tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38363034.post1024136225427392640..comments2023-07-18T04:11:59.710-05:00Comments on Joy: Verdi as secular musicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38363034.post-62441994297595481122007-11-03T07:01:00.000-05:002007-11-03T07:01:00.000-05:00I think you’re hitting the nail squarely on the he...I think you’re hitting the nail squarely on the head: just where are the lines of appropriateness, and what is their rationale?<BR/><BR/>I would keep Verdi Requiem out of the Mass, too, actually - it’s so theatrical and bombastic, esp. in the sequence. There is something about its Sanctus that doesn’t quite jive with my idea of the sacred, awesome, and indescribably beautiful.<BR/><BR/>I think we who are the “heirs” of the 20th-century liturgical movement would do well to look into just what it was against which St. Pius X and his contemporaries were reacting. I don’t have answers there - wasn’t it stuff kinda like the more operatic sections of the Verdi Requiem, e.g. the A major section of the Kyrie?<BR/><BR/>Beethoven wrote two Masses - both of which, I believe, were written for concert rather than for the liturgy. I personally have a hard time envisioning any of the Classical Masses at an actual liturgy; the style seems, to me, so strongly associated with concert performance in our day and age.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com