Title Musical illuminations of Genesis narratives / by Helen Leneman

Published London ; New York : Bloomsbury T & T Clark, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2017

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Description 1 online resource Series Library of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament studies ; volume 646 Contents Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Voices of Eve (Genesis 2 -- 3) -- A. Commentary -- B. Music -- 1. Jules Massenet and Eve: Mystere (1875) -- 2. Gabriel Faure and La Chanson d'Eve (1910) -- ch. 2 Noah and the Flood (Genesis 6 -- 9) -- A. Commentary -- B. Music -- 1. Camille Saint-Saens and Le Deluge (The Flood) (1875) -- 2. Gaetano Donizetti and Il Diluvio Universale (1830) -- 3. Jacques Fromenthal Halevy and Georges Bizet, Noe (1862/69) -- 4. Benjamin Britten and Noye's Fludde (1958) -- 5. Igor Stravinsky and The Flood (1962) -- C. General Conclusions -- ch. 3 Part 1 The Abraham -- Sarah Narratives (Genesis 12 -- 22) -- A. Commentary -- 1. Chapter 12: The Call of Abraham; the First Sister -- Wife Narrative -- 2. Chapter 13: Wandering -- 3. Chapter 15 -- 4. Chapter 16: The Birth of Ishmael -- 5. Chapter 17: Circumcision -- 6. Chapters 18 -- 19: The Messengers; Sodom and Gomorrah -- 7. Chapter 20: More Wandering; Second Sister -- Wife Narrative -- 8. Chapter 21: Birth of Isaac, Expulsion of Hagar -- 9. Chapter 22: The Aqedah -- B. Music -- 1. Abraham in Nineteenth-century Oratorios -- 2. Carl Amand Mangold and Abraham (1860) -- 3. Martin Blumner and Abraham (1862) -- 4. Abraham in Twentieth- and Twenty-first Century Opera -- 5. Kurt Weill and The Eternal Road (1937) -- 6. Ezra Laderman and Sarah (1958) -- 7. Gerald Cohen and Sarah and Hagar (2008) -- 8. Elinor Remick Warren and Abram in Egypt (1961) -- C. General Conclusions -- ch. 3 Part 2 The Abraham -- Sarah Narratives (Genesis 12 -- 22) -- A. Aqedah Settings -- 1. Abraham Goldfaden and Akeidas Izchok (1898) -- 2. Ildebrando Pizzetti and La Rappresentazione di Abram e d'Isaac (1928) -- 3. Igor Stravinsky and Abraham and Isaac (1964) -- 4. Judith Kaplan Eisenstein and The Sacrifice of Isaac: A Liturgical Drama (1972) -- B. Hagar in Song -- 1. Franz Schubert and Hagars Klage (Hagar's Lament; 1811) -- 2. Juan Crisostomo Arriaga and Agar dans le Desert (Hagar in the Desert; 1825) -- 3. Sally Beamish and Hagar in the Wilderness (2013) -- 4. Sarah from Women of Valor Suite by Andrea Clearfield (Text and Music; 2000) -- ch. 4 Rebecca at the Well (Genesis 24) -- A. Commentary -- B. Music -- 1. Ferdinand Hiller and Rebecca, Biblisches Idyll (1877) -- 2. Cesar Franck and Rebecca: Scene Biblique (1881) -- 3. Celanie Carissan and Rebecca: Oratorio (1893) -- C. General Conclusion -- ch. 5 Joseph and His Brothers (Genesis 37 -- 50) -- A. Commentary -- B. Music -- 1. George Frederick Handel: Joseph and His Brethren (1744) -- 2. Etienne-Nicolas Mehul and Joseph: opera en trois actes (1807) -- 3. Kurt Weill and The Eternal Road -- C. General Conclusion -- Annotated Appendix of Additional Works -- A. Voices of Eve -- 1. Alexander Goehr (1932 -- ), Eve Dreams in Paradise (op. 49) -- 2. Charles Villiers Stanford, Eden (1891) -- 3. Joseph Haydn's The Creation (1796) -- 4. Alessandro Scarlatti, Cain overo Il primo omicidio (Cain or the first homicide) (1707) -- 5. Rodolphe Kreutzer (1766 -- 1831), La Mort d'Abel (The Death of Abel; 1810/revised 1823) -- 6. Stephen Schwartz, Children of Eden (1986) -- 7. Jerry Bock, Lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, The Apple Tree (1966) -- 8. Nathaniel Shilkret, The Genesis Suite (1945) -- B. Noah and The Flood -- 1. Daniel Beltzhoover, The Deluge (1860s) -- 2. Alexander Goehr (1932 -- ), The Deluge (1957) -- C. Abraham and Sarah Narratives -- D. Rebecca at the Well -- E. Joseph and His Brothers Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed SUBJECT Bible. Genesis -- Criticism, interpretation, etc Bible. Genesis fast Subject Operas -- Analysis, appreciation. Oratorios -- Analysis, appreciation. Bible in music. MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory. Bible in music Operas -- Analysis, appreciation Oratorios -- Analysis, appreciation Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2017032205 ISBN 9780567673749 056767374X

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