Reproaches

When the solemn moment of the Crucifixion is reached on Good Friday, when the officiating priests advance in turn to adoration while the Cross itself lifts its voice in "Reproaches" to the multitude with Palestrina's music, who does not feel the dramatic directness of the representation?

Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama George Ainslie Hight

"Reproaches", but in a peculiar manner, the hymn being preceded by the eighth stanza (Crux fidelis) while the stanzas are followed alternately by the first four and the last two lines of the (divided) eighth stanza.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913

"Reproaches" and the Trisagion, assuredly a masterpiece, perhaps the masterpiece of that prince of church song, adds an overpowering pathos of music to the words, and constitutes, like the Hallelujah

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Liturgy is sung during the Improperia, or "Reproaches" at the ceremony of the Adoration of the Cross, on Good Friday.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

Now and then she paused in her work, to look down at the golden lashes sweeping the slumber-flushed cheeks, and pondering the mystery of the waif's future, she chanted in a rich contralto voice, the solemn "Reproaches" of Gounod's "Redemption."

At the Mercy of Tiberius 1872

In the solemn ceremonies of Good Friday, in the Adoration of the Cross, in the chanting of the 'Reproaches', in the reading of the Passion, and in receiving the pre-consecrated Host, we unite ourselves to our Saviour, and we contemplate our own death to sin in the Death of our Lord.

MaltaMedia ramona 2010

In the solemn ceremonies of Good Friday, in the Adoration of the Cross, in the chanting of the 'Reproaches', in the reading of the Passion, and in receiving the pre-consecrated Host, we unite ourselves to our Saviour, and we contemplate our own death to sin in the Death of our Lord.

MaltaMedia ramona 2010

In the solemn ceremonies of Good Friday, in the Adoration of the Cross, in the chanting of the 'Reproaches', in the reading of the Passion, and in receiving the pre-consecrated Host, we unite ourselves to our Saviour, and we contemplate our own death to sin in the Death of our Lord.

MaltaMedia.com 2009

After the austere, stupendously dignified and moving liturgy at Christ Church, New Haven, commencing at noon last Friday — at the climax of which the choir sang the haunting Improperia (Reproaches) in the beautiful setting by Tomás Luis de Victoria — I stopped off at Gourmet Heaven, the convenience store, to pick up a bottle of milk.

Good Friday 2009

After the austere, stupendously dignified and moving liturgy at Christ Church, New Haven, commencing at noon last Friday — at the climax of which the choir sang the haunting Improperia (Reproaches) in the beautiful setting by Tomás Luis de Victoria — I stopped off at Gourmet Heaven, the convenience store, to pick up a bottle of milk.

Archive 2009-04-01 2009