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vespers| The seventh of the eight canonical hours in the Catholic Church; also, the seventh Roman Catholic office (or non-Eucharistic service) of the day. It is also used by the Anglican Church to refer to evensong. Claudio Monteverdi and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composed notable settings for this service. |
| The phrase Sicilian Vespers refers to the massacre of the French rulers in Sicily in 1282, signalled by vesper bells on Easter Monday. |
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Amari, Michele
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von
Bott, Catherine
Brixi, Franz Xaver
Bruson, Renato
canonical hours
Charles I of Anjou
Goehr, Walter
Kirkby, Emma
Landon, H C Robbins
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Magnificat
Marini, Biagio
Monreale
Monteverdi, Claudio Giovanni Antonio
Parrott, Andrew
Redlich, Hans
Sicilian Vespers
Tosti, Paolo
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| No, little angel, it were better that I should see you tomorrow at Vespers. Despite the doctor's orders that she should not go out early in the morning, Natasha insisted on fasting and preparing for the sacrament, not as they generally prepared for it in the Rostov family by attending three services in their own house, but as Agrafena Ivanovna did, by going to church every day for a week and not once missing Vespers, Matins, or Mass. They're singing for vespers, and how carefully that merchant crosses himself |