The St Gall Passion Play: Music and Performance

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Rodopi, 2007 - 460
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.

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Before the Passion
165
The Passion 1
227
The Passion 2
281
The Resurrection and the Harrowing of Hell
321
The Empty Tomb
357
Conclusions
391
Bibliography
397

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Strona 227 - Vos nescitis quidquam; nee cogitatis, quia expedit vobis ut unus moriatur homo pro populo, et non tota gens pereat.
Strona 254 - Si ergo ego lavi pedes vestros, Dominus, et Magister: et vos debetis alter alterius lavare pedes.
Strona 227 - Collegerunt ergo pontífices et pharisaei concilium, et dicebant: Quid facimus? quia hic homo multa signa facit. Si dimittimus eum sic, omnes credent in eum; et venient Romani, et tollent nostrum locum et gentem.
Strona 383 - Te vicit dementia, Ut ferres nostra crimina Crudelem mortem patiens Ut nos a morte tolleres ! Inferni claustra penetrans, Tuos captivos redimens, Victor triumpho nobili, Ad dextram Patris residens.
Strona 129 - Tunc precingens se linteo et apprehensa pelvi cum aqua lavet pedes singulorum et cum pervenerit ad petrum cantet petrus ,Non lavabis< et dicat: Herre, meister, ez sal nit sin, 650 daz du waschest die vüze min.
Strona 147 - Quia ego sum. 10 Dicebant ergo ei: Quomodo aperti sunt tibi oculi ? 11 Respondit: Ille homo, qui dicitur lesus, lutum fecit: et unxit oculos meos, et dixit mihi: Vade ad natatoria Siloe, et lava. Et abii, lavi, et video.
Strona 151 - Et accedens tentator dixit ei: Si Filius Dei es, dic ut lapides isti panes fiant.
Strona 274 - Tanquam ad latronem existis cum gladiis et fustibus comprehendere me; quotidie apud vos sedebam docens in templo, et non me tenuistis.
Strona 191 - Scriptum est: Non in solo pane vivit homo, sed in omni verbo, quod procedit de ore Dei.
Strona 133 - Non lavabis mihi pedes in aeternum ! " Respondit ei JESUS : " Si non lavero te, non habebis partem mecum.

Informacje o autorze (2007)

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.

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