Tavener says, " that the texts from the Byzantine Good Friday service would be the right thing to use _ the liturgical drama is inbuilt.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
30.
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.
