In my class on the Bible and Music, one of the topics is bringing texts together from different parts of the Bible into a new work, in which those fragments have a new context and thus take on a new meaning. We look at examples such as Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’ Requiem, Dave Brubeck’s The Gates of Justice, and Herbert Howells’ Hymnus Paradisi. It provides an opportunity to think about what is involved in this process, and how it relates not... Read more