Talk:Sancta Civitas

I created this page more to have a place to talk about the piece than to cover the piece in great detail. I just put down the bare bones that came to mind readily.

I know this was RVW's favorite among his choral works, but I for one find it maddeningly inconsistent. The beginning and the ending are terrific, no doubt about it, but the whole "Babylon-the-Great-is-fallen" business just goes on and on, in my view. There is also one passage (the last big climax of the work) where there are about a dozen measures as I recall that got re-written between the p-v score publication and the recordings, but I can't find any information on why the score hasn't been re-engraved, let alone published in an orchestral format. Wspencer11 14:48, 7 July 2006 (UTC)

Taverner's Bible
What does it mean to say it is based on texts from Revelation, "as well as Taverner's Bible"? Presumably it is meant that one of the sources is the Book of Revelation as found in Taverner's Bible? MathHisSci (talk) 13:37, 23 September 2012 (UTC)