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Book The St Gall Passion Play

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  • Author : Peter Macardle
  • Publisher : Rodopi
  • Release : 2007
  • ISBN : 9042023465
  • Pages : 462 pages

Download or read book The St Gall Passion Play written by Peter Macardle and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2007 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early-fourteenth-century St Gall Passion Play comes from the Central Rhineland. Unfortunately its music (over one hundred Latin and German chants) is given in the manuscript only as brief incipits, without any musical notation. This interdisciplinary study reconstructs the musical stratum of the play. It is the first full-scale musical reconstruction of a large German Passion play in recent times, using the latest available scholarly data in drama, liturgy and music. It draws conclusions about performance practice and forces, and offers a sound basis for an authentic performance of the play. The study applies musical and liturgical data to the problem of localizing the play (the first time this has been systematically attempted), and assesses how applicable this might be to other plays. It presents a detailed study of the distinctive medieval liturgical uses of three German dioceses, Mainz, Speyer and Worms. The comparative approach suggests how the music of other plays might be reconstructed and understood, and shows that a better understanding of the music of medieval drama has much to teach us about other aspects of the genre. The book should be of interest to literary scholars, theatre historians, musicologists, liturgical scholars, and those involved in the performance of early drama.

Book Saint Gall Passion Play

Download or read book Saint Gall Passion Play written by West and published by BRILL. This book was released on 1976-12 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Latin Passion Play

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  • Author : Sandro Sticca
  • Publisher : SUNY Press
  • Release : 1970-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780873950459
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book The Latin Passion Play written by Sandro Sticca and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1970-01-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive study of the Latin Passion play, Professor Sticca examines the medieval liturgical ceremonies commemorating the events in Christ's Passion and traces their gradual change in character from the contemplative to the dramatic. The author shows that while Christ's Passion became increasingly popular as one of the sacred mysteries beginning in the tenth century, new forces that allowed a more eloquent and humane visualization and description of Christ's anguish first appeared in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Professor Sticca analyzes the earliest extant Latin Passion play, the twelfth-century Montecassino codex, and compares it with other Latin and vernacular Passion plays. He refutes the traditional view that the Planctus Mariae is the germinal point of the Latin Passion play and then offers a new theory of its inception. As a literary form, the Latin Passion play appears to Professor Sticca as a creation of the Montecassino monastic circle which was inspired by the liturgical services of Good Friday and the Gospel accounts. Particularly influential also were three themes that developed in the eleventh century: in liturgy, a concentration on Christocentric piety; in art, a more humanistic treatment of Christ; and in literature, a consideration of the scenes of the Passion as dramatic and human episodes. In the course of this investigation, Professor Sticca also reappraises traditional views of the origin of the medieval liturgical drama, indicating that it should not be traced exclusively to the tropes from the schools of St. Gall and St. Martial of Limoges, but rather to a number of sources.

Book Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature

Download or read book Representations of Jews in Late Medieval and Early Modern German Literature written by John D. Martin and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2006 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonly held that medieval Christians viewed medieval Jews in exclusively negative terms. This is certainly the dominant opinion in much twentieth-century scholarship, and it is not wholly without justification. It is, however, an opinion that does not accurately reflect the breadth of medieval German Christian thinking about medieval German Jews. Drawing on Passion plays, hagiographical narratives and didactic literature, this monograph reveals a hitherto largely unacknowledged diversity in medieval German representations of Jews. In many of the best-attested texts from the late medieval and early modern periods, Jews appear in German literature as sympathetic, even morally exemplary figures.

Book Medieval Germany

Download or read book Medieval Germany written by John M. Jeep and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopedia covering the political, social, intellectual, religious and cultural history of the German- and Dutch-speaking medieval world, between 500 and 1500. Entries cover individuals and their deeds as well as broader historical topics.

Book Routledge Revivals  Medieval Germany  2001

Download or read book Routledge Revivals Medieval Germany 2001 written by John M. Jeep and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 969 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2001, Medieval Germany: An Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive guide to the German and Dutch-speaking world in the Middle Ages, from approximately C.E. 500 to 1500. It offers detailed accounts of a wide variety of aspects of medieval Germany, including language, literature, architecture, politics, warfare, medicine, philosophy and religion. In addition, this reference work includes bibliographies and citations to aid further study. This A-Z encyclopedia, featuring over 500 entries written by expert contributors, will be of key interest to students and scholars, as well as general readers.

Book A Prophet for Our Time

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  • Author : Marc H. Tanenbaum
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780823222308
  • Pages : 434 pages

Download or read book A Prophet for Our Time written by Marc H. Tanenbaum and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthology of Tanenbaum's most influential writings underscores his major contributions in the areas of civil and human rights, international affairs, and, above all, the development of Jewish-Christian understanding and mutual respect. The thirty-four selections, organized chronologically, track close to thirty years of vigorous, wise, and passionate advocacy."--BOOK JACKET.

Book The Abbey of St  Gall as a Centre of Literature   Art

Download or read book The Abbey of St Gall as a Centre of Literature Art written by James Midgley Clark and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1926 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Betrifft die Handschrift Cod. 264 der Burgerbibliothek Bern (S. 144-146 und 303).

Book Poetry and Drama

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  • Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
  • Publisher : Britannica Educational Publishing
  • Release : 2011-05-01
  • ISBN : 1615305394
  • Pages : 257 pages

Download or read book Poetry and Drama written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britannica Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Verse and drama have provided outlets for emotive expression and the creative impulse for centuries. Poignant, inspiring, and thought-provoking, plays and poems spoken or written in any language help reinterpret reality and evoke some of humanity’s most profound truths. The terms culled in this volume describe many of the most potent elements of language—those that venture beyond the realm of prose and invoke the power of cadence, lyricism, and drama to recount all aspects of the human condition.

Book The Alsfeld Passion Play

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  • Author : Larry E. West
  • Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
  • Release : 1997
  • ISBN : 9780773486980
  • Pages : 766 pages

Download or read book The Alsfeld Passion Play written by Larry E. West and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation and introduction is intended to fill a crucial void in German literary and linguistic scholarship by 1) making the play available to an English-speaking audience; 2) examining its origins, development, staging, and unique contributions to the genre; and 3) providing a companion text for students of late Middle High German. The Alsfeld Passion Play represents the culmination, and perhaps the most complex stage of development of the German Passion Play tradition. The Alsfeld play was a three-day play, with performances in 1501, 1511, and 1517. With roles for 188 players it was presented on the open market square, and was conspicuous for its extensive devils' scenes, portrayal of Mary Magdalene before her conversion, and lengthy disputation scenes. At present there are no known translations of the Alsfeld play, in modern German or in English. The original manuscript, preserved at the Landesbibliothek in Kassel, contains 8095 lines of dialogue along with incipits, stage directions, and a rich variety of liturgical songs. Text and translations appear on facing pages. This book is available at a special text price. Call (716) 754-2788 for information on text orders.

Book Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays

Download or read book Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays written by Peter Happé and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays is centred upon the five extant English mystery cycles with a view to examining the cyclic form they share. It is based upon consideration of the differences between the texts and upon the underlying assumptions governing this dramatic form. The cycles are extensively compared with practices in the cyclic dramas of France, the German-speaking areas, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain in the late middle ages and the early modern period. There is also a unique and innovative bridging with iconographical material from a range of artistic modes giving further insight into the structure and organisation of cyclic form. Cyclic Form and the English Mystery Plays should be of interest to undergraduate students and to more experienced researchers in the early drama and the study of visual images and artefacts.

Book Drama and Religion  Volume 5

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  • Author : James Redmond
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2008-10-30
  • ISBN : 9780521088695
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Drama and Religion Volume 5 written by James Redmond and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Themes in Drama is a journal which brings together articles and review about the dramatic and theatrical activity of a wide range of cultures and periods. The articles offer original contributions to their own specialised fields, but are presented in such a way that their significance may be readily appreciated by non-specialists. The review section is especially important since reviewers have more than usual scope to give critical accounts of drama in performance and to discuss the most significant contributions to dramatic scholarship and criticism.

Book Oberammergau and Its Passion Play  1910

Download or read book Oberammergau and Its Passion Play 1910 written by A. Bruckmann (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mediaeval Stage

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  • Author : Edmund Kerchever Chambers
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1903
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 498 pages

Download or read book The Mediaeval Stage written by Edmund Kerchever Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book book III  Religious drama  book IV  The interlude  Appendices

Download or read book book III Religious drama book IV The interlude Appendices written by Edmund Kerchever Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: