In Reply to: The cosmic irony is that Classical aficionados own the Bach Masses, Passions; Handel's Oratorios, Mozart's, posted by jdaniel@jps.net on July 16, 2016 at 17:01:47:
I don't understand Latin so it hardly matters if it's religious or not.
Heck, even the Handel stuff that's in English is hard enough to understand so that it doesn't matter what they are singing.
They guys writing this stuff were just working in whatever market that would pay the bills anyway.
"I got some great tunes here, you got some text you want plugged in?"
First they came for the dumb-asses
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a dumb-ass
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Follow Ups
- What do I care? - Ivan303 09:26:37 07/17/16 (4)
- Um, no. - rbolaw 05:50:16 07/18/16 (3)
- "The words/lyrics matter" - sure, for some composers - for others, not so much - Chris from Lafayette 11:26:35 07/18/16 (2)
- Lyrics and words mattered enormously to Mozart - rbolaw 15:27:59 07/18/16 (1)
- Yup - sometimes they did [nt] ;-) - Chris from Lafayette 18:44:33 07/18/16 (0)