[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Kathy!

*HUGS*

Thank you very much for tonight's Sunday Chapel thread! May you and yours have a Blessed Lord's Day!



Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps Pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Publius]

The Mozart Requiem is one of the greatest artifacts of Western Civilization. He never finished the work, and students and researchers have come up with various performing editions in the centuries after its composition. You know from the opening bars that this is something special.

At 4:41 Mozart launches into the Kyrie, which he sets as a fugue. This is logical because of the repetitive nature of the Greek words. But this is Mozart wearing his Size 15 Triple-E boots, and no composer of requiems ever set the Kyrie as a fugue after this!

At the end, Mozart finishes it with a D chord with an open fifth (D-A-D). Normally this is used to indicate tonal ambiguity, because the F or F# in the middle determines whether you are in the major or minor mode. But that’s not why Mozart uses it. The open fifth configuration is here used to describe spaciousness. Usually it is spaciousness above, but – and I’ve never figured out how Mozart did this – here it describes the spaciousness below. For the length of that final chord and its decay in the space of the hall or church, Mozart gives us a look into the abyss. It’s absolutely hair-raising.

Mozart: Requiem, Introit and Kyrie

[ConorMacNessa]

WE THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. "





Our Founding Fathers brought this essential freedom into existence through great adversity. It is under attack now more than at any other time during our lives. We are called on to uphold and defend it, whatever the cost!

Nos genuflectitur ad non princeps sed Princeps pacem!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mac, and a Blessed Lord’s Day to the MacNessa family.

Did you meet your goals for “getting things done” today. I’ve fallen short, but the day isn’t over yet. LOL!

*HUGS*

Any updates from daughter in Kenya? Prayers for safety and success of mission continue.