The Melody of Souls: Song as Penance and Beatitude in Dante’s Purgatorio and Paradiso
Dante’s depiction of song conveys an essential truth about music’s relationship to the divine.
Dante’s depiction of song conveys an essential truth about music’s relationship to the divine.
More than 500 years ago Antoine Brumel wrote a 12-part Mass that allows us to experience the uninhibited spirituality of the pre-Reformation world of the early 16th century. Its construction from a tiny motif of Gregorian chant from the Easter Lauds is nothing less than awe-inspiring.
To fully appreciate Perosi, we must try to look at the hope he sparked in people during his golden age.
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