The Lamentation Entry from Grove Music Online Lamentations. The Old Testament verses of mourning of the prophet Jeremiah (Threni, Lamentationes), portions of which were sung in the Roman Catholic liturgy until around 1970 as lessons for the first Nocturn of Matins on Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday. Along with the great responsories, the Lamentations are musically the most important texts of TENEBRAE and were set polyphonically by major composers as early as the 15th centur [...]
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