Handel's Israelite Oratorio Libretti
Sacred Drama and Biblical Exegesis
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 23 February 2012
- ISBN 9780199279289
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 240x162x21 mm
- Weight 586 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Combining the insights of present-day biblical studies with those of Handelian studies, this book examines the libretti of ten of Handel's Israelite oratorios and evaluates the relationship between each libretto and the biblical story on which it is based.
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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 text that 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 of the 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 the distinctive 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.
Every time [Rooke] described Handels works with reference to modern biblical scholarship, the pages turned themselves ... a good read
Table of Contents:
Introit
To Laugh or not to Laugh: the Question of Esther
A Gender Agenda: Deborah in Holy Writ and Handel
Jezebel, Joash and Jesus Christ: Aspects of Athalia
Saul: Tragedy, Treachery, and Theology
From Wild Man to War Hero: The Story of Samson
Joseph: saint or sinner? Italian Opera, Handelian Oratorio, and Eighteenth-century Commentaries
Judas Macchabaeus: Justifying the 1745 Anti-Jacobite Campaign
Solomon and his Women: A Handelian Triptych
Susanna: A Marriage Made in Heaven
Sex and Death, or the Death of Sex: The Fate of Jephthah's Daughter
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