Biblical Families in Music: Conflict and Heterodoxy in Oratorios, 1670-1770 - Hardcover

Kendrick, Robert L.

 
9780226836041: Biblical Families in Music: Conflict and Heterodoxy in Oratorios, 1670-1770
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0226836045 ISBN 13: 9780226836041
Verlag: University of Chicago Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

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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Robert L. Kendrick is professor emeritus of music at the University of Chicago. His recent books include Singing Jeremiah: Music and Meaning in Holy Week and Fruits of the Cross: Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna.

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Verlag
University of Chicago Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0226836045
ISBN 13 
9780226836041
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Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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