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EBOOK Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti:Sacred Drama and Biblical Exegesis
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780191613302
EAN: 59C441E5EB
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Stron: 288
Data wydania: 2012
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Handel's Israelite oratorios are today little known among non-specialists, but in        their own day they were unique, pioneering and extremely popular. Dating from the        period 1732-1752, they combine the musical conventions of Italian opera with        dramatic plots in English that are adaptations of Old Testament narratives. They        constitute a form of biblical interpretation, but to date, there has been no        thoroughgoing study of the theological ideas or the attitudes towards the biblical        textthat might be conveyed in the oratorios' libretti. This book aims to fill that        gap from an interdisciplinary perspective.Combining the insights of present-day        biblical studies with those of Handelian studies, Deborah W. Rooke examines the        libretti of ten oratorios - Esther, Deborah, Athalia, Saul, Samson, Joseph and his        Brethren, Judas Macchabaeus, Solomon, Susanna and Jephtha - and evaluates the        relationship between each libretto and the biblical story on which it is based.          Rooke comments on each biblical text from a modern scholarly perspective, and then        compares the modern interpretation with the version ofthe biblical narrative that        appears in the relevant libretto. Where the libretto is based on a prior dramatic or        literary adaptation of the biblical narrative, she also discusses the prior        adaptation and how it relates to both the biblical text and the corresponding        oratorio libretto. In this way thedistinctive nuances of the oratorio libretti are        highlighted, and each libretto is then analysed and interpreted in the light of        eighteenth-century religion, scholarship, culture and politics. The result is a        fascinating exploration not only of the oratorio libretti but also of how culture        and context determines the nature of biblical interpretation.

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