liturgical drama in a sentence
Examples
- Tavener says, " that the texts from the Byzantine Good Friday service would be the right thing to use _ the liturgical drama is inbuilt.
- Major liturgical celebrations were often dramatic to a considerable degree, featuring elaborate processions, tableaux vivants and liturgical drama; the Missa Aurea is the best-known example.
- Popular biblical dramas of the Middle Ages-including liturgical drama, Passion Plays and the Corpus Christi cycles or Mystery Play-are the originators of modern Passion Plays.
- It dates from the last period of his career when he entered government work and was requested by Madame de Maintenon to return to liturgical drama.
- She is the first composer for whom a biography exists and one of her works, the Ordo Virtutem is one of the first known liturgical dramas.
- Another influence, especially in smaller churches, was liturgical drama, and no doubt also those scenes which lent themselves to a readily identifiable image tended to be preferred.
- It is related to certain other liturgical dramas, such, for example, as the Feast of the Ass, the Play of Daniel, and the Office of the Star.
- The first is one of the plays in the Fleury Playbook, a 13th-century manuscript containing ten liturgical dramas; the text is by Daniel at the court of Belshazzar.
- Although short, this excerpt of text would later snowball into a huge body of religious medieval plays, and evolve into various genres, such as liturgical drama and mystery plays.
- Unlike the liturgical dramas, which have survived in large numbers, at least as far as the scripts are concerned, we have only cursory descriptions of earlier court dramatic spectacles.