13. Music in Christian Services as a Means to Induce Religious Feelings

Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann is Director of the Department of Music at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) and Professor of Systematic Musicology at the Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main. Her publications include Welterkenntnis aus Musik: Athanasius Kirchers ‘Musurgia universalis’ und die Universalwissenschaftim 17. Jahrhundert [Knowledge of the World from Music. Athanasius Kircher’s ‘Musurgia universalis’ and Universal Science in the Seventeenth Century] (2006), ‘Ein Mittel wider sich selbst’: Melancholie in der Instrumentalmusik um 1800 [‘A Means Against Itself’: Melancholy in Instrumental Music around 1800] (2010), and as co-editor, with Klaus-Peter Dannecker and Sven Boenneke, Wirkungsästhetik der Liturgie: Transdisziplinäre Perspektiven [Aesthetics of Liturgy: Transdisciplinary Perspectives] (2020).