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Blogcast: The Musical Tradition of All Souls' Day
This blogcast explores “The Musical Tradition of All Souls' Day” written by Emily Lomnitzer and read by Fatima Monterrubio Cruess.
In this blog post, Emily shares some of the history behind All Souls’ Day’s most famous musical compositions, for example, by Mozart, Verdi, or Andrew Lloyd Weber.
Moving forward in history, we see some of the greatest composers creating masterworks called “requiems.” In these, the special prayers for Masses for the dead mentioned above as well as the prayers that are sung at ordinary Masses (like the “Kyrie”) are set to music. Usually they were written for choir…
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