in Choir & Organ (Mar, 2016)
The Requiem Mass evolved from the Eucharistic Mass and by the 9th century had become a separate entity. It took its name from the opening text – ‘Requiem aeternam’ – and retained three sections of the Mass Ordinary, Kyrie, Sanctus and Agnus Dei. The Gloria and Credo were replaced over a long period of time by appropriate liturgical texts, the most substantial of which was 12th-century hymn, the sequence known as the Dies Irae. This last, with its graphic commentary on the apocalyptic events of the Last Judgement, proved a giftto later composers, with Berlioz, Verdi and Britten seizing on its dramatic power to produce awe-inspiring music.
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