Kimberly Beck Hieb is associate professor of musicology at West Texas A&M University in Canyon, Texas, USA. Her 17th-century research takes up questions of religious and political representation in early modern sacred music and has been supported in part by a Fulbright Research Fellowship, the Austrian Exchange Agency, and a Eugene K. Wolf travel grant from the American Musicological Society. She is the author of a critical edition of Andreas Hofer's Ver sacrum seu flores musici (Salzburg 1677) (2021), and "Music for Martyrs: Sacred Music and the Particular Piety of Late Seventeenth-Century Salzburg" (2021).

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1 - Introduction: The Sounds of "Good" Government

Chapter 2 - Making Use of Materials on Hand: Sacred Music under Guidobald von Thun (r. 1654-1668)

Chapter 3 - The Massive and the Individual: Sacred Music under Maximilian Gandolph (r. 1668-1687)

Chapter 4 - Sacred Dramas, Music by Outsiders, and a Return to the Psalms: Sacred Music under Johann Ernst (r. 1687-1709)

Conclusion: Sacred Music as Cultural, Religious, and Political Artifact

Index