#339: Christ, the Life of All the Living
Dec. 15th, 2020 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lutheranhymnsOut of order, oops.
I'm not sure if this really qualifies as a genre or just confirmation bias, but the 1600s German composers (so a century after Luther, when Europe was going through the Thirty Years' War and other fun times) had some dark imagery. We got "distress, anguish, and affliction", "Alas, my treason," "scornfully surrounded with thorns" in Holy Week. Now we have "the groaning, sighing...bleeding, and the dying." As well as other fun feminine rhymes like affliction/crucifixion (again!) and pardon/garden (of Gethsemane). Whatever works.
I'm not sure if this really qualifies as a genre or just confirmation bias, but the 1600s German composers (so a century after Luther, when Europe was going through the Thirty Years' War and other fun times) had some dark imagery. We got "distress, anguish, and affliction", "Alas, my treason," "scornfully surrounded with thorns" in Holy Week. Now we have "the groaning, sighing...bleeding, and the dying." As well as other fun feminine rhymes like affliction/crucifixion (again!) and pardon/garden (of Gethsemane). Whatever works.
