Reforming Music : Music and the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century

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.

The music of the Reformations was music reformed, music reforming and the reform of music: this book shows what the Reformations sounded like, and how music became one of the protagonists in the religious conflicts of the sixteenth century.