- The “First Fathers” of the Society of Jesus
- Jesuit Organization and Legislation: Development and Implementation of a Normative Framework
- Jesuit Letters
- Spiritual Exercises: Obedience, Conscience, Conquest
- Jesuit Interior Indias: Confession and Mapping of the Soul
- Financing Jesuit Missions
- Rise, Character, and Development of Jesuit Education: Teaching the World
- Elites and the Constitution of Jesuit Identity
- Political Theories and Jesuit Politics
- Jesuit Accommodation, Dissimulation, Mental Reservation
- Jesuit Missions between the Papacy and the Iberian Crowns
- Jesuits, <i>Conversos</i>, and <i>Alumbrados</i> in the Iberian World
- The Jesuit English Mission
- Jesuits in the Orthodox World
- Jesuits and Islam in Early Modern Europe
- Jesuit Missionaries and Missions in the Iberian Colonial World
- The Jesuits in Asia under the Portuguese <i>Padroado</i>: India, China, and Japan (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)
- Jesuit Involvement in Africa, 1548–2017
- Jesuit Visual Culture in a Machine Age
- Missionary Art and Architecture of the Society of Jesus between China and Brazil
- Jesuit Illustrated Books
- <i>Latinitas Iesu</i>: Neo-Latin Writing and the Literary-Emotional Communities of the Old Society of Jesus
- Jesuit Theater
- Music in Global Jesuit Missions, 1540–1773
- Jesuit Mathematics
- Astronomy, Cosmology and Jesuit Discipline, 1540–1758
- Natural History in the Jesuit Missions
- Jesuit Humanism and Indigenous-Language Philology in the Americas and Asia
- The Historiography of the Society of Jesus
- Tracking Jesuit Psychologies: From Ubiquitous Discourse on the Soul to Institutionalized Discipline
- Jesuit Anthropology: Studying “Living Books”
- Anti-Jesuitism in a Global Perspective
- The Jesuits and the Enlightenment
- The Jesuit Rites Controversy
- The Age of Suppression: From the Expulsions to the Restoration of the Society of Jesus (1759–1820)
- The Restoration of the Society of Jesus and the Vagaries of Writing
- French and Canadian Jesuit History Writing: A Bridge between the “Old” and the “New” Society
- Jesuit Missions’ Past and the Idea of Return: Between History and Memory
- A Jesuit Way of Being Global?: Second Vatican Council, Inculturation, and Liberation Theology
- Jesuits in the Twenty-First Century
Abstract and Keywords
The Society of Jesus has long been recognized for its global contribution to the study, practice, and dissemination of European music in the early modern period, and especially for its interactions with non-European music cultures. In Europe, Jesuit colleges played a seminal role in music education and the development of music in drama, major sacred works were composed by or for Jesuits, and treatises on music were written by Jesuit theorists. In the Americas and on islands in Southeast Asia and the Pacific, music served as a device for evangelization and conversion of indigenous peoples; in some of the missions, European music was cultivated to a level reported as comparable with standards of cities in Europe. Meanwhile, elite Jesuit scholars who gained access to high courts in Asia engaged in dialogue with local scholars, impressing powerful potentates and distinguishing themselves through their talent in music and their skills in astronomy, mathematics, cartography, languages, and diplomacy. This chapter surveys and critiques the diverse role of music within the global missions of the early modern Society of Jesus, with case studies drawn from Europe, the Americas, and Asia.
Keywords: Society of Jesus (Jesuits), music, music-drama, evangelization, accommodation, transculturation, intercultural dialogue, music theory, liturgy, musical composition
Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne
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- The “First Fathers” of the Society of Jesus
- Jesuit Organization and Legislation: Development and Implementation of a Normative Framework
- Jesuit Letters
- Spiritual Exercises: Obedience, Conscience, Conquest
- Jesuit Interior Indias: Confession and Mapping of the Soul
- Financing Jesuit Missions
- Rise, Character, and Development of Jesuit Education: Teaching the World
- Elites and the Constitution of Jesuit Identity
- Political Theories and Jesuit Politics
- Jesuit Accommodation, Dissimulation, Mental Reservation
- Jesuit Missions between the Papacy and the Iberian Crowns
- Jesuits, <i>Conversos</i>, and <i>Alumbrados</i> in the Iberian World
- The Jesuit English Mission
- Jesuits in the Orthodox World
- Jesuits and Islam in Early Modern Europe
- Jesuit Missionaries and Missions in the Iberian Colonial World
- The Jesuits in Asia under the Portuguese <i>Padroado</i>: India, China, and Japan (Sixteenth to Seventeenth Centuries)
- Jesuit Involvement in Africa, 1548–2017
- Jesuit Visual Culture in a Machine Age
- Missionary Art and Architecture of the Society of Jesus between China and Brazil
- Jesuit Illustrated Books
- <i>Latinitas Iesu</i>: Neo-Latin Writing and the Literary-Emotional Communities of the Old Society of Jesus
- Jesuit Theater
- Music in Global Jesuit Missions, 1540–1773
- Jesuit Mathematics
- Astronomy, Cosmology and Jesuit Discipline, 1540–1758
- Natural History in the Jesuit Missions
- Jesuit Humanism and Indigenous-Language Philology in the Americas and Asia
- The Historiography of the Society of Jesus
- Tracking Jesuit Psychologies: From Ubiquitous Discourse on the Soul to Institutionalized Discipline
- Jesuit Anthropology: Studying “Living Books”
- Anti-Jesuitism in a Global Perspective
- The Jesuits and the Enlightenment
- The Jesuit Rites Controversy
- The Age of Suppression: From the Expulsions to the Restoration of the Society of Jesus (1759–1820)
- The Restoration of the Society of Jesus and the Vagaries of Writing
- French and Canadian Jesuit History Writing: A Bridge between the “Old” and the “New” Society
- Jesuit Missions’ Past and the Idea of Return: Between History and Memory
- A Jesuit Way of Being Global?: Second Vatican Council, Inculturation, and Liberation Theology
- Jesuits in the Twenty-First Century