Love, lust, and lunacy
Subtitle: the stories of Saul and David in music
By: Helen Leneman
Series: Bible in the modern world -- 29; Bible in the modern world -- 29.
Publisher: Sheffield Phoenix Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sheffield, UK
Language: eng
Number of pages: 399
ISBN-13: 9781907534065
Subjects: Criticism, interpretation; Bible; Bible in music; Klassische Musik
Notes: Minimal Level Cataloging Plus.

Includes bibliographical references (pages389-396) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: On music and literary analysis; title: The composers and the works; title: Saul's youth, before David (1 Samuel 8-15); title: Saul's and David's stories overlap, part I (1 Samuel 16-17); title: Sauls's and David's stories overlap, part II (1 Samuel 18-22); title: Saul's and David's stories overlap, part III (1 Samuel 24-26); title: Saul visits necromancer of Endor (1 Samuel 28); title: Deaths of Saul and Jonathan, and David's rise to power (1 Samuel 31, 2 Samuel 1); title: David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11-12); title: David's later story: Tamar, Absalom and the death of David (2 Samuel 13-19, 1 Kings 1-2); title: Conclusion; title: Appendix 1: Charting the musical retellings; title: Appendix 2: Annotated music bibliography; title: Appendix 3: Literary afterlives.