Mozart
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For Ash Wednesday, let us consider the glorious setting of a penitential psalm that constitutes one of the most famous tales of music ‘piracy’ before the internet: the setting of Psalm 51 Miserere mei in decorated falsobordone by Gregorio Allegri associated with Holy Week services in the Sistine Chapel – within the Papal palace –… Read more
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Having started to think about appropriate works with which to ponder through the theology of the resurrection in Easter week the plan has been altered by news of the death of Pope Francis. No doubt any pontiff would appreciate a meditation on resurrection as an epitaph, and Francis’s musical taste was both admirable and sufficiently… Read more
Theology in Music 