Weekly Tenebrae
  • Richard MixRichard Mix
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    I just ran across this tidbit to warm a music lover's heart in L. Cuyler's The Emperor Maximillian I and Music: "In 1492 the Augsburg Cathedral received a stipend to support singing the responses of the Tenebrae each Friday of the year, in its St. Gertrude Chapel. Four years later, a similar endowment for a weekly Tenebrae service was established at the church of Sts. Ulrich and Afra." In a footnote is this observation: "…a manifestation of the same taste for the lugubrious that inspired such late Gothic art works as Grünewald's Isenheim altarpiece."
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  • Daniel Bennett PageDaniel Bennett Page
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    The name-calling in the footnote, which denigrates anachronistically the liturgical observances and ecclesiastical artwork of the late Middle Ages, would not pass muster in more recent academic forums.
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