TY - BOOK AU - Macardle,Peter TI - The St Gall passion play: music and performance T2 - Ludus SN - 9789401205443 AV - PT1448.S23 M33 2007 U1 - 792.16 22 PY - 2007/// CY - Amsterdam, New York PB - Rodopi KW - St. Galler Passionsspiel KW - Criticism, Textual KW - Passion-plays KW - Songs and music KW - History and criticism KW - Liturgical drama KW - Germany KW - Rhineland KW - 500-1400 KW - Theater KW - History KW - Medieval, 500-1500 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 397-460); Preliminary Material -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The Text and the Problem -- Liturgy and Localization -- Approaches -- ‘Cantat’ – ‘dicat’ – ‘respondeat’ Directions and Performers -- A note on the transcription and editing of text and notation -- Localizing the Play -- Before the Passion -- The Passion (1) -- The Passion (2) -- The Resurrection and the Harrowing of Hell -- The Empty Tomb -- Conclusions -- Bibliography; Available to subscribing member institutions only N2 - 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 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401205443 ER -