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Professor Christopher Wood is a Welsh-born composer of sacred choral music, best known for his setting of the Requiem Mass (“The Wood Requiem”), his Missa Brevis, the Easter Oratorio "Holy Week" and the string orchestra piece "Aberfan", commissioned for the Last Night of the Welsh Proms in 2016.
The Five Mystical Songs are a musical composition by English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872–1958), written between 1906 and 1911. [1] The work sets four poems ("Easter" divided into two parts) by seventeenth-century Welsh poet and Anglican priest George Herbert (1593–1633), from his 1633 collection The Temple: Sacred Poems.
This is self-evident, in one sense, but “religious pictures” refers to more than just a certain range of subject matter; it means that the pictures existed to meet institutional ends. The Church commissioned artwork for three main reasons: The first was indoctrination, clear images were able to relay meaning to an uneducated person.
A flowered cross in a parish church (2006) Flowering the cross is a Western Christian tradition practiced at the arrival of Easter, in which worshippers place flowers on the bare wooden cross that was used in the Good Friday liturgy, in order to symbolize "the new life that emerges from Jesus’s death on Good Friday".
Catholics use images, such as the crucifix, the cross, in religious life and pray using depictions of saints. They also venerate images and liturgical objects by kissing, bowing, and making the sign of the cross. They point to the Old Testament patterns of worship followed by the Hebrew people as examples of how certain places and things used ...
Ride On in Majesty", [1] is a Christian hymn written by Henry Hart Milman in 1820. [2] It is a Palm Sunday hymn and refers to Matthew 21 :1–17 and Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem . [ 3 ]
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"Easter hymn" English 1739 "Christus ist erstanden! O tönt" Christ is risen! O sound Johann Weinzierl: Schniebel, Paul German 1826 paraphrase of Victimae paschali laudes "Gelobt sei Gott im höchsten Thron" Praised be God on highest throne Michael Weiße: Melchior Vulpius: German 1531 / 1609 melody later "Ihr Christen, singet hocherfreut"