Fruits of the cross : Passiontide music theater in Habsburg Vienna /
Kendrick, Robert L.,author.
"In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri, semi-staged sacred operas performed on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, where music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly original art form that would impact music and performance across early modern Europe. Through the use of allegorical characters, the messages in the plays ranged from the devotionally intense to the theologically complex to the ugly anti-Jewish and played a unique role in making Passion piety both articulate and relevant to wider cultural concerns. Beyond the slightly worn historiographic generalizations on Habsburg religiosity (pietas Austriaca), Fruits of the Cross suggests that understanding the sepolcri has implications for ritual theater in early modern Europe, 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"--Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Passion and theater -- Devotional strategies -- Social others and selves -- 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.
"In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri, semi-staged sacred operas performed on Holy Thursday and Good Friday, Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, where music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly original art form that would impact music and performance across early modern Europe. Through the use of allegorical characters, the messages in the plays ranged from the devotionally intense to the theologically complex to the ugly anti-Jewish and played a unique role in making Passion piety both articulate and relevant to wider cultural concerns. Beyond the slightly worn historiographic generalizations on Habsburg religiosity (pietas Austriaca), Fruits of the Cross suggests that understanding the sepolcri has implications for ritual theater in early modern Europe, 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"--Provided by publisher.
Habsburg, House of
Habsburg, House of.
Sepolcri
Dramatic music
Dramatic music.
Sepolcri.
Fruits of the cross.