Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Nicholas Terpstra -- Part 1 -- Chapter 2 The ‘Sensoryscape’ of the Good Friday Procession in Early Modern Venetian Bergamo / Emanuela Vai -- Chapter 3 Musical Interactions at the Confraternity of Our Lady of the Rosary in Antwerp in the Seventeenth Century / Ana López Suero -- Chapter 4 Sound and Confraternal Piety in Early Modern Leuven / Henry Drummond -- Chapter 5 Music and Students in the Academy and Confraternity of St. Thomas Aquinas in Barcelona (1588) / Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita -- Chapter 6 The Sonic and Ceremonial Contribution of the Confraternity of Sant Jordi and the Centenar de la Ploma to Celebratory Processions in Valencia / Ferran Escrivà-Llorca -- Part 2 -- Chapter 7 Corporations or Confraternities? Strategies Adopted by Artisan Groups in Response to Pressures Arising from the Catholic Reformation / Noel O’Regan -- Chapter 8 Confraternities and Music on the Eve of the Reformation: Early-Tudor Boston / Magnus Williamson -- Chapter 9 Who was Listening to Oratorio? Lay Confraternities and Patrician Music in Early Modern Italy / Xavier Torres -- Chapter 10 Mustering Troops and Teaching Counterpoint: The Musical Incursions of a Central European Redemption Confraternity / Erika Supria Honisch -- Chapter 11 Confraternities, Congregations and Aural Culture in Counter-Reformation Germany / Alexander Fisher -- Part 3 -- Chapter 12 Music and Noise: The Sounds of a Youth Confraternity in Renaissance Florence / Konrad Eisenbichler -- Chapter 13 ‘In parole’ and ‘in canto’: The Songs and Prayers of the Disciplinati in Early Modern Milan / Daniele V. Filippi -- Chapter 14 Performing Poetry at Rouen’s Puy of the Immaculate Conception / Dylan Reid -- Chapter 15 Black Dancers and Musicians Performing Afro-Christian Identity in Early Modern Sources / Elisa Lessa -- Chapter 16 Devotional Collective Singing and the Construction of Christian Indigenous Communities: The Hospital Confraternities of the Concepción in Colonial Michoacán / Antonio Ruiz Caballero -- Part 4 -- Chapter 17 Digital Cartography of the Confraternities of Granada and Their Impact on the Early Modern Urban Soundworld / Juan Ruiz Jiménez -- Chapter 18 Mapping Post-Tridentine Confraternities and Processions in Sixteenth-Century Tarragona / Sergi González González -- Chapter 19 Burying the Bones: Mapping the Sounds and Spaces of the Confraternity of the Verge Maria dels Desamparats in Early Modern Barcelona / Tess Knighton -- Back Matter -- Index Nominum.

Listening to Confraternities offers new perspectives on the contribution of guild and devotional confraternities to the urban phonosphere based on original research and an interdisciplinary approach. Historians of art, architecture, culture, sound, music and the senses consider the ways in which, through their devotional practices, confraternities acted as patrons of music, created their identity through sound and were involved in the everyday musical experience of major cities in early modern Europe. Confraternities have been studied from many different angles, but only rarely as acoustic communities that communicated through sound and whose musical activities delimited the urban spaces in which they were active. Contributors: Nicholas Terpstra, Emanuela Vai, Ana López Suero, Henry Drummond, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, Ferrán Escrivà-Llorca, Noel O’Regan, Magnus Williamson, Xavier Torres Sans, Erika Honisch, Alexander Fisher, Konrad Eisenbichler, Daniele Filippi, Dylan Reid, Elisa Lessa, Antonio Ruiz Caballero, Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Sergi González González, and Tess Knighton.

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