By far the most celebrated composition of Allegri is the Miserere mei, Deus, a setting of Vulgate Psalm 50 (= Psalm 51 ).

Also belonging to the more archaic stratum of motets is Libera me Domine ( a5 ), a cantus firmus setting of the ninth responsory at Matins for the Office for the Dead, which takes its point of departure from the setting by Robert Parsons, while Miserere mihi ( a6 ), a setting of a Compline antiphon often used by Tudor composers for didactic cantus firmus exercises, incorporates a four-in-two canon.

There is a permanent choir, the Sistine Chapel Choir, for whom much original music has been written, the most famous piece being Gregorio Allegri's Miserere.

The video is accompanied by a recording of the famous Miserere by Gregorio Allegri.

On semi-doubles and those of a lesser rite the suffrages are now reduced to a single antiphon and orison which is common to all the saints heretofore commemorated, whilst the preces (" Miserere " and versicles ) formerly imposed on the greater feriæ are now suppressed.

Miserere, full name " Miserere mei, Deus " ( Latin: " Have mercy on me, O God ") by Italian composer Gregorio Allegri, is a setting of Psalm 51 ( 50 ) composed during the reign of Pope Urban VIII, probably during the 1630s, for use in the Sistine Chapel during matins, as part of the exclusive Tenebrae service on Wednesday and Friday of Holy Week.

The Miserere is written for two choirs, one of five and one of four voices, and is an example of Renaissance polyphony surviving to the present day.

Allegri's Miserere is one of the most often-recorded examples of late Renaissance music.

This translation is from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer, and is used in Ivor Atkins ' English edition of the Miserere ( published by Novello ):

The crown of a King of Arms is silver-gilt and consists of sixteen acanthus leaves alternating in height, and inscribed with the words Miserere mei Deus secundum magnam misericordiam tuam ( Latin: " Have mercy on me O God according to Thy great mercy ", from Psalm 51 ).

( For higher notes see, for example, the treble solo at the beginning of Stanford's Magnificat in G, David Willcocks ' descant to Mendelssohn's tune for the carol Hark, the Herald Angels Sing, the even higher treble solo from Gregorio Allegri's " Miserere ", and the treble part in the Nunc Dimittis from Tippett's Evening Canticles written for St John's College, Cambridge ) Many trebles are also able to reach higher notes by use of the whistle register but this practice is rarely called for in performance.

It is supposed to have included 40 canons on the then popular plainsong Miserere after arrangements by William Byrd and Alfonso Ferrabosco.

During the 1590s he was renowned as a teacher ; he and his brother established what is thought to be the first Italian-run public music school in Romeand many future composers studied with him and sang in his choirs, including Felice Anerio, Antonio Brunelli, Antonio Cifra and Gregorio Allegri ( composer of the famous Miserere ).

The zone around Corrientes avenue is known as Once after Plaza Once de Setiembre, the alternative name of Plaza Miserere ( the square in which president Bernardino Rivadavia's mausoleum is located ).

The meager green space of Plaza Miserere is usually taken up by illegal peddlers, people queuing for their bus, and preachers of all stripes.

Also, " Miserere mei Deus " ( Ps 50 Vulgate ) is said every day on which a feast does not occur.

Psalm 51 ( Greek numbering: Psalm 50 ), traditionally referred to as the Miserere, its Latin incipit, is one of the Penitential Psalms.

One of the best-known settings of the Miserere is the 17th century version by Roman School composer Gregorio Allegri.

: Western Market is also a former name for Plaza Miserere.

His compositions, of which very few have been published, were very favourable specimens of the severe ecclesiastical style ; one in particular, a ten-part Miserere, composed for Holy Week in 1821 by order of Pope Pius VII, has taken a permanent place in the services of the Sistine chapel during Passion Week.

Since the lifting of the ban, Allegri's Miserere has become one of the most popular a cappella choral works now performed.

That line was made up of one of the existing sections of line A, linking the stations of Plaza de Mayo and Plaza Miserere.

It was the last of twelve falsobordone Miserere settings composed and chanted at the service since 1514 and the most popular: at some point, it became forbidden to transcribe the music and it was allowed to be performed only at those particular services, adding to the mystery surrounding it.

Author Macedonio Fernández resided in Balvanera for most of his adult life, and held court, together with Borges, in café La Perla across Miserere Plaza (" Plaza Once ").

Its Handbook on Indulgences mentions as examples of approved formulas for an act of contrition the Confiteor, the Psalm De Profundis, the Psalm Miserere, the Gradual Psalms and the Penitential Psalms.

The entire music performed at Rome in Holy Week, Allegri's Miserere included, has been issued at Leipzig by Breitkopf and Härtel.

The Miserere was a frequently used text in Catholic liturgical music before Vatican II.

At the Casa, the Miserere from Il trovatore was sung.

Thus literate lay defendants often also claimed the right to benefit of clergy ; furthermore, as the Biblical passage used for the literacy test was always Psalm 51 ( Miserere mei, Deus ...-" O God, have mercy upon me ..."), an illiterate person who had memorized the psalm could also claim benefit of clergy.

" " But I will pray for you ," said Mr. Rogers ; and so was brought the same day, the fourth of February, by the sheriffs, towards Smithfield, saying the Psalm Miserere by the way, all the people wonderfully rejoicing at his constancy ; with great praises and thanks to God for the same.

Unofficially, the loophole was even larger, because the Biblical passage traditionally used for the literacy test was inevitably and appropriately Psalm 51 ( Psalm 50 according to the Vulgate and Septuagint numbering ), Miserere mei, Deus, secundum misericordiam tuam (" O God, have mercy upon me, according to thine heartfelt mercifulness ").

More obvious folk etymologies include the story that the coffin of St Cuthbert was dropped near Pity Me on the way to Durham, at which point the saint implored the monks carrying him to take pity on him and be more careful ; or that coming to the location during a flight from a Viking raid, a group of monks sang the 51st Psalm, the Latin version of which includes the words " Miserere mei, Deus ", which may be rendered in English as " Pity me, O God ".

An early and " celebrated " recording of the Miserere was that made in March 1963 by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, conducted by Sir David Willcocks, which was sung in English and featured the then-treble Roy Goodman.

This recording of the Miserere was originally part of a Gramophone LP recording entitled ' Evensong for Ash Wednesday ' but the Miserere has subsequently been re-released on various compilation discs.

Moreschi's Director at the Sistine was Domenico Mustafà, himself once a fine castrato soprano ( maybe finer even than Moreschi ), who realised that Alessandro was, amongst other things, the only hope for the continuation of the Sistine tradition of performing the famous setting of the Miserere by Gregorio Allegri during Holy Week.

The mausoleum of President Rivadavia in Plaza Miserere ( Once ) used to be covered in graffiti ; after a fence was erected around it, its state of repair has improved markedly.

The fifty-first Psalm ( Miserere ) was recited at the close of daily morning service in the primitive Church.

Mozart's Exultate Jubilate, Allegri's Miserere and other famous pieces from this period now sung by sopranos and countertenors were written for castrati.

# Mort tu as navré / Miserere ( lamentation on the death of Gilles Binchois, probably written in 1460 )

Modern composers who have written notable settings of the Miserere include Michael Nyman and Arvo Pärt.

The Miserere has for many years been sung annually during Holy Week in the Sistine Chapel.