Description Five hundred years ago a monk nailed his theses to a church gate in Wittenberg.
The sound of Luther\'s mythical hammer, however, was by no means the only aural manifestation of the religious Reformations.
This book describes the birth of Lutheran Chorales and Calvinist Psalmody; of how Music was practised by Catholic nuns, Lutheran schoolchildren, battling Huguenots, missionaries and martyrs, cardinals at Trent and heretics in hiding, at a time when Palestrina, Lasso an.
Description Five hundred years ago a monk nailed his theses to a church gate in Wittenberg