Biblical Families in Music: Conflict and Heterodoxy in Oratorios, 1670-1770 - Rilegato

Kendrick, Robert L.

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ISBN 10: 0226836045 ISBN 13: 9780226836041

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2025

Riassunto

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 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, and the Egyptian slave Hagar and her son Ishmael were set 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 examining 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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

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.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0226836045
• ISBN 13: 9780226836041
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 280
• Contatto del produttore: The University of Chicago Press; https://press.uchicago.edu/index.html; ; 5801 S. Ellis Avenue; Chicago; IL; 60637; U.S.A.
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