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The Quattro pezzi sacri (Italian pronunciation: [ˈkwattro ˈpɛttsi ˈsaːkri], Four Sacred Pieces) are choral works by Giuseppe Verdi.Written separately during the last decades of the composer's life and with different origins and purposes, they were nevertheless published together in 1898 by Casa Ricordi.
Religious music (also sacred music) is a type of music that is performed or composed for religious use or through religious influence. It may overlap with ritual music, which is music, sacred or not, performed or composed for or as a ritual. Religious songs have been described as a source of strength, as well as a means of easing pain ...
Dmitry Bortniansky (1751–1825) was the most prolific composer of choral concertos.. The choral concerto (Russian: хоровой концерт, romanized: khorovoy kontsert, Ukrainian: Хоровий концерт, romanized: khoroviy kontsert), occasionally known as vocal concerto [citation needed] or church concerto [citation needed]) is a genre of sacred music which arose in the Russian ...
Quatre petites prières de saint François d'Assise, FP 142 (Four small prayers of Saint Francis of Assisi) [1] is a sacred choral work by Francis Poulenc for a cappella men's chorus, composed in 1948. Written on a request by Poulenc's relative who was a Franciscan friar, the work was premiered by the monks of Champfleury.
Editors at AllMusic rated this album 4.5 out of 5 stars, with critic James Manheim writing the collaboration between Whitacre and Voces8 "would be noteworthy on its face" and specifically highlights The Sacred Veil as "a major piece of choral music that will be around for decades" and Whitacre's composition "forges a distinctively dark language that is related to but distinct from his usual ...
The revision of music in the liturgy took place in March 1967, with the passage of Musicam Sacram ("Instruction on music in the liturgy"). In paragraph 46 of this document, it states that music could be played during the sacred liturgy on "instruments characteristic of a particular people." Previously the pipe organ was used for accompaniment.
In 1925, he performed his Piano Sonata at the ISCM World Music Days there, and in 1934 conducted his Capriccio with his son as soloist, as parts of the Venice Biennale. [3] Stravinsky is even interred in Venice on the island of San Michele , as is the man who brought him to international fame with the 1910 commission of L'Oiseau de feu , Sergei ...
A part song, part-song or partsong is a form of choral music that consists of a song to a secular or non-liturgical sacred text, [1] written or arranged for several vocal parts. Part songs are commonly sung by an SATB choir, but sometimes for an all-male or all-female ensemble. [ 2 ]