Dona nobis pacem (Latin for "Grant us peace") is a phrase in the Agnus Dei section of the mass. The phrase, in isolation, has been appropriated for a number of musical works, which include:
Classical music edit
- "Dona nobis pacem", a traditional round
- Dona nobis pacem, fugue by Ludwig van Beethoven (now thought genuine), Hess Anh. 57 (1795)
- Dona nobis pacem, cantata by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1936)
- Title of the third movement of Symphonie Liturgique by Arthur Honegger (1945)
- Title of a choral work by Ann Loomis Silsbee (1981)[1]
- Dona nobis pacem for choir and orchestra by the Latvian composer, Pēteris Vasks (1996)
- Title of section of Adiemus V: Vocalise by Karl Jenkins (2003)
Literature edit
- "Dona Nobis Pacem" is repeatedly quoted in Graham Greene's 1938 novel Brighton Rock by its antihero Pinkie Brown.
- "Dona Nobis Pacem" is used in Graham Greene's 1966 novel The Comedians.
Other edit
- Included in Bobby Darin's 1960 Christmas album The 25th Day of December
- The title of a song, from the Present from Nancy LP by the Dutch band Supersister (1970)
- At the end of Pray Your Gods by Toad the Wet Sprocket (1992)
- Included in an arrangement of "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" recorded by Wayne Watson on One Christmas Eve (1994)
- A song performed by cast members (as an impromptu choir) in the 1978 M*A*S*H Christmas episode "Dear Sis."
- Bass guitarist Michael Manring performs an instrumental version on the 1993 Windham Hill compilation A Winter's Solstice IV.
- Clarinetist Richard Stoltzman performs a song on the 1996 Windham Hill compilation The Carols of Christmas.
- A setting by David Fanshawe, on the 1994 recording of African Sanctus.
- One track of the album No Boundaries, by Ladysmith Black Mambazo (2006)
- Track 12 of the album Whiskey Tango Ghosts, by Tanya Donelly (2004)
- The phrase is used by the Doctor - season 4, episode 6 of Doctor Who, "The Poison Sky" - when speaking in code to Donna Noble who is trapped on the TARDIS by the Sontarans. (Original airdate: 3 May 2008)
- Sister Steven, a character in the comic strip 9 Chickweed Lane repeatedly uses the phrase when her patience is being tried.
- The phrase is repeated in the song "Old City (Instrumental)" on the album Instrumentals by the Shanghai Restoration Project (2008).
- The title of a track in the Max Richter score for the HBO show The Leftovers.
- The title of a composition by Motoi Sakuraba in Tales of Destiny 2 and featured throughout the series.
- A song performed by an unnamed family in season 3, episode 11 of The Handmaid's Tale, "Liars".
- Referenced in the second half of the song "She Was Naked" (1970) by Supersister
References edit
- ^ Cohen, Aaron I. (1987). International encyclopedia of women composers (Second edition, revised and enlarged ed.). New York. ISBN 0-9617485-2-4. OCLC 16714846.
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