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The sacred–secular distinction in music during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in Austria and Bavaria

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23/06/2015
Author
Mayr, Christoph David
Supervisor
Brown, David
Allen, Roger
Keywords
Sacred-secular distinction
Music
Nineteenth century
Bruckner
Church music
Secular music
Sacred music
Cecilianism
Concert
Joseph II
Josephinism
Cecilian movement
Austria
Bavaria
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This thesis explores the sacred–secular distinction in the musical life of Austria and Bavaria during the eighteenth and nineteenth century with particular focus on its legitimacy and feasibility. It examines the attempts made by Joseph II of Austria to separate sacred and secular sphere by banning secular music from the church and finds them to have failed. Joseph’s endeavours are compared to those of the Cecilian Movement, which, although similar in their aim, are found to be motivated very differently, yet equally unsuccessful. A study of the rise of the public concert and choral societies points towards new loci for secular music as well as the spiritual experience of music. Finally Anton Bruckner is discussed as an example for filling old and new loci with a successful synthesis of sacred and secular, both in his lived life and his musical composition. Bringing sacred and secular together conforms to the natural state of Christian life in the world and bears the potential for mutual benefit which outweighs the presumed advantages of distinct lines of separation.
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Thesis, MPhil Master of Philosophy
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/6924

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