“Dies Irae” • Why Does It Appear In So Many Movies?

URING the Sacred Music Symposium each year, we spend hours explaining to the participants how Gregorian chant is the basis for Western music. We have an entire series on this, including expensive slides. Even the “B-Flat” and the “Natural” symbols come from Cantus Gregorianus. Readers of Views from the Choir Loft know we avoid posting YouTube videos, since everyone in the world can already search YouTube without our help.

However, the YouTube video below (about the Dies Irae) is worth watching. It was created by “VOX”—an organization I know absolutely nothing about:

PLEASE OVERLOOK anything considered inappropriate in the video.

Watershed is not the creator of this video.

See also the 2014 article by Veronica Brandt.