Fruits of the Cross : Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna / Robert L. Kendrick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kendrick, Robert L., Author.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Habsburg, House of--History--17th century.

Habsburg, House of.

Sepolcri--Austria--Vienna--17th century--History and criticism.

Sepolcri.

Dramatic music--Europe, Central--17th century--History and criticism.

Dramatic music.

Vienna (Austria)--Intellectual life--17th century.

Vienna (Austria).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Music Examples

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Notes on Sources

Introduction

1. Passion and Theater

2. Devotional Strategies

3. Social Others and Selves

4. Music and Its Affects

Epilogue: The Power of the Cross

Appendix 1. Checklist of Sepolcri, 1660-1711

Appendix 2. The Preserved Repertory, 1660-1705, and Its Possible Tonalities

Appendix 3. Possible Burnacini Drawings for Sepolcri

Notes

Bibliography

General Index

Index of Sepolcri by Short Title

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

Other Format:

Print version: Kendrick, Robert L. Fruits of the cross.

ISBN:

0-520-96987-1

OCLC:

1100453628