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A Requiem (Latin: rest) or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead (Latin: Missa pro defunctis) or Mass of the dead (Latin: Missa defunctorum), is a Mass of the Catholic Church offered for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal.
This is a list of Latin words with derivatives in English (and other modern languages). Ancient orthography did not distinguish between i and j or between u and v. [1] Many modern works distinguish u from v but not i from j. In this article, both distinctions are shown as they are helpful when tracing the origin of English words.
requiem aeternam dona ei(s), Domine: give him/her (them) eternal rest, O Lord: From the Christian prayer Eternal Rest, said for the dead. Source of the term requiem, meaning the Mass for the Dead or a musical setting thereof. requiescat in pace (R.I.P.) let him/her rest in peace: Or "may he/she rest in peace". A benediction for the dead.
The Lacrimosa (Latin for "weeping/tearful"), is part of the Dies Irae sequence in the Catholic Requiem Mass. Its text comes from the Latin 18th and 19th stanzas of the sequence. [ 1 ] Many composers, including Mozart , Berlioz , and Verdi have set the text as a discrete movement of the Requiem .
Lacrimosa (Requiem), part of the Dies Irae sequence in the Roman Catholic Requiem Mass Lacrimosa, a movement from Grande Messe des morts (or Requiem) by Hector Berlioz; Lacrimosa, a movement from Requiem in B♭ minor by Antonín Dvořák; Lacrimosa, a movement from Requiem in D minor by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
In the same way as Church documents are referred to by their incipit (their first words in Latin), [9] Mass formulas are known by the incipit of their Introit, which is the first text in the formula. Thus a Mass for the dead is referred to a Requiem Mass, and the three Christmas Day Masses have been called Dominus dixit, Lux fulgebit and Puer ...
Eternal Rest or Requiem aeternam is a Western Christian prayer asking God: (1) to hasten the progression of the souls of the faithful departed in Purgatory to their place in Heaven (in Catholicism)
Page from the manuscript of the Requiem: In paradisum, m. 413, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. Gabriel Fauré composed his Requiem in D minor, Op. 48, between 1887 and 1890. The choral-orchestral setting of the shortened Catholic Mass for the Dead in Latin is the best-known of his large works. Its focus is on eternal rest and consolation.