Lauda

Wilson, Blake

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“…104 Most notably, it was in their adaptation of the 'lauda' tradition, the principal genre of non-liturgical religious song in late medieval Italy, that 'assumed a life of its own' after Trent when the priests used music in the teaching of Christian doctrine. 105 Extremely influential in this regard was Diego Ledesma's Modo per insegnar of 1573, the first known work of what later became a long list of catechetical manuals that dealt explicitly with singing the catechism. 106 Although the way that priests used music to evangelise the laity on the continent and in the New World has recently been widely acknowledged by scholars, how this was manifested in England has so far remained unexplored.…”

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Music and Catholic culture in post-Reformation Lancashire: piety, protest, and conversion

Murphy

2015

Br. Cathol. Hist.

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This essay adds to our existing understanding of what it meant to be a member of the English Catholic community during the late Elizabeth and early Stuart period by exploring Catholic musical culture in Lancashire. This was a uniquely Catholic village, which, like the majority of villages, towns and cities in early modern England, was filled with the singing of ballads. Ballads have almost exclusively been treated in scholarship as a ‘Protestant’ phenomenon and the ‘godly ballad’ associated with the very fabric of a distinctively Protestant Elizabethan and Stuart entertainment culture. By investigating the songs and ballads in two manuscript collections from the Catholic network surrounding the Blundell family this essay will show how Catholics both composed and ‘converted’ existing ballads to voice social, devotional, and political concerns. The ballads performed in Little Crosby highlight a vibrant Catholic community, where musical expression was fundamental. Performance widened the parochial religious divide, whilst enhancing Catholic integration. This essay uncovers the way Catholics used music to voice religious and exhort protest as much as prayer. Finally, by investigating the tunes and melodies preserved in the manuscripts, I demonstrate how priests serving this network used ballads as part of their missionary strategy.

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Music and Catholic culture in post-Reformation Lancashire: piety, protest, and conversion

Murphy

2015

Br. Cathol. Hist.

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Lauda

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Music and Catholic culture in post-Reformation Lancashire: piety, protest, and conversion

Music and Catholic culture in post-Reformation Lancashire: piety, protest, and conversion

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