Liturgy
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It seems potentially unjust that we are in the second year of weekly blog posts before I first reflect on a work by the giant of English Choral Music that Charles Williers Stanford undoubtedly is: giant of English Choral Music despite being Irish in origin. Probably early works, his three motets (opus 38) are unusual… Read more
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No doubt all readers have been waiting impatiently for this blog’s first mention of Hildegard von Bingen, the Rhineland Abbess famous as an ‘early female composer’. She was not, of course, only or even primarily a composer, but a poet, mystic, theologian, leader, and fierce advocate for what she saw as righteousness and justice. As… Read more
Theology in Music 