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Agnus Dei: Lamb of God: Refers both to the innocence of a lamb and to Christ being a sacrificial lamb after the Jewish religious practice. It is the Latin translation from John 1:36, when St. John the Baptist exclaimes "Ecce Agnus Dei!" ("Behold the Lamb of God!") upon seeing Jesus Christ. alea iacta est: the die has been cast
Martin Luther wrote the words of the hymn as a translation of the Latin Agnus Dei from the liturgy of the mass. The tune, Zahn 58, [ 1 ] was taken from an older liturgy. The hymn was first published in 1528 and has been the basis for several musical settings by composers such as Bach , Mendelssohn and Hessenberg .
The text of "Dona nobis pacem" is a short prayer for peace from the Agnus Dei of the Latin mass. [1] [2] [3] In the round for three parts, it is sung twice in every line. [4] The melody has been passed orally. [4] It has traditionally been attributed to Mozart but without evidence. [1] English-language hymnals usually mark it "Traditional". [5]
Dona nobis pacem (Latin for "Grant us peace") is a phrase in the Agnus Dei section of the mass. The phrase, in isolation, has been appropriated for a number of musical works, which include: The phrase, in isolation, has been appropriated for a number of musical works, which include:
Agnus Dei is the Latin name under which the "Lamb of God" is honoured within Christian liturgies descending from the historic Latin liturgical tradition, including those of Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism and Anglicanism. It is the name given to a specific prayer that occurs in these liturgies, and is the name given to the music pieces that ...
Agnus Dei, whose Latin text comes from the last movement of the same name in the Catholic Mass. The soprano introduces the theme, singing it over the orchestra and choir. The text translates as "Lamb of God, grant us peace." Beat! Beat! Drums!, is based on the first Whitman poem. The text describes the drums and bugles of war bursting through ...
The fifth movement is the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) of the Requiem. Rutter uses a steady beat on one note, similar to the timpani of the first movement. The Latin text is contrasted with another biblical passage, "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live" from the Book of Job. The call Agnus Dei in measure 58 is the dynamic ...
The length, and the sustained notes of the cantus firmus, refer both to the "cry for mercy" aspect of the Agnus Dei text, which cries to the Lamb of God to take away the sins of the world, and to the trumpet motif and text "On a fait partout crier" from the original L'homme armé tune, calling the listeners to arms. [6]