Music as Cultural Mission : Explorations of Jesuit Practices in Italy and North America.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: The Jesuits and Music -- Part I: The Jesuit Cultural Mission in Early Modern Italy -- Introduction: Jesuit Institutions in Two Urban Centers: Milan and Naples -- Chapter 1: Jesuit Music in Eighteenth-Century Italy: North versus South -- Chapter 2: "The music must serve the poetry": The Jesuit Oratorio in Eighteenth-Century Milan -- Chapter 3: Andrea Perrucci's Dell'arte rappresentativa and the Influence of Jesuit Theater -- Chapter 4: The Musical and Theatrical Activities of the Jesuits in the Kingdom of Naples: Accounts from the Gazzetta di Napoli (1675-1768) -- Chapter 5: Sacred Itineraries in Early Eighteenth-Century Naples and the Musical Activities of the Gesù Nuovo -- Chapter 6: Musical Events and Spectacles in the Collegio of Nobles -- Chapter 7: The Society of Jesus and Neapolitan Musical Culture in the Early Eighteenth Century -- Part II: The Jesuit Cultural Mission in North America -- Introduction: Creating Models of Implementation for the Cultural Mission: The Jesuits as Pedagogues, Scholars, and Missionaries of Music -- Chapter 8: Adopting Rituals: The Jesuits and the Huron Noël, "Jesous Ahatonnia" -- Chapter 9: A Jesuit University in the New World: Music's Cultural Mission at Georgetown University (1789-1930) -- Chapter 10: Bridging the Distance: Jesuit Performance Transposed to a Contemporary Key -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index.

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