Music, Piety, and Political Power in 17th-Century Salzburg

Music, Piety and Political Power in 17th Century Salzburg traces the role of sacred music in the service of politics at the archbishopric of Salzburg, one of many jurisdictions that made up the Holy Roman Empire in the second half of the seventeenth century.

Kimberly Beck Hieb is associate professor of musicology at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, USA. Her 17th-century research takes up questions of religious and political representation in early modern sacred music and has been supported in part by a Fulbright Research Fellowship, the Austrian Exchange Agency, and a Eugene K. Wolf travel grant from the American Musicological Society. She is the author of a critical edition of Andreas Hofer's Ver sacrum seu flores musici (Salzburg 1677) (2021), and "Music for Martyrs: Sacred Music and the Particular Piety of Late Seventeenth-Century Salzburg" (2021).

Acknowledgements Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Sounds of "Good" Government Chapter 2 - Making Use of Materials on Hand: Sacred Music under Guidobald von Thun (r. 1654-1668) Chapter 3 - The Massive and the Individual: Sacred Music under Maximilian Gandolph (r. 1668-1687) Chapter 4 - Sacred Dramas, Music by Outsiders, and a Return to the Psalms: Sacred Music under Johann Ernst (r. 1687-1709) Conclusion: Sacred Music as Cultural, Religious, and Political Artifact Index