Fruits of the Cross : Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna EPUB
by Robert L. Kendrick
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In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcrisacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good FridayRobert 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 the Cross suggests that understanding the sepolcri has implications for the theatricalization of devotion, the power of allegory, the role of queenship in court ideology, the interplay between visuality and music, and not least the intellectual centrality of music theater to court self-understanding.
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- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:27/11/2018
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- ISBN:9780520969872
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- Format:EPUB
- Pages:264 pages
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:27/11/2018
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- ISBN:9780520969872