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Abstract

Francisco Bances Candamo’s Sacramental Act is a work after the genre’speak. It lacks coherency in regard to its topic and the long-winded linesdeprives the genre of a very essential factor, speed. Perhaps for that reason,Candamos’s Sacramental Act and Calderon’s Sacramental Act were presentedto King Carlos II for Corpus in 1691, and late Calderon’s work was selectedby the King to be performed. Candamo embellished the setting in a grandioseBaroque theme, possibly to cover what the content lacked. He uses globes andwagons that represent the universe and the life, respectively, and thusdescribing the heavenly and earthly worlds. Moreover, the author maximizes themusical effect that chorus has in classic tragedies, making the sacramental actsimilar to a musical play. By introducing different and rich musical elements,Candamo’s sacramental act provides fresher, fancier and more dramaticperformance to the audience who were used to watching the conventionalsacramental act in the same season every year. Candamo adapts the messagedelivery function of Greek tragedy’s chorus into the priest’s role to holdCatholic mass and to give a sermon. Through chorus, the audience interactedwith the characters, and in the same way, the believers in mass would respondto the service, playing the role of an ideal audience. In the middle part of theplay, the chorus was given two extreme characteristics of good and evil, andplaying a mediator between the two forces. Candamo’s sacramental act sharedcertain characteristics with Catholic church’ mass. As Baroque’s mass adoptsdramatic taste, Candamo gives the sacramental act a form of religious ceremony. Candamo, thus, emerged as an artist who realized the symbolictransformation of chorus of a sacramental act to a genre with Catholicizedmusical background which the previous generations never experienced.