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- Title
Music, Persecution and the Freedom of the Soul: Songs of Transcendence in Marnix's Het Boeck der Psalmen Dauids (1580).
- Authors
Kim, Hyun-Ah
- Abstract
This article explores how metrical psalmody as a form of musical poetry was utilised to relieve mental, physical and emotional turmoil which early-modern religious prisoners and refugees underwent, focussing on Philips van Marnix's Boeck der Psalmens Dauids (1580). By situating Marnix's psalm versification within the context of Renaissance Biblical humanism where music and poetry are inseparable, the article seeks to determine the place of Marnix in the history of religious poetics contributing to early Protestant devotional practices, in which the psalmody served as the songs of transcendence, freeing the soul from persecution and, ultimately, from the death of the body.
- Subjects
MUSIC; LIBERTY; RENAISSANCE; HUMANISM; SINGING
- Publication
Kerk en Theologie, 2023, Vol 74, Issue 2, p193
- ISSN
0165-2346
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5117/KT2023.2.007.KIM