Timeline for History and theological purpose of the Sequence portion of the Catholic Requiem Mass liturgy
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| Dec 5, 2022 at 6:36 | vote | accept | GratefulDisciple | ||
| Dec 1, 2022 at 23:58 | history | edited | Ken Graham♦ | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Dec 1, 2022 at 9:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackChristian/status/1598240504474484736 | ||
| Nov 30, 2022 at 21:50 | comment | added | eques | Sequences in other cases derive from extended melismas (chanting a syllable over multiple notes) and then adding text to help keep track, which then started to be sung. The melisma was from the last syllable of the Alleluia and so the text that followed became a sequence (from sequor to follow). A requiem doesn't have an Alleluia traditionally so the sequence derived there by imitation. | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 21:26 | answer | added | Ken Graham♦ | timeline score: 1 | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 21:24 | comment | added | Peter Turner♦ | hopefully Eques or someone can give you an answer, I don't know beans about the purposes of the nuances in the Mass. I've got a feeling that the answer to "has the same function" is yes, because that's pretty much how all aspects of the liturgy work, if it had a different purpose it would probably have a different name. I can't think of anything we do that is dual-purpose without being called something different, even if it is as banal as "sequence" or as obscure as "secret". | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 21:18 | comment | added | GratefulDisciple | @PeterTurner Thanks. Do you think a sequence in the funeral liturgy would have the same function for a sequence in the Pentecost liturgy? It would be great if the answer could include a general purpose for a sequence as well as the specific purpose in a Requiem mass, in addition to the origin of the funeral sequence (i.e. Dies Irae), which seems to no longer to be required now. At any rate, the Latin poetry is beautiful and Mozart's rendition really makes it come alive emotionally (through various aspects of the composition) if we listen while imagining that we just pass away. | |
| Nov 30, 2022 at 21:05 | comment | added | Peter Turner♦ |
I've never been to a cool enough Funeral to have included a sequence, but I don't think the Credo would be in a funeral mass for the sequence to replace it. The Credo is only said on Sunday Masses (and solemnities I think). And there are Sunday Masses (Pentecost for instance) that have a sequence.
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| Nov 30, 2022 at 19:31 | history | edited | GratefulDisciple | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2022 at 18:15 | history | edited | GratefulDisciple | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2022 at 18:09 | history | edited | GratefulDisciple | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Nov 30, 2022 at 18:02 | history | asked | GratefulDisciple | CC BY-SA 4.0 |