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4 unusual facts about Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium


Pange Lingua

Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium - by Thomas Aquinas, 13th Century, celebrating the Institution of the Eucharist.

Pange Lingua Gloriosi Corporis Mysterium

Building on Josquin's treatment of the hymn's third line in the Kyrie of the Missa Pange Lingua, the "Do-Re-Fa-Mi-Re-Do"-theme became one of the most famous in music history, used to this day in even non-religious works such as Wii Sports Resort.

Various separate musical settings have been written for this, including one by Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, one by Franz Schubert, one by Maurice Duruflé, and one by Charles-Marie Widor.

Juan de Urrede, a Flemish composer active in Spain in the late fifteenth century, composed numerous settings of the Pange Lingua, most of them based on the original Mozarabic melody.



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