Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall

Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall explores interconnections of the sacred and the secular in music and aesthetic debates of the long nineteenth century. The essays in this volume view the category of the sacred not as a monolithic attribute that applies only to music written for and performed in a religious ritual. Rather, the “sacred” is viewed as a functional as well as a topical category that enhances the discourse of cross-pollination of musical vocabularies between sacred and secular compositions, church and concert music. Using a variety of methodological approaches, the contributors articulate how sacred and religious identities coalesce, reconcile, fuse, or intersect in works from the long nineteenth century that traverse an array of genres and compositional styles.

Matthew Hoch is a Professor of Voice at Auburn University. He is the 2016 winner of the Van L. Lawrence Fellowship, awarded jointly by the Voice Foundation and NATS. Hoch serves as Associate Editor of the of the voice pedagogy column for the Journal of Singing and Editor of the “On the Voice” column in the ACDA Choral Journal.

Eftychia Papanikolaou is Associate Professor of Musicology at Bowling Green State University, USA. She co-edited Sacred and Secular Intersections in Music of the Long Nineteenth Century: Church, Stage, and Concert Hall (2022). Her scholarship so far has reflected the diversity and needs of both the undergraduate and graduate population (music from the romantic period, music and the moving image, opera, dance).