Over The First Four Decades Of The Reformation, Hundreds Of Songs Written In Popular Styles And Set To Well-known Tunes Appeared Across The German Territories. These Polemical Songs Included Satires On The Pope Or On Martin Luther, Ballads Retelling Historical Events, Translations Of Psalms And Musical Sermons. They Ranged From Ditties Of One Strophe To Didactic Lieder Of Fifty Or More. Luther Wrote Many Such Songs And This Book Contends That These Songs, And The Propagandist Ballads They Inspired, Had A Greater Effect On The German People Than Luther's Writings Or His Sermons. Music Was A Major Force Of Propaganda In The German Reformation.--book Jacket. Part One: Music As Propaganda -- Popular Songs As A Source For Reformation History -- Luther, Lieder And The Power Of Song -- Song And Sanctity: The Struggle For Ownership Of Devotional Music -- The Making Of A Contrafactum: Music And Mockery In The Reformation -- Popular Song As Resistance: The Role Of Music In The 1548 Interim -- Songs For The End Of Time: The Antichrist In Reformation Polemical Song -- The Significance Of Reformation-era Song Part Two: Songs Of The Reformation -- Catalogue Of Songs. Rebecca Wagner Oettinger. Revision Of The Author's Thesis--university Of Wisconsin, 1999. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [403]-414) And Indexes.