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There is a popular myth – no less mythical for its popularity – that Palestrina composed his Missa Papae Marcelli to address concerns that polyphonic music obscured the import of religious texts, thereby ‘saving’ artistic music in Catholic liturgy after the Catholic Reformation associated principally with the council of Trent. Hans Pfitzner’s operatic retelling of Read more
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It has been said that the first printed book of music dedicated to works by a single composer was a 1502 publication by Petrucci containing five settings of the ordinary of the Mass by Josquin des Prez. By the time they were composed (though the actual date of composition is difficult to pinpoint) the tradition Read more
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This week I have been thinking (I need not articulate why) about nationalisms and anxiety, and how these might be related to theological music. There are many options I could have gone with, but an absolute classic (which, a long time ago, was an A Level set work for me) suggested itself. Theological as a Read more
Theology in Music 