Abstract
Abstract Abstract: This chapter discusses the use of Latin biblical texts in music from Gregorian chant through Renaissance polyphony to the present day. Comprising five sections—Gregorian Chant; Latin Hymns and Sequences; From Tropes to Passions; Motets; and Oratorios and Other Large-Scale Works—it provides a brief overview of the Latin Bible’s reception in music. The development of musical forms is described, along with the attention given to the biblical text. Liturgical usage includes settings of the mass, including the Requiem, as well as canticles, antiphons, and motets. Early hymns were used in theological debates. Despite the move to larger-scale works in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, performed in concert halls rather than churches, the setting of traditional texts associated with the Latin Bible continues to provide continuity across the centuries of Western music.
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