04 junho 2005

goosebumps

acabei agora de fazer o download da 'agnus dei' do rufus wainwright.
i heard for the first time live, opening a concert. can't say i made a bad deal.

liturgical passage of oriental origin, recited or sung in every mass except on the holy Friday and on Easter Eve. It is repeated three times. It ends every litany, and can be found, in different forms, in almost all the liturgies.

a setting of the plea misere nobis that begins with the men's voices alone yields, eventual, to a bright D-major prayer "dona nobis pacem" (grant us peace) in a pastoral mode. After some fugal development, it is interrupted by martial sounds (a convention in the 18th century, as in Haydn's Missa in Tempore Belli) but eventually brings itself to a stately conclusion.

(Latin) [from agnus lamb + deus god] Lamb of God; originating in the New Testament: "The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world" (John 1:29).

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