Fruits of the Cross: Passiontide Music Theater under the Hapsburgs
Robert L. Kendrick
In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri--sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good Friday--Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, in which music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly original art form based on devotion to Christ's Tomb. Through the use of allegorical characters, the musical dramas ranged from the devotionally intense, to the theologically complex, to the ugly anti-Jewish, but played a unique role in making Passion piety relevant to wider cultural concerns. Fruits of.
سب زمرہ:
سال:
2018
ناشر کتب:
University of California Press
زبان:
english
صفحات:
220
ISBN 10:
0520969871
ISBN 13:
9780520969872
فائل:
PDF, 44.67 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2018