Fruits of the Cross - Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna (Hardcover)

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 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.

General

Imprint:	University of California Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 2018
First published:	2019
Authors:	Robert L. Kendrick
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 5mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	264
ISBN-13:	978-0-520-29757-9
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > Theatre, drama > Opera Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Other types of music > Sacred & religious music Books > Humanities > History > European history > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > General Books > History > European history > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > General Books > Music > Other types of music > Sacred & religious music Books > Music > Theory of music & musicology > General Books > Christianity
LSN:	0-520-29757-1
Barcode:	9780520297579

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