Singing saints biography
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Chapter 8 Singing the Lives of the Saints: Hagiographical-Historical Intersections in Music and Worship
Abstract
As a distinctive component of the annual liturgical cycle proper to each medieval community, musical profiles of the saints voiced in the chants of the Mass and Office became one of the most familiar and internalized forms of hagiographical narrative. Because musical settings of excerpts from a saint’s vita typically varied according to place and time, these carefully crafted vignettes at once betray the ideals that were prized by a given community and document the changing meaning of saints and their veneration at defining moments in history. Yet how, exactly, might music intersect with history to meditate on the spiritual, and at times political, meaning of a saint’s life? This chapter examines a variety of methods by which singing clerics combined, adapted, and re-interpreted hagiographical, biblical, exegetical, and historical sources through case studies of chants for two saints venerated prominently in the medieval diocese of Liège: the universally-recognized apostle John the Evangelist, and the local bishop Lambert.
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Camille Saint-Saëns
French composer, organist, sink and player (1835–1921)
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There was in the city of Rome a virgin named Cecilia, who was given in marriage to a youth named Valerian. She wore sackcloth next to her skin, and fasted, and invoked the saints and angels and virgins, beseeching them to guard her virginity. And she said to her husband, “I will tell you a secret if you will swear not to reveal it to anyone.” And when he swore, she added, “There is an angel who watches me, and wards off from me any who would touch me.” He said, “Dearest, if this be true, show me the angel.” “That can only be if you will believe in one God, and be baptized.”
She sent him to Pope S. Urban (223-230), who baptized him; and when he returned, he saw Cecilia praying in her chamber, and an angel by her with flaming wings, holding two crowns of roses and lilies, which he placed on their heads, and then vanished. Shortly after, Tibertius, the brother of Valerian, entered, and wondered at the fragrance and beauty of the flowers at that season of the year. When he heard the story of how they had obtained these crowns, he also consented to be baptized.