{"id":2150,"date":"2021-03-20T12:46:47","date_gmt":"2021-03-20T12:46:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/?p=2150"},"modified":"2021-03-20T13:15:44","modified_gmt":"2021-03-20T13:15:44","slug":"the-agnus-dei-for-passiontide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/archives\/2150","title":{"rendered":"The Agnus Dei for Passiontide"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-2 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:33.33%\">\n<p>This Sunday, the fifth in Lent, is sometimes called &#8216;Passion Sunday&#8217;, marking the start of the two weeks of Passiontide (the second being Holy Week). One of the most loved  Passiontide songs is <em>O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig<\/em> (O Lamb of God, innocent), with a 500-year-old text and an even older tune. Both its words, from <em>c<\/em>1522, and its setting to a medieval melody are attributed to Nikolaus Decius, one of the early leaders of the Reformation. The earliest printed versions show that Decius had devised it as  <em>Das Agnus Dei<\/em> (&#8216;The Agnus Dei&#8217;) in German for use in the Communion service of the Reformed church, to be sung three times like its model in the Latin Mass. After that function was taken instead by Luther&#8217;s own hymn <em>Christe, du Lamm Gottes<\/em> (set to a Gregorian melody), it remained popular instead as a Passiontide hymn. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Later composers enhanced the hymn with special harmonizations, and on occasion it was incorporated it into the church dramas performed in Holy Week (it appears, for example, in the opening movement of the St Matthew Passion by Picander and J. S. Bach). This fine version by Johannes Eccard (1553-1611), who served Georg Friedrich, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, was published in his&nbsp;collection <em>Der Erste Theil Gheistlicher Lieder <\/em>(K\u00f6nigsberg, 1597).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:66.66%\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">* * &nbsp;<em>This is the seventh post in a series for <a href=\"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/archives\/tag\/lent2021\">Lent and Holy Week, 2021<\/a><\/em>&nbsp;* *<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig<\/em> in the version by Johannes Eccard (1597), performed last month by Margreet Rietveld and other members of the Margaretha Consort, in the Kruiskerk, Meppel, Holland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1xP4ob2WdCs\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-layout-1 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><font color=\"blue\">O Lamb of God, innocent,\nslaughtered on the trunk of the Cross;\nyou always endured patiently,\nhow well you were despised.\nYou have borne all sin,\notherwise we would have to despair.\n<\/font>[1, 2:]<font color=\"blue\"> Have mercy on us, O Jesus.\n<\/font>[3:]<font color=\"blue\"> Give us your peace, O Jesus. <\/font><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\"><em>O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig,\nam Kreuzesstamm geschlachtet;\nallzeit erfund'n geduldig,\nwie wohl du warst verachtet.\nAll' S\u00fcnd hast du getragen,\nsonst m\u00fc\u00dften wir verzagen.\nErbarm dich unser, o Jesu.\nGib uns deinen Fried, o Jesu. <\/em><\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Sunday, the fifth in Lent, is sometimes called &#8216;Passion Sunday&#8217;, marking the start of the two weeks of Passiontide (the second being Holy Week). One of the most loved Passiontide songs is O Lamm Gottes, unschuldig (O Lamb of God, innocent), with a 500-year-old text and an even older tune. Both its words, from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[211],"tags":[123,232,230,233,183,157,210,53,124,37,229,149,231,188,191],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2150"}],"version-history":[{"count":34,"href":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2185,"href":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2150\/revisions\/2185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/databassist.com\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}