From December 1st, 2009, to January 2nd, 2010, in music and audio materials reading room (room 305) is open a subject exhibition “Musica sacra” displaying music editions and audio records of Wes-European music from the collections of National Library of Belarus.
There are exhibited about 200 documents which represent the major genres of West-European sacred music: mass, requiems, oratorios, cantatas, Magnificat, Te Deum, Stabat Mater, motets, psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. There as well books and articles on the history of West-European sacred music.
West-European musical culture gets its characteristic features in the Middle Ages. At this time professional musical traditions are developing mostly within the limits of the Christian Church.
The Gregorian choral is one of the earliest forms of church music. It has arrived at the present owing to neuma symbols and neuma records on lines invented by Guido Aretino (nearby 1020), that has made possible an effective recording of melodies and their transfer from generation to generation. The Gregorian choral became a basis of all latest professional European music.
During many centuries ingenious composers Palestrina, Bach, Mozart, Liszt, Britten and many others wrote music which should become part of life of the Christian Church. This work resulted in a huge amount of spiritual musical compositions which exerted a profound influence on the inner life of the person.
It’s impossible to imagine the sacred music without the organ. Come from the East, it became widespread in private life, but the Church had given to the organ the status of "the divine musical instrument”. The organ in the Catholic world gradually became the major part of church rituals. During Baroque epoch, which is named by right “The Golden Age of organ art”, this musical instrument reached its fullest flower. Its sound inspired the most known composers of the XVII-XVIII centuries to create masterpieces, which no one can surpass even today. One of the sections of the offered exhibition is dedicated to the organ music.
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