Theology in Music

A blog considering theology as illustrated by Western Art Music

  • Holy Week: le chemin de la croix VII

    As we journey through Holy Week, the blog is taking a slightly different format with short reflections on Marcel Dupré’s Le chemin de la croix, a musical version of the Stations of the Cross. Instead of one reflection released on Wednesday, these episodes are to appear through the week from Palm Sunday until Good Friday.… Read more

  • Holy Week: le chemin de la croix VI

    As we journey through Holy Week, the blog is taking a slightly different format with short reflections on Marcel Dupré’s Le chemin de la croix, a musical version of the Stations of the Cross. Instead of one reflection released on Wednesday, these episodes are to appear through the week from Palm Sunday until Good Friday.… Read more

  • Holy Week: le chemin de la croix V

    As we journey through Holy Week, the blog is taking a slightly different format with short reflections on Marcel Dupré’s Le chemin de la croix, a musical version of the Stations of the Cross. Instead of one reflection released on Wednesday, these episodes are to appear through the week from Palm Sunday until Good Friday.… Read more

  • Holy Week: le chemin de la croix IV

    As we journey through Holy Week, the blog is taking a slightly different format with short reflections on Marcel Dupré’s Le chemin de la croix, a musical version of the Stations of the Cross. Instead of one reflection released on Wednesday, these episodes are to appear through the week from Palm Sunday until Good Friday.… Read more

  • Holy Week: le chemin de la croix III

    As we journey through Holy Week, the blog is taking a slightly different format with short reflections on Marcel Dupré’s Le chemin de la croix, a musical version of the Stations of the Cross. Instead of one reflection released on Wednesday, these episodes are to appear through the week from Palm Sunday until Good Friday.… Read more

  • Holy Week: le chemin de la croix II

    As we journey through Holy Week, the blog is taking a slightly different format with short reflections on Marcel Dupré’s Le chemin de la croix, a musical version of the Stations of the Cross. Instead of one reflection released on Wednesday, these episodes are to appear through the week from Palm Sunday until Good Friday.… Read more

  • Holy Week: le chemin de la croix I

    As we journey through Holy Week, the blog is taking a slightly different format with short reflections on Marcel Dupré’s Le chemin de la croix, a musical version of the Stations of the Cross. Instead of one reflection released on Wednesday, these episodes are to appear through the week from Palm Sunday until Good Friday.… Read more

  • To die of love

    An Ursuline nun of Novara,Name: Isabella Leonarda,Wrote music and song,And thought it not wrongTo devote to our mater beata. Indeed, many of Leonarda’s works carry a double dedication to our Lady and to someone whose funding or other such secular patronage she might have sought on behalf of her convent. She came from a prominent… Read more

  • In simple adoration

    In the week of Mothering Sunday, I am reminded that Volume 15 number 86 (December 1951) of Ohio’s Lorenz Music Publishing’s The Organ Portfolio, contains a short piece for organ entitled Adoration. It is by Florence Price, and has become popular, often in rearranged form – the solo violin version seems particularly prominent. Price was… Read more

  • A Hymne to Christ

    In 1619 John Donne travelled to Germany as a ‘chaplain’ on a diplomatic mission. Before setting out he penned a poem entitled A Hymn to Christ, at the Author’s last going into Germany. In 1940, when others were heading from England to Germany at considerable cost (I am not sure about the idea of war… Read more