Download or read book Crossing Confessional Boundaries written by Mary E. Frandsen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-27 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an examination of the uneasy alliance of two confessions, Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent seventeenth-century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars.