The music for Easter

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Easter is time to reencounter with the spirit, is a time to reflect on the culture and religion that profess each, I am Christian, Catholic and so I speak of a universal spiritual moment in which we remember the passion and death of our Savior who gave his life for us, knowing the life of Jesus Christ is all one, I invite you to get closer to him and to read the Word of God. Music is closely linked to the Catholic Church, we owe our system of notation and the beginnings of the study of music academically, hence the importance of knowing the beginnings of sacred music, a bastion for the evolution of the musical system. Music is closely linked to the Catholic Church, we owe our system of notation and the beginnings of the study of music academically, hence the importance of knowing the beginnings of this music, a bastion for the evolution of the musical system.

The term sacred music means sacred music. His purpose is to bring the heart to God. It arose in the Middle Ages with the Gregorian chants, vocalized by the monks in the churches and abbeys, as part of the rites of the Catholic Church. Historically "during the Roman Empire (24AC-476DC), Christians were persecuted for a time, but then Christianity was erected as the official religion and Pope Gregory I decided to include songs in the churches that took the name of Gregorian chants, although he never composed one" according to Dra. Bermúdez.

Then the Gregorian chant was called by its style plain chant, these songs consist of a selection of liturgical songs, compositions that are born with a cantus firmus as a melody and based on it develops a counterpoint with other voices, mostly Imitative in its beginning, then with the passing of time the composers began to add denser harmonies and increased the separation of the voices. The composing sacred music has become in part fundamental in any academy of academic music, for composers who begin their studies, writing, motets and masses.

At Easter the songs based on the word of God for each day are the most used, today for example Good Friday is sung the Popule Meus, Tomás Luis de Victoria wrote the first is the greatest composer of the Spanish Renaissance, pupil of the great Palestrina , it has a great conscription of sacred masterpieces, this sacred polyphonic style chant, is a Improperia, is a antiphonal Song of questions and answers, expressing the protests of Jesus Christ, is formed by several verses in which a soloist is answered a part of the chorus in Greek, and the other half, in Latin. In this composition of victory, the answers are given by the whole chorus.

Original Letter: Popule meus, quid te feci tibi? aut in quo contristavite? Responde mihi. Hagios o Theos. Sanctus Deus. Hagios ischyros. Sanctus fortis. Hagios athanatos, eleison imas. Sanctus et inmortalis, miserere nobis.

Greek expressions with the same meaning as the Latin expressions that come below.
Translation:
My people, what have I done to you? How did I offend you? Answer. Holy is God. Holy is God. Holy and Strong. Holy and Strong. Holy Immortal, have mercy on us. Holy Immortal, have mercy on us.

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I leave this great work so that they can enjoy listening to it, the choral music is the most magical thing that can exist to elevate the soul, this interpretation is of the Choeur of May.