Crossword-Solution: STABAT 6 letters, 27 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Such brutal opacities of accompaniment as we find in Rossini's Stabat or Verdi's Trovatore, where the strings play a rum-tum accompaniment whilst the entire wind band blares away, fortissimo, in unison with the unfortunate singer, are never to be found in Wagner's work.

The best model of all is and will continue to be--Wagner's arrangement of Palestrina's "Stabat Mater"--with marks of expression and plan of the division of the voices into semi- chorus, solos, and complete chorus.

The procession halted somewhere over in the distant: arches, the organ thundered the "Stabat Mater." Susan could only see the candles and the boys, but the priest's voice was loud and clear.

After the Mozart Symphony in D major, I made all the musicians move from their places to make room for an imposing choir, which had to sing Palestrina’s Stabat Mater, from an adaptation of the original recitative, which I had carefully revised, and Bach’s Motet for eight voices: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied (‘Sing unto the Lord a new song’); thereupon I let the orchestra again take its place to play Beethoven’s Sinfonia Eroica, and with that to end the concert.

The pathetic _Stabat Mater_, which describes the sorrows of Mary at the foot of the Cross, has been often translated and set to music.