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A mass (especially Catholic) to honor and remember a dead person.
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A musical composition for such a mass.
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A piece of music composed to honor a dead person.
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Rest; peace
Examples of requiem in a Sentence
She had selected "Pie Jesu" from Faure's Requiem, vocally, a very difficult piece.
The most celebrated Requiem Masses are those of Palestrina, Mozart and Cherubini.
Just eight years later its fabric was complete, and June 1903 saw both the Cardinal's Requiem Mass and Elgar's first London performance of "The Dream of Gerontius" held in its towering nave.
The name is taken from the first words of the Introit, Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.
I sing alto in a local choral society where we are currently learning Mozart's Requiem.
Requiem composed by Terry Bailey in memory of his parents.
I'd had this slightly obsessive idea about doing a secular Requiem for a while - since my mate's little girl died.
In June 2004 she created Venetian Requiem for the Royal Ballet's Diaghilev Celebration.
With modern orchestral conditions the text seems positively to demand an unecclesiastical, not to say sensational, style, and probably the only instrumental Requiem Masses which can be said to be great church music are the sublime unfinished work of Mozart (the antecedents of which would be a very interesting subject) and the two beautiful works by Cherubini.
Learn and perform Mozart's wonderful Requiem in a day!
The tenor and former student Rhys Meirion will perform Welsh composer Brian Hughes ' new Requiem at the College with Côr Godre'r Garth.
There was a solemn Requiem at the House of Mercy, the celebrant being his nephew William Carter, Bishop of Zululand.
Requiem mass were many members of the Luton team of the 1950s.
A Requiem is a setting of Latin text of the Mass for the Dead, which begins with the word requiem, meaning rest.
The center of their program is Victoria 's Requiem, which is a stunning example of renaissance music at its very best.
The group was formed in 2002 to perform a choral requiem composed by Terry Bailey in memory of his parents.
I 'd had this slightly obsessive idea about doing a secular Requiem for a while - since my mate 's little girl died.
Sotto Voce recorded his Requiem for voices, organ, horn and string orchestra in March 2005 (see link below).
In June 2004 she created Venetian Requiem for the Royal Ballet 's Diaghilev Celebration.
Among the 400 people who attended his requiem mass were many members of the Luton team of the 1950s.
You can find movies like 21 Grams and Requiem for a Dream.
There's fog horns, there's a piece of the Mozart Requiem, you name it.
Mozart becomes obsessed with writing a Requiem as his friends, family, health, and resources waste away.
Requiem for voices, organ, horn and string orchestra in March 2005 (see link below ).
Dona eis requiem.
It was Homer's requiem; itself an Iliad and Odyssey in the air, singing its own wrath and wanderings.
Learn and perform Mozart 's wonderful Requiem in a day !
It was his most cherished ambition to see before he died an adequate Roman Catholic cathedral in Westminster, and he laboured untiringly to secure subscriptions, with the result that its foundation stone was laid in 1895, and that when he died, on the r9th of June 1903, the building was so far complete that a Requiem Mass was said there over his body before it was removed to its resting-place at Mill Hill Park.
Its life is the measure of the period of oral tradition, whose requiem is sung by Papias.
Brahms's Deutsches requiem has nothing to do with the Mass for the dead, being simply a large choral work on a text compiled from the Bible by the composer.