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"In this book, Robert L. Kendrick examines the way in which stories of biblical families were reconfigured and projected in the genre of the oratorio, a form of sacred opera, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Based to a great extent on the Old Testament, this largely Catholic musico-dramatic genre was popular in Italy, Austria, and southern Germany. Biblical Families in Music reveals how difficult stories of fratricide, child sacrifice, death, and forbidden love performed a didactic function in oratorios, teaching early modern audiences about piety and the rules of proper family life. In the century after 1670, the heavily adapted tales of Abraham and Isaac, Cain and Abel, or the Egyptian slave Hagar and her son Ishmael, were put to music by figures such as Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Sacchini and performed during Lent in churches and other sacred spaces for an audience of court nobility, clergy, and the urban patriciate. By looking at the resonance of Catholic oratorios within predominantly upper-class social realities, the book broadens our cultural understanding of the early modern European family and underscores the centrality of family and familial relation to social position, devotional taste, and identity"--
"In this book, Robert L. Kendrick examines the way in which stories of biblical families were reconfigured and projected in the genre of the oratorio, a form of sacred opera, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Based to a great extent on the Old Testament, this largely Catholic musico-dramatic genre was popular in Italy, Austria, and southern Germany. Biblical Families in Music reveals how difficult stories of fratricide, child sacrifice, death, and forbidden love performed a didactic function in oratorios, teaching early modern audiences about piety and the rules of proper family life. In the century after 1670, the heavily adapted tales of Abraham and Isaac, Cain and Abel, or the Egyptian slave Hagar and her son Ishmael, were put to music by figures such as Alessandro Scarlatti and Antonio Sacchini and performed during Lent in churches and other sacred spaces for an audience of court nobility, clergy, and the urban patriciate. By looking at the resonance of Catholic oratorios within predominantly upper-class social realities, the book broadens our cultural understanding of the early modern European family and underscores the centrality of family and familial relation to social position, devotional taste, and identity"--
Über den Autor
Robert L. Kendrick is professor emeritus of music at the University of Chicago. His recent books include Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week and Fruits of the Cross: Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Importe, Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Allg. Handbücher & Lexika
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Einband - fest (Hardcover)
ISBN-13: 9780226836041
ISBN-10: 0226836045
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Kendrick, Robert L.
Hersteller: The University of Chicago Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 161 x 239 x 26 mm
Von/Mit: Robert L. Kendrick
Erscheinungsdatum: 02.04.2025
Gewicht: 0,55 kg
Artikel-ID: 132541590

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