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At one point in the show, according to the chronicles, an actor dressed as a woman in white satin clothes, personifying the Church of Constantinople (according to one hypothesis, played by Olivier de la Marche himself [7]) entered the hall of the banquet riding on an elephant, to recite a "complaint and lamentation in a piteous and feminine ...
The Basilica of the Holy Cross in Warsaw in Warsaw, where the devotion was first held in 1704, as painted by Bernardo Bellotto, 1778 [1]. Gorzkie żale (Polish pronunciation: [ˈɡɔʂkʲe ˈʐalɛ] Lenten (or Bitter Lamentations) is a Catholic devotion containing many hymns that developed out of Poland in the 18th century.
[3] [4] He was influenced by the French colonial education system, the aim of which was to assimilate the colonised people and was part of the broader civilising mission. This system was designed to orient local Malagasy populations towards the French colonial project , promoting strong ties to the French language , as well as French ...
The lyrics were written by German romantic poet Ludwig Uhland in 1809. Its immediate inspiration was the deployment of Badener troops against the Tyrolean Rebellion . In 1825, the Lieder composer Friedrich Silcher set it to music, based on the tune of a Swiss folk song , in honor of those who fell during the more recent Wars of Liberation ...
Parce Domine is a Lenten lament.The first half of the text comes from one of the responsories designated to be sung by the choir during the imposition of the ashes on Ash Wednesday.
The Lament for Nippur, or the Lament for Nibru, is a Sumerian lament, also known by its incipit tur 3 me nun-e ("After the cattle pen..."). [2] It is dated to the Old Babylonian Empire (c. 1900–1600 BCE). [3] It is preserved in Penn Museum on tablet CBS13856. [4]
Significantly, it is the first Neapolitan song to be translated to Italian lyrics. Its transcriber, who is often miscredited as its composer, was the son of the French-born Italian composer and collector of songs Guillaume Louis Cottrau (1797–1847). Various sources credit A. Longo with the music, 1835. [citation needed]
Leonard Bernstein's Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah was composed in 1942.Jeremiah is a programmatic work, following the Biblical story of the prophet Jeremiah.The third movement uses texts from the Book of Lamentations in the Hebrew Bible, sung by a mezzo-soprano.