Music and Performance in Three French Hagiographic Mystery Plays

• Autores: Vincent Corrigan, Vicky Hamblin
• Localización: Medieval English theatre, ISSN 0143-3784, Nº. 35, 2013, págs. 95-139
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • While it has rarely been the object of scholarly research, music was an integral part of French mystery plays of the late medieval era. This study focuses on three similarly-constructed French hagiographic plays to compare and contrast their instrumental, vocal and diabolic musical components. In both the Mystery of Saint Martin by André de La Vigne and the Jeu de saint Estienne pape et martire by Nicolas Loupvent, music not only accompanied but contributed to the narrative and to the pacing of the performance. The Mystery of Saint Lawrence, however, focuses only minimal attention to its music.