The Performed Bible: The Story of Ruth in Opera and Oratorio (The Bible in the Modern World, 11) - Hardcover

Leneman, Helen

 
9781905048564: The Performed Bible: The Story of Ruth in Opera and Oratorio (The Bible in the Modern World, 11)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1905048564 ISBN 13: 9781905048564
Verlag: Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

The Bible and Western culture is a burgeoning area of interest in recent scholarship, but comparatively little has been written on the Bible and music. Leneman's is a groundbreaking work, making some pioneering forays across an important interdisciplinary divide. The Performed Bible is an in-depth study of the librettos and music of 12 operas and oratorios on the story of Ruth from the last two centuries, establishing the potential of music, as a kind of midrash, for transforming a Bible text, its narrative and its characterization. The book includes detailed analyses of musical segments, the author being a cantor and professional musician in whose Jewish tradition biblical texts are chanted, not read. This fresh and insightful work will no doubt prove attractive to biblical scholars, to musicians and to music lovers generally.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Helen Leneman is a biblical scholar as well as a singer and pianist. She has written numerous books about the Bible in music. She now resides in London, where she and her partner moved to be close to their daughter and her family.

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Verlag
Sheffield Phoenix Press Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1905048564
ISBN 13 
9781905048564
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
276
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