The sacrifice of Isaac : the reception of a Biblical story in music /
Long, Siobhán Dowling.
Sheffield : Sheffield Phoenix Press,
2013
Includes bibliographical references (p. [256]-269) and index.
Discography: p. [270]-271.
The Biblical story -- The reception of Genesis 22 in Christian tradition -- The Mediaeval mystery plays: Abraham and Isaac -- The Akedah in Jewish tradition -- Isaac, a passive victim in seventeenth-century music: Giacomo Carissimi's Historia di Abraham et Isaac -- Isaac, a type of Christ in eighteenth-century music: Josef Myslivec̆ek's Abramo ed Isacco -- Isaac, a tragic hero in twentieth-century music: Tales of heroism and murder in two compositions by Benjamin Britten -- The death of Isaac: a musical retelling by Judith Lang Zaimont.
Isaac (Biblical patriarch)
Bible