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  • 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 ... Leer más

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  • Singing Jeremiah

    Music and Meaning in Holy Week

    Series series Music and the Early Modern Imagination
    A defining moment in Catholic life in early modern Europe, Holy Week brought together the faithful to commemorate the passion, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. In this study of ritual and music, Robert L. Kendrick investigates the impact of the music used during the Paschal Triduum on European cultures during the mid-16th century, when devotional trends surrounding liturgical music ... Leer más

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  • Fruits of the Cross

    Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna

    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 ... Leer más

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Monteverdi

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  • The Solfeggio Tradition

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  • Francesca Caccini at the Medici Court

    Music and the Circulation of Power

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  • The Art of Executing Well

    Rituals of Execution in Renaissance Italy

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    In Renaissance Italy a good execution was both public and peaceful—at least in the eyes of authorities. In a feature unique to Italy, the people who prepared a condemned man or woman spiritually and psychologically for execution were not priests or friars, but laymen. This volume includes some of the songs, stories, poems, and images that they used, together with first-person accounts and ballads ... Leer más

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