A book review is presented for Lutheran Music and the Thirty Years War: Confession, Politics, Devotion, authored by Derek L. Stauff, by Thomas Marks.
Author Biography
Thomas Marks is currently an independent researcher and choral director at The Allen-Stevenson School in New York City. Marks received his PhD in musicology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in 2019—a year-long postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music followed. His research explores the interdisciplinary intersections between music and the history of emotions in seventeenth-century Germany; he has presented his work at meetings of the American Musicological Society, the Renaissance Society of America, and the Frühe Neuzeit Interdiziplinär. His article, “Singing Repentance in Lutheran Germany during the Thirty Years War (1618–1648)” was published with Music & Letters in 2022, and his “Sighs of War and Peace: Feeling Prayer through Song in Lutheran Germany during the Thirty Years War” appears in the interdisciplinary collection of essays edited by Tryntje Helfferich and Howard Louthan, Beyond The Battlefield: Reconsidering Warfare in Early Modern Europe (Routledge, 2023). He is currently preparing a new critical edition of a work by Andreas Rauch (1592–1656). Since 2020, Marks has enjoyed introducing young learners to music and the humanities through his work in independent middle and upper schools in New England and the Northeast.
Marks, Thomas
(2025)
"Lutheran Music and the Thirty Years War: Confession, Politics, Devotion,"
Yale Journal of Music & Religion:
Vol. 11:
No.
2, Article 5.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17132/2377-231X.1356
