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Karl Jenkins - The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace

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posted on Jan, 24 2012 @ 05:30 AM
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The Armed Man is a Mass by Welsh composer Karl Jenkins, subtitled "A Mass for Peace". The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations, and to mark the museum's move from London to Leeds, and it was dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis. Like Benjamin Britten's War Requiem before it, it is essentially an anti-war piece and is based on the Catholic Mass, which Jenkins combines with other sources, principally the fifteenth century folk song L'homme armé in the first and last movements. It was written for SATB chorus with soloists (soprano and Muezzin) and a symphonic orchestra. Guy Wilson, then master of the museum, selected the texts for the mass.


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...a most profound composition.



posted on Jan, 25 2012 @ 05:02 AM
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Not from The Armed Man...but more from Karl Jenkins...




posted on Jan, 25 2012 @ 05:05 AM
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And my favourite, this is simply stunning...






 
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