Year: 2017
Type: article
Abstract: In the 1960s, the British composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) momentarily abandoned opera for the more intimate genre of what he called his Parables for Church performance. The first one, his 1964 Curlew River, was inspired by a Japanese Noh play to which he gave a Christian slant, as it illustrates the wonders of performing Faith. The following two, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal Son, were directly inspired by Scripture, from which the parable as a literary genre derives. Acco...
Source: Miranda
DOI: 10.4000/miranda.9879
Author: Gilles Couderc
Institution: Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès
Language: English
Subfield: Music
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4235601271