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Conventions of Prayer in Some 19th-Century Operas
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IN THIS ESSAY, I propose to look at the way in which liturgical forms have been accommodated on the lyric stage of the 19th century, and also at the musical and textual conventions that have developed in tandem with them. I shall base my typology of these forms on classical rather than Christian models so as to admit some neo-classical preghiere into my study, and also to address those pagan forms of prayer that persisted on the stage of the primo ottocento. One must bear in mind that there is often only a nominal difference between classical and Christian prayer, given the fact that both are predicated on archetypal human postures, and also given the fact that the primitive church made …
