Biblical Families in Music: Conflict and Heterodoxy in Oratorios, 1670-1770
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Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226836041ISBN-10:226836045UPC:9780226836041Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Instruction & Study, History & Criticism, Genres & StylesBook Topic:Voice, OperaWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCGZ7X6SH8
Biblical Families in Music: Conflict and Heterodoxy in Oratorios, 1670-1770
Examines how 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, the largely Catholic musical-dramatic genre was popular in Italy, Austria, and southern Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Biblical Families in Music reveals how...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226836041ISBN-10:226836045UPC:9780226836041Book Category:MusicBook Subcategory:Instruction & Study, History & Criticism, Genres & StylesBook Topic:Voice, OperaWeight:1.0009Product ID:SCGZ7X6SH8
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.
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