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François Couperin Thursday: 2 Lessons for S & bc, 3rd for SS & bc.

Antoine Brumel (parts of Friday Lesson 1: Heth.Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (gathered into 4 'books' in Haberl's Opera omnia XXV).Giovan Nasco TTTB Feria V Feria VI Feria VII.Giovanni Maria Nanino: Maundy Thursday (Lessons shortened to 2 verses) ATTB.Cristóbal de Morales (and circle, possibly): Maundy Thursday I II III (ATTB) Good Friday I II III (ATTB) Saturday I II III (ATTBB,SATTB.SATTBB).Antonio Mogavero (SSATTB the 3 lost partbooks have been reconstructed).Tiburtio Massaino SATTB Feria V Feria VI Sabbato Sancto (all 3 with Miserere & Benedictus).Elzear Genet: Liber Lamentationum Hieremiae prophetae Carpentras ATTB.5 (with Responsories, Miserere & Benedictus) Feria 6.

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If Christ Himself designated His death as the destruction of a temple, 'he spoke of the temple of his body' (John 2:19-21), then the Church surely has a right to pour out her grief over His death in those Lamentations which were sung over the ruins of the temple destroyed by the sins of the nation. The Lamentations have received a peculiar distinction in the Liturgy of the Church in the Office of Passion Week. In the first, second, and fourth elegies each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet, the letters following in order, as the first verse begins with ALEPH, the second with BETH etc. The first, second, fourth, and fifth laments are each composed of twenty-two verses, to correspond with the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet the third lament is made up of three times twenty-two verses. In all five elegies the construction of the verses follows an alphabetical arrangement. All the fibres of his heart were bound up with Jerusalem he was now himself crushed and desolate. Consequently, the grief of Jeremiah was personal, not merely a sympathetic emotion over the sorrow of others, for he had sought to prevent the disaster by his labours as a prophet in the streets of the city. To a man like Jeremiah, the day on which Jerusalem became a heap of ruins was not only a day of national misfortune, for, in a religious sense, Jerusalem had a peculiar importance in the history of salvation, as the footstool of Jahweh and as the scene of the revelation of God and of the Messias. The superscription to Lamentations in the Septuagint and other versions throws light on the historical occasion of their production and on the author: 'And it came to pass, after Israel was carried into captivity, and Jerusalem was desolate, that Jeremiah the prophet sat weeping, and mourned with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and with a sorrowful mind, sighing and moaning, he said:'. from their elegiac character, or the 'Ekhah songs after the first word of the first, second, and fourth elegies in Greek they are called Threnoi, in Latin they are known as Lamentationes. In the Greek and Latin Bibles there are five songs of lament bearing the name of Jeremiah, which follow the Book of the Prophecy of Jeremias. Lamentationes Ieremiae (English Lamentations of Jeremiah) Jeremiah lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem, by Rembrandt

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