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This detailed study introduces a nearly lost music culture: the Viennese court of the Holy Roman Emperor Ferdinand II (1619-37). Drawing on a wide range of literature, musicological and otherwise, the book seeks to place sacred music at the Habsburg court early in the 17th century within the context of social and cultural life, showing how it was shaped by the composers, institutions and ideas of the time.

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.,. provides impressive documentation of the musical background that accompanied the confessionalization of politics at the Habsburg court during the reign of Ferdinand II... --American Historical Review<br> Saunders's work provides a clear, concise summary of many of the stylistic developments in sacred music during the early seventeenth century....This book should be a stimulus to further research. --Notes<br> This is an important and special book... Throughout Saunders proves his comprehensive knowledge of different sources and the existing scholarly literature, which are not only cited, but also placed in context and interpreted....it is to be expected that this book will be a standard reference work for musicologists specializing in the time of Ferdinand II. --Austrian History Yearbook<br>

. ..provides impressive documentation of the musical background that accompanied the confessionalization of politics at the Habsburg court during the reign of Ferdinand II... --American Historical Review Saunders's work provides a clear, concise summary of many of the stylistic developments in sacred music during the early seventeenth century....This book should be a stimulus to further research. --Notes This is an important and special book... Throughout Saunders proves his comprehensive knowledge of different sources and the existing scholarly literature, which are not only cited, but also placed in context and interpreted....it is to be expected that this book will be a standard reference work for musicologists specializing in the time of Ferdinand II. --Austrian History Yearbook

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