Word: benedictus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This sense of detail is the cornerstone of a distinctive philosophic method to which Wolfson brings, in the words of a colleague, "the instinct of a great detective." In every philosopher, Wolfson contends, there are two important men. In Spinoza, for example, there is Benedictus and Baruch. Benedictus is Spinoza the writer, the explicit man. Baruch, on the other hand, is the implicit Spinoza, the man on whom Benedictus ultimately depends, and through whom he may be understood...
...program was so discriminatingly planned that I cannot forebear some discussion of it. There chief strands of late 16th century music were brought together. Clement's famous Adoramus and a Benedictus by Palestrina represented what was called the stile antico, a restrained contrapuntal style used in orthodox church music. Giovanni Gabrieli's dazzling Symphoniae Sacrae combined elements of both the Renaissance splendor of Venice and the Baroque love o the spectacular; finally, a number of chansons by Lassus, Arcadelt, and Regnard exemplified the piquant secular songs of the period...
...voice chorus which prevented the subtly shifting balance of up to eight voice parts from being clearly perceived, especially in the intricate In Ecclesiis and Jubilate Dco. Nevertheless, these works achieved a tremendous excitement, due in no small part to the assistance of an excellent brass choir. The Gabrieli Benedictus and O Jesu Mi Duleissime, on the other hand, were realized with a greater transparency of texture, perhaps because the vocal masses were more evenly balanced against each other in these works. Also, in the case of the Benedictus, the choirs were distributed in three parts of Sanders Theatre while...