Skip to main content. Hymnary Friends, Please pardon this brief interruption, and please consider a gift today to support the work of Hymnary. On behalf of the entire Hymnary. Holy Thursday, Good Friday…. Lenten Music for Manuals, Set 1. Organ Moderately Easy Lent. Especially suited for amateur organists, but also appealing change-of-pace for advanced players. Newly edited, this haunting setting of the tragic Aquinas text is perfect for Holy Thursday. The Art of Hymn Playing: Now includes a Bonus CD!
Charles Callahan is not only known as a respected composer and recitalist, but is also known as a creative church musician. His years of leading worship from the console are…. Seven Hymn Preludes for Organ. Requiring only a small, classically designed instrument, this grouping of hymn preludes is meant to provide accessible, well-crafted, and interesting organ music for worship or recital. Six Meditations on Plainsong Melodies. Mildly French in style. Multiplicity of uses throughout the Church Year. A chant from French chanter,[1] from Latin cantare, "to sing" [2] is the iterative speaking or singing of words or sounds, often primarily on one or two main pitches called reciting tones.
Chants may range from a simple melody involving a limited set of notes to highly complex musical structures, often including a great deal of repetition of musical subphrases, such as Great Responsories and Offertories of Gregorian chant. Chant may be considered speech, music, or a heightened or stylized form of speech. In the later Middle Ages some religious chant evolved into song forming one of the roots of later Western music.
Chant as a spiritual practice Chanting e. Like prayer, chant may be a component of either personal or group practice. Manuscript copy from the papacy of Pope Leo X showing the opening Kyrie.
A late work, probably composed or assembled around , it was the most popular of his masses in the 16th century. Like most musical settings of the mass Ordinary, it is in five sections, or movements: Kyrie Gloria Credo Sanctus Agnus Dei It uses different plainsong chants for each movement, and is a paraphrase mass, one in which the original chants are elaborated, broken up, passed between voices, or sung in different voices simultaneously.
The mass is one of only four that Josquin based on plainsong, and probably the second to last the others are the Missa Gaudeamus, a relatively early work, the Missa Ave Two months earlier, the Eucharist is observed on Maundy Thursday in a sombre atmosphere leading to Good Friday. The liturgy on that day also commemorates Christ's washing of the disciples' feet, the institution of the priesthood and the agony in the Garden of Gethsemane. The feast of Corpus Christi was established to create a feast focused solely on the Holy Eucharist emphasizing the joy of the Eucharist being the body and blood of Jesus Christ.
The Phrygian mode pronounced can refer to three different musical modes: The octave species scale underlying the ancient-Greek Phrygian tonos in its diatonic genus corresponds to the medieval and modern Dorian mode. In Greek music theory, the harmonia given this name was based on a tonos, in turn based on a scale or octave species built from a tetrachord which, in its diatonic genus, consisted of a series of rising intervals of a whole tone, followed by a semitone, followed by a whole tone.
In the chromatic genus, this is a minor third followed by two semitones. In the enharmonic genus, it is a major third and two quarter tones. This melody for the traditional song "Pop Goes the Weasel" is monophonic as long as it is performed without chordal accompaniment. Many folk songs and traditional songs are monophonic. A melody is also considered to be monophonic if a group of singers e. If an entire melody is played by two or more instruments or sung by a choir with a fixed interval, such as a perfect fifth, it is also said to be monophony or "monophonic".
The Musical texture of a song or musical piece is determined by assessing whether varying components are used, such as an accompaniment part or polyphonic melody lines tw Venantius Honorius Clementianus Fortunatus c. Some historians, such as D. This theory is suggested because there is evidence of Fortunatus speaking warmly about one of the bishops there, Bishop Paul of Aquileia.
Other scholars, such as Judith George, suggest that his family never moved to Aquileia, pointing out that the poet speaks more of Duplavis than any other place regarding his childhood. Thomas Aquinas, the 13th-century Dominican friar and theologian who formalised the "Five Ways" intended to demonstrate God's existence.
Thomas Aquinas in his book Summa Theologica. The principle of double effect—also known as the rule of double effect; the doctrine of double effect, often abbreviated as DDE or PDE, double-effect reasoning; or simply double effect—is a set of ethical criteria which Christian philosophers, and some others, have advocated for evaluating the permissibility of acting when one's otherwise legitimate act for example, relieving a terminally ill patient's pain may also cause an effect one would otherwise be obliged to avoid sedation and a slightly shortened life.
The first known example of double-effect reasoning is Thomas Aquinas' treatment of homicidal self-defense, in his work Summa Theologica. After the liturgical reforms of Vatican II, Pope Paul VI presented a document as a "minimum repertoire of Gregorian chant" [1]which the faithful should learn to sing.
In promulgating the booklet, the Congregation for Divine Worship stated that the book would be "extremely useful if the faithful learn the chants contained in the volume, as the Pope and the Congregation for Divine Worship intend. History Bruckner composed the motet in the fall of at the end of his stay in Kronstorf or at the beginning of his stay in St. The original manuscript, which was dedicated to the St. Florian Abbey, is stored in the archive of the abbey.
The bars 24 to 34, which Bruckner put as optional, were removed in the first edition. This early Tantum ergo, which gives a feeling of angelic The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Unlike other musical radicals such as Richard Wagner and Hugo Wolf, Bruckner showed extreme humility before other musicians, Wagner in particular. This apparent dichotomy between Bruckner the person and Bruckner the composer hampers efforts to describe his life in a way that gives a straightforward context for his music.
Since the beginning of its composition and it being set to music, the "Adoro te devote" was chanted as an Eucharistic Hymn during the Saint Mass in honorem SS. Sacramenti in honour of the Most Blessed Sacrament , as it was written in the Latin manuscripts. So it was also chanted for the Eucharistic adoration. Strictly speaking, Aquinas seems to have used it also as a private prayer, for a daily adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
The "Adoro te devote" is one of the medieval poetic compositions, being used as spoken prayers and also as chanted hymns, which were preserved in the Missale Romanum published in following the Council of Trent — The "Adoro te devote" is still sung today, though its use is optiona This concept is the inclination of humanity at creation to do evil or violate the will of God. The yetzer hara is not the product of original sin as in Christian theology, but the tendency of humanity to misuse the natural survival needs of the physical body.
Therefore, the natural need Lithograph of Kaspar Ett by Josef Kriehuber.
Life In he completed his secondary studies at the "Paedagogium" in Munich, known today as the Wilhelmsgymnasium. Ett studied at the Electoral Seminar in Munich and in became the court organist at St. Ett is also credited in the revival of choral music from the 16th to the 18th century. He was the music teacher of King Maximilian II. A street was named after Kaspar Ett in Eresing. His grave is located in the Old South Cemetery in Munich.
Juan de Urrede c. He was born Johannes de Wreede in Bruges.
One of his compositions for four voices was widely performed in the sixteenth century, and became the basis for a number of keyboard works and masses by Spanish composers. Although he wrote sacred songs, he was better known for courtly songs. A catalectic line is a metrically incomplete line of verse, lacking a syllable at the end or ending with an incomplete foot. One form of catalexis is headlessness, where the unstressed syllable is dropped from the beginning of the line. Making a meter catalectic can drastically change the feeling of the poem, and catalexis is often used to achieve a certain effect.
The first is in trochaic tetrameter a trochaic dimeter in ancient terms, as a Greek trochaic metron is a doubled 'trochee' , and the second in trochaic tetrameter catalectic or headless iambic tetrameter. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, B Pervading imitation refers to a way of organizing a piece of music in which all voices sing the same melodic material in sequence.
Voices enter one by one at points of imitation and sing the same melodic material although they begin at different pitch levels. Pervading imitation emerged in the early Renaissance and was widely used by composers like Josquin in Missa pange lingua, and Thomas Crecquillon. Anton Bruckner This is a list of compositions by Anton Bruckner. Bruckner is best known for his symphonic works; there are 11 symphonies the last with an unfinished finale , most of them in several versions. He also composed a few other smaller orchestral works one overture, one march and three 'small orchestral pieces' , and sketched another symphony.
Bruckner also composed a considerable amount of choral music. There are 59 religious works, of which there are 17 larger choral works seven masses, two requiems, one religious cantata, five psalm settings, one Te Deum hymn and one Magnificat hymn , 40 smaller choral works 16 hymns, six antiphons, six graduals, three settings of the offertorium, two chorale, two religious elegies, two Libera me, one litany and two other motets , of which a few are in two or three versions, and two aequali for three trombones.
In addition, Bruckner made sketches for two other masses and another requiem. Bruckner also composed 44 Weltliche Chorwerke secular choral works , se The Summa Theologiae written — and also known as the Summa Theologica or simply the Summa is the best-known work of Thomas Aquinas c. Although unfinished, the Summa is "one of the classics of the history of philosophy and one of the most influential works of Western literature".
It is a compendium of all of the main theological teachings of the Catholic Church. It presents the reasoning for almost all points of Christian theology in the West. The Summa's topics follow a cycle: The Summa is Aquinas' "most perfect work, the fruit of his mature years, in which the thought of his whole life is condensed".
The five ways, however, occupy only one Poetry took numerous forms in medieval Europe, for example, lyric and epic poetry. Among the most famous of secular poetry is Carmina Burana, a manuscript collection of poems. Examples of medieval poetry Old English religious poetry includes the poem Christ by Cynewulf and the poem The Dream of the Rood, preserved in both manuscript form and on the Ruthwell Cross.
We do have some secular poetry; in fact a great deal of medieval literature was written in verse, including the Old English epic Beowulf. Scholars are fairly sure, based on a few fragments and on references in historic texts, that much lost secular poetry was set to music, and was spread by traveling minstrels, or bards, across Europe.
Thus, the few poems written eventually became ballads or lays, and never made it to being recited without song or other music He was an immensely influential philosopher, theologian, and jurist in the tradition of scholasticism, within which he is also known as the Doctor Angelicus and the Doctor Communis. He was the foremost classical proponent of natural theology and the father of Thomism; of which he argued that reason is found in God.
His influence on Western thought is considerable, and much of modern philosophy developed or opposed his ideas, particularly in the areas of ethics, natural law, metaphysics, and political theory. Unlike many currents in the Church of the time,[11] Thomas embraced several ideas put forward by Aristotle—whom he called "the Philosopher"—and attempted to synthesize Aristotelian philosophy with the principles of Christ Verbum supernum prodiens is a Catholic hymn in long metre by St Thomas Aquinas.
The last two verses form a hymn on their own as well, O salutaris hostia, which is sung at the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.
There is also an unrelated Latin Nativity hymn of the same name. Juan Navarro of Seville, hence the epithet Hispalensis Marchena c. Juan Navarro of Cadiz, c. In he was appointed maestro de capilla of the Cathedral of Avila, then in of Salamanca where he was appointed without being required to History Bruckner composed this motet on 24 July , five years before his more famous motet,[1][2][3] as a present for the name-day of Ignaz Traumihler, choirmaster of St. The original manuscript is lost, but the score dedicated to Traumihler is stored in the archive of the St.
It begins in Andante with a fugato. He was first organist and vice maestro di cappella of the Cappella Musicale del Santo in Padua till his retirement in Grassi held the classes of organ and history and aesthetics of music of Liceo Musicale Pollini. Compositions 8 Pezzi per organo, op. Cinque pezzi per armonio od organo, op. The lyrics were written by the Rev. Dorsey, who also adapted the melody. Origin The melody is credited to Dorsey, drawn extensively from the hymn tune, "Maitland".
This tune originally appeared in hymnals and tune books as "Cross and Crown"; the name "Maitland" appears as early as History Bruckner composed these two motets in for the funeral of his friend Josef Seiberl. Sucht nur Gottes Reich und die Gerechtigkeit. You, who go today with me to the tomb And are now convened by my corps, Do not stick your soul and heart to this vanity! Look only for Gods kingdom and for justice. The first setting in E-flat major is bar long. The second setting in F major is bar long.
The Summa contra Gentiles also known as Liber de veritate catholicae fidei contra errores infidelium, "Book on the truth of the Catholic faith against the errors of the unbelievers" [1] is one of the best-known books by St Thomas Aquinas, written during c. It was probably written to aid missionaries in explaining the Christian religion to and defending it against dissenting points of doctrine in Islam and Judaism.
To this end, Aquinas may rely on a substantial body of shared doctrine, especially tenets of monotheism, in the case of Judaism the shared acceptance of the Old Testament as scripture and in the case of Islam the at the time shared tradition of Aristotelian philosophy. Folio 47r from the Capirola Lutebook: The so-called Capirola Lutebook is one of the most important sources of early 16th century Italian lute music. It is an illuminated manuscript which comprises the entire surviving output of Vincenzo Capirola. The Capirola Lutebook was compiled in by Vitale, a pupil of Capirola.
The compositions included probably date from around There are 42 folios; the manuscript begins with a short note by its creator, one Vitale Vidal , pupil of Capirola's. Vitale informs the reader that he adorned the lutebook with paintings to ensure its survival: This explanation is followed by a substantial text on lute playing technique, ornaments and notation—one of the most important sources on performance practice of the time. The lutebook contains the following works for intabula They have often collaborated with Lycourgos Angelopoulos and are influenced by Orthodox music. However, the repertoire includes renaissance polyphony as well as more recent works.
In addition to musical performance, the ensemble also works with musicologists and historians on musical research from this period. Discography The following recordin Thomistic sacramental theology is St. Thomas Aquinas's theology of the sacraments of the Catholic Church. As can be seen, Aquinas relied heavily on Scriptural passages, as well as the writings of various Church Fathers.
Augustine says De Civ. This is the sacred sign of the invisible sacrifice. A thing is called a sacrament, either by having a certain hidden sanctity, and in this sense a sacrament is a sacred secret; or from having some relationship to this sanctity. A sacrament is a sign. Moreover, it is a sacred sign. Divine Wisdom provides for each thing according to its mode. A sign is the way one obtains knowledge of something else. This is a list of compositions by Lorenzo Perosi according to Mario Rinaldi Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart completed his Symphony No.
This name stems not from Mozart but rather was likely coined by the impresario Johann Peter Salomon[4][a] Instrumentation The symphony is scored for flute, two oboes, two bassoons, two horns in C, two trumpets in C, timpani in C and G, and strings. Composition and premiere Symphony No. It is a setting of the Latin Asperges me, the antiphon used for the celebration of Asperges. According to the Catholic practice, the incipit "Asperges me" is not composed and has to be intoned by the priest in Gregorian mode before the choir begins.
The score is in two sections.
Section 1 7 bars begins with "Domine, hysopo" and ends with "dealbabor". Section 2 18 bars begins with the remaining of the text, and is It was released in English as This Special Friendship. The movie is mostly true to the novel, changing only relatively minor plot points such as Alexandre's suicide from poisoning to death by throwing himself from a train.
Also, Alexandre in the movie is brown-haired, not blond, which also removes some of the inside jokes between Alexandre and Georges which are present in the book. On the set of the film, Peyrefitte, who was years-old at the time, met the year-old aristocrat Alain-Philippe Malagnac d'Argens de Eucharistic adoration is a Eucharistic practice in the Roman Catholic, Anglo-Catholic and some Lutheran traditions, in which the Blessed Sacrament is adored by the faithful.
This practice may occur either when the Eucharist is exposed, or when it is not publicly viewable because it is reserved in a place such as a church tabernacle. Adoration is a sign of devotion to and worship of Jesus Christ, who is believed by Catholics to be present Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, under the appearance of the consecrated host, that is, sacramental bread.
From a theological perspective, the adoration is a form of latria, based on the tenet of the real presence of Christ in the Blessed Host. Member feedback about Pange Lingua: Christian hymns Revolvy Brain revolvybrain. Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysterium topic Corpus Christi Procession in Budapest during which the Pange lingua is sung Pange lingua gloriosi corporis mysteriumEcclesiastical Latin: