Choral Music for Mourning & Death
Lamentations, from a simple song to the setting of an entire requiem, express the pain of mourning over death. In the funeral service (Missa pro defunctis), however, the confidence in the resurrection also becomes clear. While the texts of many funeral songs, beginning with the 22nd Psalm "My God, why have you forsaken me" and extending to texts by poets of our day, are expressions of individual lament, many large-scale funeral services also have the representative function of underscoring the social significance of the deceased.
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