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Thread #39855   Message #822890
Posted By: GUEST,Q
10-Nov-02 - 05:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Non-music: Mark Twain's War Prayer
Subject: RE: BS: Non-music: Mark Twain's War Prayer
The BBC "Composer of the week" is Victoria, whose sonorous masses and motets are among the great masterpieces. His "Missa pro Victoria," a "battle" mass in nine voices (making use of two choir units), in celebration of a victory (not himself) is hair-raising in its beauty and complexity. Music fit for Zeus!
Mark Twain would love the music but hate the message.
Go to BBC Radio 3 on the internet and these programs on the music of Victoria, Morales and the other great Spaniards (Palestrina thrown in with his Mass for Pope Marcellus) who worked in Rome and Spain before and after 1600 can be heard.