The words medieval opera have been bantered around in reference to medieval mystery plays, the crude pageants staged by various monasteries and trade guilds both to entertain and provide instruction about the content of some biblical stories. As the Bible had yet to be translated into any vernacular languages and services were conducted primarily in Latin, the mystery play was an immediate method through which the ordinary person could get a sense of the content of the Bible. Although music was part of the usual mix of a ...
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The words medieval opera have been bantered around in reference to medieval mystery plays, the crude pageants staged by various monasteries and trade guilds both to entertain and provide instruction about the content of some biblical stories. As the Bible had yet to be translated into any vernacular languages and services were conducted primarily in Latin, the mystery play was an immediate method through which the ordinary person could get a sense of the content of the Bible. Although music was part of the usual mix of a medieval mystery play, a few were highly invested in music, and the Ludus Danielis (The Play of Daniel), copied around 1230 into British Library manuscript Egerton 2615 but dating to the middle of the twelfth century, is one of the earliest and most detailed sources of this kind. Given with some indications of instrumentation and stage action, the Ludus Danielis still plays well in the twenty first century and has been revived numerous times, first famously by Noah Greenberg in the...
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