| Contents |
Acknowledgements -- List of Works with Links to audio and scores -- List of Musical Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part One: Oratorios -- Chapter 1, Seventeenth-eighteenth century : Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725): La Giuditta (two versions: 1694, 1697) ; Antonio Vivaldi (1675-1741): Juditha Triumphans (1716) ; Thomas Arne (1710-1778): Judith (1761, 1764) ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791): Betulia Liberata (1771) -- Chapter 2, Nineteenth-twentieth century : Henry David Leslie (1822-1896): Judith (1858) ; C. Hubert Parry (1848-1918): Judith, or The Regeneration of Manasseh (1888); Paul Hillemacher (1852-1933): Judith, Sc̐uene Lyrique (1876) ; Arthur Honegger (1892-1955): Judith, Drame Biblique (1925) -- Part Two: Operas -- Chapter 3, Influential nineteenth-century plays : Friedrich Hebbel Judith (1840) ; Paolo Giacometti Giuditta (1857) -- Chapter 4, Nineteenth-century Operas : Achille Peri (1812-1880): Giuditta (1860) ; Domenico Silveri (1818-1900): Giuditta (1885) ; Charles Lefebvre (1843-1917): Judith, drame lyrique en 3 acts 4 scenes (1877) ; Alexander Serov (1820-1871): Iudif (1863) -- Chapter 5, Twentieth-century Operas George Whitfield Chadwick (1854-1931): Judith (1901); Emil von Reznicek (1860-1945): Holofernes (1922) ; Eugene Goossens (1893-1962): Judith (1927) ; Siegfried Matthus (1934 -- ): Judith (1984) -- Table and Conclusion -- Bibliography of musical works (chronological) -- Bibliography. |
| Abstract |
"This volume focuses on the story of Judith as presented by composers, librettists and playwrights over four centuries. Helen Leneman analyzes numerous examples of music, librettos and the librettists' views of Judith - strongly influenced by societal attitudes of their time - and how these librettos in turn suggest unexpected ways of understanding biblical women and their stories"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Leneman, Helen, The voice of Judith in 300 years of oratorio and opera London : T&T Clark, [2021] 9780567687319 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | Drama. |
| LCCN | 2020052694 |
| ISBN | 9780567687302 |
| ISBN | 0567687309 hardback |
| ISBN | (pdf) |
