -- Chapter 6. Of the Use of Music in Bodily Illness -- Chapter 7. Of the Use of Church Music by Which One Experiences a Foretaste of Heavenly Life -- Additional Comments -- Part I Notes -- Part II Johann Mattheson, Behauptung der himmlischen Musik, 1747 -- [Introductory Remarks] -- Section 1. Investigation of Heavenly Music According to Purified Reason -- Section 2. Investigation of Heavenly Music According to Doctrines of the Church and its Teachers -- Section 3. Investigation of Heavenly Music According to Holy Scripture Itself -- Part II Notes -- Appendix Mizler's Comments on Ammon's Gründlicher Beweis (1746) -- Index (Names and subjects) -- About the Author.

In this current work, Foretastes of Heavenly Music: Johann Mattheson and Christoph Raupach on Music in Time and Eternity, Irwin provides translations and commentary for two eighteenth-century texts that illuminate the musico-theological foundation underlying the work of Lutheran composers such as Bach and Telemann.

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