TY  - BOOK
AU  - Starr,Mark
AU  - Letellier,Robert
AU  - Starr,Mark
AU  - Letellier,Robert
TI  - Giacomo Meyerbeer: Jephtas Gelübde (Jephtha's Vow) – Vocal/Piano Score
SN  - 9781443870245
AV  - ML410.M61 -- .G533 2013eb 
U1  - 782.1092 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Newcastle-upon-Tyne
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
KW  - Meyerbeer, Giacomo, -- 1791-1864
KW  - Jephthah -- (Biblical judge)
KW  - Operas -- Scores
KW  - Operas -- Librettos
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- LIBRETTO -- OVERTURE -- ACT I -- Akt 2 -- ACT 3 -- APPENDIX
N2  - Meyerbeer’s first opera, Jephtas Gelübde, has a libretto by the German academic Alois Schreiber, based on a Biblical theme taken from chapters 11-12 of the Book of Judges. The story centres on the vow the ancient Israelite Judge made to God in return for victory over the enemy: "If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand, then whatever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious . . . I will offer him up for a burnt offering". The first person he was fatefull
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