Mystical Love in the German Baroque: Theology, Poetry, Music

By Isabella van Elferen

This book identifies the cultural and devotional conventions underlying expressions of mystical love in poetry and music of the German baroque. It sheds new light on the seemingly erotic overtones in settings of the Song of Songs and dialogues between Christ and the faithful soul in late 17th- and early 18th-century cantatas by Sch tz, Buxtehude, and J.S. Bach.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810861364
• ISBN13: 9780810861367
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"