Theology in Music

A blog considering theology as illustrated by Western Art Music

Crucifixion

  • A stream of blood which cries

    Hildegard von Bingen has featured on this blog before, and is not the first composer to have more than one piece considered. A single vocal line, and possibly an unfinished or incomplete idea, O cruor sanguinis is a short antiphon associated with the crucifixion. The short text reads: O cruor sanguinis qui in alto sonuisti, Read more

  • Acceptance of suffering

    It is slightly cheeky of me to entitle my post this week with a movement title used in Petr Eben’s Job, discussed last week, while this week we are considering a different work entirely. Giant of contemporary classical music, and if anything even more so of music that might validly be considered theological, the Scottish Read more