Job

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Excerpt from Job: Dramatic Poem for Solo Voices, Chorus and OrchestraThe text of the poem consists of passages from the book of Job and the Psalms, grouped to form a short poetical unit. In the Bible story the cosmic background for Job's experiences is the agreement between Jehovah and Satan to try the man's faith. In the present poem the universal order, in the midst of which Job plays his part of human suffering, rebellion, and final submission, is represented by passages from the Psalms which express the permanence and glory of God and his creation. The passages which comprise the text are chosen for the mood they convey without regard to their exact place in the Bible. In the main they follow the course of the Bible story and suggest the argument of the original, but the words of the Bible are sometimes put in the mouth of a different person, and in some of the musical units the words are assembled from several parts of the Bible text.The dramatic motive of the poem is the development of the moods of Job, distress under suffering, rebellion, doubt, and final submissive understanding of the will of God. In emotional contrast with him is the Woman of Israel, who represents the spirit of unquestioning faith. The Friend stands like the three friends of the Bible story, for the spirit of conventional piety. The chorus represents superhuman voices which declare the glory of God, against their sustained mood of adoration and praise beats the contest of human emotions. The impersonal universal spirit of the chorus is conveyed m the musrc by simple diatonic harmonies, the warp upon which the solo parts are woven in modern chromatic design.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.