Fruits of the Cross
The publisher gratefully acknowledges the generous support of the Margarita M. Hanson Endowment of the American Musicological Society, funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
The publisher and the University of California Press Foundation gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Constance and William Withey Endowment Fund in History and Music.
Fruits of the Cross
Passiontide Music Theater in Habsburg Vienna
Robert L. Kendrick
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University of California Press
Oakland, California
© 2019 by Robert L. Kendrick
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Kendrick, Robert L., author.
Title: Fruits of the cross : Passiontide music theater in Habsburg Vienna / Robert L. Kendrick.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2019] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018023733 (print) | LCCN 2018027723 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520969872 (E-book) | ISBN 9780520297579 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Sepolcri—Austria—Vienna—17th century—History and criticism. | Habsburg, House of—History—17th century. | Dramatic music—Europe, Central—17th century—History and criticism.
Classification: LCC ML3222.2 (ebook) | LCC ML3222.2 . K46 2019 (print) | DDC 782.2/4—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018023733
Manufactured in the United States of America
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The design here [the lament of the Three Marys at Christ’s Tomb in medieval English plays] is a kind of dramatic action which some modern definitions of action would altogether exclude: the action of a structure of feeling, expressed in a rhythmic pattern, of dramatic speech at a gained point of stillness and intensity.
—Raymond Williams, Drama in Performance
Contents
Abbreviations and Notes on Sources
3. Social Others and Selves
4. Music and Its Affects
Epilogue: The Power of the Cross
Appendix 1. Checklist of Sepolcri, 1660–1711
Appendix 2. The Preserved Repertory, 1660–1705, and Its Possible Tonalities
Appendix 3. Possible Burnacini Drawings for Sepolcri
Notes
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Sepolcri by Short Title
Illustrations
1. Frans Luycx, Crucifixion with Habsburg Mourners (c. 1662)
2. J.A. Pfeffel and C. Engelbrecht (after J.C. Hackhofer), 1705 view of the Hofburgkapelle
4. Plan: The Alte Burg complex in the late seventeenth century
5. L.O. Burnacini, Moses and the Burning Bush
6. L.O. Burnacini, Jonah Cast Overboard
7. L.O. Burnacini, Punishment of Core and Followers
8. L.O. Burnacini, Tempest with Shipwreck
9. L.O. Burnacini, The Sacrifice of Isaac
Music Examples
1.1. G. Tricarico, La Gara della Misericordia e Giustizia (1661; A-Wn 18716), “Uccidetemi omai,” f. 8v
2.1. J.H. Schmelzer, Stärcke der Lieb (1677; A-Wn 16883), “Uebe dich forthin,” f. 16
2.2. Leopold I, Il Lutto dell’universo (1668; A-Wn 16899), “Ha l’ocaso nell’orto,” f. 39v
2.3. Leopold I, Il Lutto dell’universo, “O voi che n’andate,” f. 26v
3.1. M.A. Ziani, Il Sepolcro nell’orto (1711; A-Wn 19131), “Cieca Gierusalemme,” f. 36
3.2. A. Draghi, Il Sole eclissato (1676; A-Wn 16878), Sinfonia, f. 5
