The Standard Oratorios: Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers

A Handbook
BY GEORGE P. UPTON
CHICAGO A. C. McCLURG AND COMPANY 1893
Copyright By A. C. McClurg and Co. A.D. 1886.
As in the case of the Standard Operas, the work has been prepared for the general public rather than for musicians, and as far as practicable, technical terms have been avoided. Description, not criticism, has been the purpose of the volume, and the various works are described as fully as the necessarily brief space allotted to each would allow. The utmost pains have been taken to secure historical and chronological accuracy, inasmuch as these details are nearly always matters of controversy. The favor which has been so generously accorded to the Standard Operas leads the compiler to believe that the Standard Oratorios will also be welcomed by those who enjoy the sacred music of the great masters, and that it will prove a valuable addition to other works of musical reference.
G. P. U.
Chicago, September, 1886.
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Rowe forth away when thou liste, And get thee another wif.
Noah expostulates with her in vain, grows furiously indignant, and bids her
Come in, wif, in twenty devill ways, Or alles stand thee without.
Her friends the gossips entreat her to remain with them, and have a carousal over a pottel full of malmsey; but at last Shem makes a virtue of necessity and forces her into the ark, as the following scene shows:--