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The voice of Judith in 300 years of oratorio and opera / Helen Leneman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leneman, Helen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. Judith--Drama.
- Bible.
- Bible. Judith--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible. Judith.
- Bible in music.
- Operas--Analysis, appreciation.
- Operas.
- Oratorios--Analysis, appreciation.
- Oratorios.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 266 pages): illustrations (black and white
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : T&T Clark, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- List of Works with Links to audio and scores
- List of Musical Illustrations
- Introduction
- Part One: Oratorios
- Chapter 1, Seventeenth-eighteenth century : Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725): La Giuditta (two versions: 1694, 1697) ; Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741): Juditha Triumphans (1716) ; Thomas Arne (1710-1778): Judith (1761, 1764) ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Betulia Liberata (1771)
- Chapter 2, Nineteenth-twentieth century : Henry David Leslie (1822-1896): Judith (1858) ; C. Hubert Parry (1848-1918): Judith, or The Regeneration of Manasseh (1888); Paul Hillemacher (1852-1933): Judith, Scène Lyrique (1876) ; Arthur Honegger (1892-1955): Judith, Drame Biblique (1925)
- Part Two: Operas
- Chapter 3, Influential nineteenth-century plays : Friedrich Hebbel Judith (1840) ; Paolo Giacometti Giuditta (1857)
- Chapter 4, Nineteenth-century Operas : Achille Peri (1812-1880): Giuditta (1860) ; Domenico Silveri (1818-1900): Giuditta (1885) ; Charles Lefebvre (1843-1917): Judith, drame lyrique en 3 acts 4 scenes (1877) ; Alexander Serov (1820-1871): Iudif (1863)
- Chapter 5, Twentieth-century Operas George Whitfield Chadwick (1854-1931): Judith (1901); Emil von Reznicek (1860-1945): Holofernes (1922) ; Eugene Goossens (1893-1962): Judith (1927) ; Siegfried Matthus (1934
- ): Judith (1984)
- Table and Conclusion
- Bibliography of musical works (chronological)
- Bibliography.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Leneman, Helen, The voice of Judith in 300 years of oratorio and opera
- ISBN:
- 9780567687319
- 0567687317
- Publisher Number:
- 99987442995
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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