Handel’s Israelite Oratorio Libretti: Sacred Drama and Biblical Exegesis by Deborah W. Rooke
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Overview: 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.
Genre: History > Religious History
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