In "Tehillim," a setting of verses from four Psalms sung in Hebrew, that pulse is provided by clapping, rattles and other percussion.
The three works on the first half of the program were played without pause (or applause), and the Ives proved an ideal prelude to "The Wound-Dresser," John Adams's 1989 setting of verses from a Civil War poem by Walt Whitman.
It also erupts into a monumental, timpani-driven setting of verses from the Bhagavad Gita, a hymn of praise to Vishnu: "At the sight of this, your Shape stupendous, / Full of mouths and eyes, feet, thighs and bellies, / Terrible with fangs, O mighty master, / All the words are fear-struck, even just as I am".
The mihrab had two sets of verses from the Quran inscribed in the conch, which is still intact.
Havergal Brian allowed the form of his Fourth Symphony, subtitled "Das Siegeslied" (Psalm of Victory), to be dictated by the three-part structure of his text, Psalm 68; the setting of Verses 13 18 for soprano solo and orchestra forms a quiet interlude between two wilder, highly chromatic martial ones set for massive choral and orchestral forces.
George Crumb's Apparitions, Elegiac Songs, and Vocalises for Soprano and Amplified Piano (1979), a setting of verse by Walt Whitman, is filled with clusters, including an enormous one that introduces three of its sections.
So as not to distract from the music, Prokofiev jettisoned the original set of rhyming verses and wrote a simple prose narrative for the story.
This visual accusation of sodomy provoked Caravaggio and his friends, including Gentileschi, to compose a set of satiric verses mocking Baglione as Giovanni Coglione ("Johnny Bollocks") in no uncertain terms.
The last ritual of taking the milk, going to the stream silently, and taking food at a friend's house suggests that other people, most likely women, were aware and supportive of that ritual, as the presence of a sleeping husband is essential in the second set of stepping verses.
