The Lamentations

My turn to choose!

Ha! Get your laughing gear round the Lamentations.

The Lamentations were commissioned choral pieces, to be sung in Catholic ceremonies at Easter, the time of Christ's death and resurrection.

Thanks to mama's lucky rummage in the $5 CD box at the back of Yung She Wan sad cat shop, we don't need to wait till then! Now we can fill the house with expressions of lament all year round!

You don't have to travel far on YouTube for them either. Go here or here.

For sacred music of this period, find out about Luis de Victoria, Palestrina, and Tallis.

The Lamentations would have been sung in places like Ely Cathedral, so let's revisit, and let's think about the changes in religious life in the time of Mary and Elizabeth.

(And for my records, there's an informative website at Medieval Music & Arts Foundation.)

I bet you can't wait for Squirrel's turn!