Music, Persecution and the Freedom of the Soul | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
2004
Volume 74, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 0165-2346
  • E-ISSN: 2773-1847

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Abstract

This article explores how metrical psalmody as a form of musical poetry was utilised to relieve mental, physical and emotional turmoil which early-modern religious prisoners and refugees underwent, focussing on Philips van Marnix’s (1580). By situating Marnix’s psalm versification within the context of Renaissance Biblical humanism where music and poetry are inseparable, the article seeks to determine the place of Marnix in the history of religious poetics contributing to early Protestant devotional practices, in which the psalmody served as the songs of transcendence, freeing the soul from persecution and, ultimately, from the death of the body.

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