Fruits of the Cross (eBook)

Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna

Robert L. Kendrick (Autor)

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2018
264 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-96987-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
List of Music Examples
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and Notes on Sources

Introduction
1. Passion and Theater
2. Devotional Strategies
3. Social Others and Selves
4. Music and Its Affects
Epilogue: The Power of the Cross

Appendix 1. Checklist of Sepolcri, 1660–1711
Appendix 2. The Preserved Repertory, 1660–1705, and Its Possible Tonalities
Appendix 3. Possible Burnacini Drawings for Sepolcri
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Sepolcri by Short Title

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.11.2018
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Klassik / Oper / Musical
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Religion / Theologie ► Christentum ► Kirchengeschichte
• Schlagworte: 17th century • anti jewish • art form • artistic world • Christ • Complex • court • Cultural • devotionally intense • Good Friday • Habsburg • Holy Thursday • music • musical dramas • Music theater • Opera • passion piety • Political • power of allegory • queenship • Religion • Ritual • sepolcri • stage • Theater • theatricalization of devotion • tomb • Vienna
• ISBN-10: 0-520-96987-1 / 0520969871
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-96987-2 / 9780520969872