“…Noye's fludde.…”

“…Noye's fludde.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Joseph Haydn : The creation : the influence of Paradise lost -- Darius Milhaud : Cain and Abel : Biblical word, logos or pathos -- Benjamin Britten : Noyes fludde : miracle and mystery plays -- Igor Stravinsky : Abraham and Isaac : complex and untranslatable ambiguity -- Arnold Schoenberg : Jacob's ladder : music and philosophy -- Andrew Lloyd Webber : Joseph and the amazing technicolor dreamcoat : the world of popular culture -- George Frederick Handel : Israel in Egypt ; Rossini : Moses in Egypt ; Spiritual : Go down Moses -- Ernest Bloch : sacred service : from sacrifice to liturgy -- Max Stern : Balaam and the ass : a commentary on humanity -- Max Stern : Ha'azinu (Song of Moses) ; Schoenberg : Moses and Aaron -- Joshua fit de battle o' Jericho : biblical folksong and the spiritual -- Giacomo Carissimi : Jephte : origins of oratorio -- Camille Saint Seans : Samson and Delilah : biblical opera -- Max Stern : prophet or king : a prophetic episode -- Johann Kuhnau : David and Goliath : tone painting at the keyboard -- Arthur Honegger : King David : redemption as popular realism -- George Frederick Handel : Zadok the priest : anthem and motet -- Felix Mendelssohn : Elijah : biblical music drama -- Giuseppe Verdi : Nabucco : pathos as eternal truth -- Palestrina, Bach, Mozart, Verdi, and Lewandowski : images of angelic praise -- Leonard Bernstein : Jeremiah symphony : prophecy as subtext -- Ezekiel saw de wheel : theophany as vernacular -- Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi : works list -- Ben-Zion Schenker : Eshet hayil (Woman of valor) ; Schein : Israelis Brunlein -- Ralph Vaughan Williams : Job, a masque for dancing : metaphysical image in lithograph -- Yehezkel Braun : Cantici canticorum chapter 3 ; Vaughan Williams : Flos Campi -- Kurt Weill : The eternal road (excerpt) : convergence of traditions -- Ernst Krenek : Lamentations Jeremiae Prophetae : Catholic liturgy, complexity, and cogitation -- Ernest Bloch : Schelomo ; Brahms : Four serious songs -- U' Mordecai Yatza & A wicked, wicked man : school and community -- William Walton : Belshazzar's feast : choral antiphony and jazz -- Works lists : Ezra and Nehemiah -- Works lists : Chronicles 1 & 2.…”