Jephté et la représentation sacrée en musique du xvii^e au xix^e siècle, une profanation ?

This article studies, at the musical level, the way in which mythological elements codified the treatment of Jephté on the lyrical scene (opera, oratorio, and cantate). The early eighteenth-century didactic approach to para-liturgical scenes disappeared gradually, to be replaced by a secularisation, which became profanation by the beginning of the nineteenth century. The sacrifice of the daughter of Jepthé was added to that of Iphigénie, a myth which evolves towards redemption in line with the codes of sensibility.