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Biblical Families in Music
- Conflict and Heterodoxy in Oratorios, 1670–1770
Engelsk Hardback
Biblical Families in Music
- Conflict and Heterodoxy in Oratorios, 1670–1770
Engelsk Hardback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
264
ISBN-13:
9780226836041
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0226836045
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Udg. Dato:
2 apr 2025
Længde:
26mm
Bredde:
239mm
Højde:
161mm
Forlag:
The University of Chicago Press
Oplagsdato:
2 apr 2025
Forfatter(e):
Books from the same author
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