Fruits of the Cross: Passiontide Music Theater under the Hapsburgs

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In this first detailed study of seventeenth-century sepolcri--sacred operas written for court performance on Holy Thursday and Good Friday--Robert L. Kendrick delves into the political and artistic world of Habsburg Vienna, in which music and ritual combined on the stage to produce a thoroughly original art form based on devotion to Christ's Tomb. Through the use of allegorical characters, the musical dramas ranged from the devotionally intense, to the theologically complex, to the ugly anti-Jewish, but played a unique role in making Passion piety relevant to wider cultural concerns. Fruits of.  Read more... Intro Subvention Title Page Copyright Epigraph Contents List of Illustrations List of Music Examples Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Notes on Sources Introduction 1. Passion and Theater 2. Devotional Strategies 3. Social Others and Selves 4. 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 Notes Bibliography General Index Index of Sepolcri by Short Title.