Orientalism and the Continuation of the English Oratorio
Elissa Keck
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Orientalism and the Continuation of the English Oratorio

Representation in William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast

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Orientalist analyses in music exploded the field of musicology in the 1980s and 90s. However, examination of Orientalism in sacred genres remains lacking. In this study, Elissa Keck investigates aspects of Orientalism within the English oratorio genre, specifically William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast (1931). Keck argues that this oratorio reflects Orientalist ideologies through binary opposition that perpetuate the predominantly negative stereotypes of the Middle East. Examining the social, political, and musical context for Belshazzar's Feast in interwar England, Keck draws on eighteenth thro...