Around the Sacred Drama (II module)

The topic of this course are various forms of religious drama, existing in the musical culture of Europe from the eleventh to the eighteenth century. In diachronical review of subsequent species of this group there are analyzed their relationships with the liturgy and secular forms of music drama. Classes are led as consevatory workshop with the analysis of the characteristics of formal and stylistic genres on selected examples.

Classroom

1. The Liturgical Drama

2. The Passion

3. The Morality

4. The Ludus

5. The rappresentatione

6. The Sacred Opera

7. The Early Oratorio

1.

Officium peregrinorum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5qfOtcArM8&list=OLAK5uy_ntFuCbyI7ZlM7NyMCMe7DwXayEoybniqQ

2.

Ludus Passionis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y296RvcJQ2g

3.

Hildegarda z Bingen: Ordo Virtutum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9cvH9TFyr8

4.

Ludus Danielis

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZRzXvLv9xw

5.

Emilio Cavalieri: Rappresentatione d'anima e di corpo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVKNi3kRF6k

6.

Stefano Landi: Il Sant'Alessio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyVSVYt_DMk

7.

Giacomo Carissimi: Jephthe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsNX0UHv2U0

1

Andrzej Dąbrówka, Teatr i sacrum w średniowieczu, Toruń 2013

Julian Lewański, Średniowieczne gatunki dramatyczno-teatralne, z. 1: Dramat liturgiczny, [w:] Poetyka: zarys encyklopedyczny, Wrocław 1966

2

Tadeusz Kornaś, Schola Teatru Węgajty: dramat liturgiczny, Kraków: Homini, 2012

Liturgiczne łacińskie dramatyzacje Wielkiego Tygodnia XI-XVI w. ed. Julian Lewański, Lublin: Towarzystwo Naukowe Katolickiego Uniwersytetu Lubelskiego, 1999

3

Błażej Matusiak, Hildegarda z Bingen : teologia muzyki, Kraków: Homini 2003

Eckehard Simon, Hildegard of Bingen (1098–1179) and her Music Drama Ordo virtutum: A Critical Review of Scholarship and Some New Suggestions, “European Medieval Drama” 15/1 (2011), s. 93-114

4

Magdalena Mijalska, Wprowadzenie do Ludus Danielis. Przewodnik po kilku kręgach teatru liturgicznego „Konteksty” 2007 (LXI), s. 38–42

Wiliam M. Smoldon, The Music of the Medieval Church Dramas, London : Oxford University Press 1980

5

Howard E. Smither, A History of the Oratorio, Vol. I, The Oratorio in the Baroque Era, Chapel Hill - London : The University of North Carolina Press, 2002

Zygmunt i Anna Szweykowscy, Rappresentazione di anima e di corpo Cavalieriego, Muzyka dla sceny, “Muzyka”, XXVIII/1 (1983), s. 13-66

6

Margaret Murata, Stefano Landi [in:] Grove Music Online

Piotr Kamiński: Tysiąc i jedna opera. T. 1. Warszawa: Polskie Wydawnictwo Muzyczne SA, 2008

7

Graham Dixon, Carissimi, Oxford – New York : Oxford University Press 1986

Bruce W. Bishop, Story of Jephtah: An Oratorio by Giacomo Carissimi English Translation and Dramatic Staging, University of Arizona Diss. 2007

The student is familiar with the basic forms of religious stage music. Is able to collect and present synthetic information on a selected topic. He can actively participate in academic discussions.

During the semester, the students are asked for choosing the selected topic and present it during the lessons in 2-3 person teams. The note depends from the activity of the audience during the lessons, proportional to the number of the proposed question.