Passion

A passion is a story, a play, a piece of music or a work of visual art that the suffering of Jesus Christ has in mind. A theatrical form of passion is also passion play called.

In everyday speech, the word "passion" is also used as a synonym for "surrender" or "big bet".

Musical passion
The musical passion or passion music has undergone major development over the centuries.

Originally the music was sung in unison. Around the 10th century were the roles of Christ, the narrator, the people, and others spread over various singers and groups of singers. This is called the coral passion or responsori. The sung text is literally match any of the Gospels .

Around 1500 came the polyphonic music. The passion was music hereby amended. There were harmonies and polyphony in, which resulted in the motet passion.

Later, in the 17th and 18th centuries, wrote composers like Johann Sebastian Bach , George Frideric Handel and Georg Philipp Telemann passions in the form of an oratorio, the oratorio passion. The oratorical passion literal gospel text is interspersed with texts that consider the gospel story. The next step was the so-called. Brockes passion, a passion to texts of the Hamburg magistrateBrockes, which bijbeltekse (s) are his adaptation. Of the many oratorios Bach's St. Matthew Passion and St. John Passion, the most famous and most played. They are in time for Easter performed anywhere in the Western world. Twentieth-century passions were among others composed by Penderecki and Gubaidulina . A popular passion would be the musical Jesus Christ Superstar by Andrew Lloyd Webber could call.