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She just wanted an angel to come to take her away from all this." Prine believes he likely was drawn to Montgomery as the song's setting by virtue of being a fan of Hank Williams, who had ties to that city. [2] Angel from Montgomery was the original title of the Cherie Bennett/Jeff Gottesfeld screenplay that became the 2006 movie Broken Bridges ...
Agnus Dei (1981) Polish Requiem (1980–84, revised and expanded 1993, expanded 2005 after Pope John Paul II's death) Song of the Cherubim (1986) Veni creator (1987) Benedicamus Domino (1992) Benedictus (1993) Agnus Dei (1995, for the Requiem of Reconciliation) De Profundis (1996) Hymne an den heiligen Daniel (1997) Hymne an den heiligen ...
Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is a choral composition in one movement by Samuel Barber, his own arrangement of his Adagio for Strings (1936). In 1967, he set the Latin words of the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, for mixed chorus with optional organ or piano accompaniment. The music, in B-flat minor, has a duration of about eight minutes.
Agnus Dei (in three sections: I, II, III) Agnus Dei (II) from Missa l'homme armé super voces musicales. The entire Agnus Dei II consists of a three-part mensuration canon. The middle voice is the slowest; the lowest voice sings at twice the speed of the middle voice, and the top voice at three times the speed.
The whole is repeated with the addition of pianissimo cymbal and bass drum to the "Sanctus" and a much expanded "Hosanna" fugue. Berlioz suggested that the solo part could be sung by ten tenors. The final movement, containing the "Agnus Dei" and Communion sections of the Mass, features long held chords by the woodwinds and strings.
The fifth movement is the Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) of the Requiem. Rutter uses a steady beat on one note, similar to the timpani of the first movement. The Latin text is contrasted with another biblical passage, "Man that is born of a woman hath but a short time to live" from the Book of Job. The call Agnus Dei in measure 58 is the dynamic ...
The best-known part of Lloyd Webber's Requiem, the "Pie Jesu" segment, combines the traditional Pie Jesu text with that of the Agnus Dei from later in the standard Requiem Mass. It was originally performed by Sarah Brightman , who premiered the selection in 1985 in a duet with boy soprano Paul Miles-Kingston ; a music video of their duet was ...
Agnus Dei, whose Latin text comes from the last movement of the same name in the Catholic Mass. The soprano introduces the theme, singing it over the orchestra and choir. The text translates as "Lamb of God, grant us peace." Beat! Beat! Drums!, is based on the first Whitman poem. The text describes the drums and bugles of war bursting through ...