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Music for the Requiem Mass is any music that accompanies the Requiem, or Mass for the Dead, in the Catholic Church.This church service has inspired hundreds of compositions, including settings by Victoria, Mozart, Berlioz, Verdi, Fauré, Dvořák, Duruflé and Britten.
Christian funeral music (1 C, 11 P) D. Albums in memory of deceased persons (38 P) R. Requiems (1 C, 36 P) S. Songs inspired by deaths (3 C, 61 P)
Officium Defunctorum was composed for the funeral of the Empress Maria. She died on February 26, 1603, and the great obsequies were performed on April 22 and 23. After Victoria made revisions and published Officium Defunctorum in 1605, he added a dedication to Margret, Maria's daughter. This piece was also Victoria's last composition before he ...
The funeral of Queen Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) in Westminster Abbey was not until 5 March 1695. Purcell composed a setting of the sixth of the seven sentences of the Anglican Burial Service ("Thou Knowest Lord", Z. 58C) for the occasion, together with the March and Canzona, Z. 780. [1]
Within this service are several texts with rubrics stating that they should be said or sung by the priest or clerks. The first few of these texts are found at the beginning of the service, while the rest are prescribed for the burial itself. These texts are typically divided into seven, and collectively known as "funeral sentences".
A dirge (Latin: dirige, nenia [1]) is a somber song or lament expressing mourning or grief, such as may be appropriate for performance at a funeral. Often taking the form of a brief hymn, dirges are typically shorter and less meditative than elegies. [2] Dirges are often slow and bear the character of funeral marches.
Funeral Sentences and Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary; Fürchte dich nicht, BWV 228; G. Der Geist hilft unser Schwachheit auf, BWV 226; Gottes Zeit ist die ...
"Song for Athene", which has a performance time of about seven minutes, is an elegy consisting of the Hebrew word alleluia ("let us praise the Lord") sung monophonically six times as an introduction to texts excerpted and modified from the funeral service of the Eastern Orthodox Church and from Shakespeare's Hamlet (probably 1599–1601). [4]