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  • I'm told that the recording of Gabrieli's canzonas and sacrae symphoniae with the Chicago, Cleveland and Philly brass from the 1960s is entirely incorrect.

    Salvati dunque e scolpati Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Augustin, a canon at St Pierre, Lille, edited Novae cantiones sacrae Douai, 1590¹0, a collection of 40 motets by the brothers; best represented within the anthology, with 24 motets, is françois Regnart, who studied at the University of Douai before securing ecclesiastical and courtly positions at Tournai.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009

  • Iterum atque, iterum moneo, ut animam sacrae scripturae lectione occupes.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • “Secundum communem dictionem sacrae scripturae, mors dicitur somnus, et morientes dicuntur abdormire, quod innuere mihi videtur statum mortis esse statum quietis, silentii, et {Greek expression}.”

    Memoirs of My Life and Writings Gibbon, Edward, 1737-1794 1994

  • “How valuable a thing music is,” wrote the school - master Richard Mulcaster, in prefatory verses to Tallis and Byrd's Cantiones sacrae (1575), “is shown by those who teach that numbers constitute the foundation of everything that has form, and that music is made up of these.”

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas GRETCHEN LUDKE FINNEY 1968

  • Ergo cum ille nos in regnum suum per adoptionem sacrae regenerationis assumpserit, nos ei quod suum est denegamus? ille nos supernae generationis haeredes fecit, nos haereditatem vindicamus, refutamus authorem; sed non potest manere beneficium cum author excluditur, nec author sine munere, nec sine authore munus.

    Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

  • _Fast_ VI 5-6 'est deus in nobis; agitante calescimus illo:/impetus hic sacrae semina mentis habet'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Thus the world of perception became unreal, that it might be transmuted into the real world of faith; and symbolism like that of Hugh of St. Victor dominated men's thought, making all things (like the Mass itself, if in a less degree) into _signa rei sacrae_.

    The Unity of Civilization Various

  • For one person a year after took the _sacrae mensae_ (by which I had meant the sanctities of hospitality) to mean the sacramental table.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

  • - "Signum rei sacrae in quantum est sanctificans homines" (III: 60: 2).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

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