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Harmonious Monk: Martin Luther and His Reformation through Music

Harmonious Monk: Martin Luther and His Reformation through Music

“Harmonious Monk: Martin Luther and His Reformation through Music”
Christopher Boyd Brown, Associate Professor of Church History, Boston University
Wednesday, October 4, 7 – 9 p.m.
Earl and Darielle Linehan Concert Hall

Dr. Christopher Boyd Brown and UMBC’s Camerata and Collegium Musicum will present an interdisciplinary concert-lecture commemorating the 500-year anniversary of Martin Luther’s contribution to the Reformation (October 1517 – October 2017). Christopher Boyd Brown will discuss Martin Luther’s use of music and the community practice of hymn-singing in the Protestant Reformation. Luther harnessed the power of music to deliver devotional texts in the vernacular and to bring communities together in worship. UMBC students in the Camerata and Collegium Musicum will provide live musical examples of plainchant, Reformation hymns, and multi-part choral works by Walter and Bach. They will perform examples of pre-existing music Luther altered for his own purposes, music newly composed for Protestant communities, and music written after Lutheranism was long established.

Christopher Boyd Brown is a recognized scholar of Martin Luther and Reformation music. He has published Singing the Gospel: Lutheran Hymns and the Success of the Reformation (Harvard University Press, 2005), and several studies on the role of midwives in early modern Lutheranism.

Admission is free.

Plan your visit
UMBC is located about 10 minutes south of the Inner Harbor along I-95. For this event, free visitor parking is available in Lot 8, directly adjacent to the Performing Arts and Humanities Building, where Linehan Concert Hall is located.

This event is part of UMBC's Humanities Forum, sponsored by UMBC's Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program, the Department of Music, the Dresher Center for the Humanities, and the Religious Studies Program.

Event Contact

Willie Santiago
410-455-2943

Event Details

Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Free

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