The St Gall Passion Play

Music and Performance
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-420-2346-8
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 10, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 853 g

Reihe: Ludus

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

MacArdle, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Geistliche Musik, Religiöse Musik
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Praktische Theologie Liturgik, Christliche Anbetung, Sakramente, Rituale, Feiertage

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction
I: The Text and the Problem
II: Liturgy and Localization
III: Approaches
IV: ‘Cantat’ – ‘dicat’ – ‘respondeat’:Directions and Performers
A note on the transcription and editing of text and notation
V: Localizing the Play
VI: Before the Passion
VII: The Passion (1)
VIII: The Passion (2)
IX: The Resurrection and the Harrowing of Hell
X: The Empty Tomb
XI: Conclusions
Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Macardle lectures in German in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, England. He is the author of a number of studies of German and Latin culture of the late-medieval and early modern period.