Music and Sacred Architecture
Edited by Dr. Tobias C. Weißmann and Prof. Dr. Klaus Pietschmann
The series focuses on the complex interrelation of music and sacred architecture from late antiquity to the early modern period from an interdisciplinary perspective. To what extent did composers and performers react to the architectural and acoustic characteristics of sacred spaces? In what ways did architects consider musical issues in designing and constructing new buildings? What role did liturgical regulations and innovations play in the relationship between rite, sound and space? And how were the multisensory performances experienced and perceived by the faithful? The series combines questions and expertise from musicology, architectural and art history, (archaeo-)acoustic, religious studies, anthropology and sensory studies.