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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 ...
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.
Schütz, the Dresden court composer. Geistliche Chormusik (Sacred choral music) is a collection of motets on German texts for choir by Heinrich Schütz.It was printed in Dresden in 1648 as his Opus Undecimum (Op. 11), and comprises 29 individual settings for five to seven voices, which were assigned numbers 369 to 397 in the Schütz-Werke-Verzeichnis (SWV).
Thomas Tallis, a prominent musician of the Chapel Royal at the time, was among the first to write sacred music in English. [ 7 ] "If Ye Love Me" is a setting for an a cappella choir of four voice parts, and it is a noted example of this Reformation compositional style, essentially homophonic [ citation needed ] but with some elaboration and ...
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.
The Sanctus was sung at the coronation of George VI in 1937, and the first of many recordings of the complete Mass was made by the Fleet Street Choir under Thomas Lawrence in 1942. [13] Though once considered dry and of solely academic interest, [14] it is now acknowledged to be a masterpiece of English sacred music. [4]
"Hear my prayer, O Lord", Z. 15, [1] is an eight-part choral anthem by the English composer Henry Purcell (1659–1695). [2] The anthem is a setting of the first verse of Psalm 102 [2] in the version of the Book of Common Prayer. Purcell composed it c. 1682, at the beginning of his tenure as Organist and Master of the Choristers for Westminster ...
A more elaborate polychoral setting, directly related to the music of the Venetian School, and often modeled after the work of Giovanni Gabrieli. The chorale cantata , culminating in the works of J.S. Bach , evolved out of the chorale concerto, and became a popular liturgical form in Germany for more than a hundred years.