Miserere Paraphrase

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Miserere Paraphrase is a song composed by Michael Nyman for the movie The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. The song is inspired from psalm 51, called Miserere. The song is a paraphrase because it does not follow literally the psalm. Instead, it jumps from one verse to another, mixing both Latin and English (King James) verses. See Miserere for the translation of the latin verses. more
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Michael Nyman

Michael Laurence Edward Nyman, CBE (born 23 March 1944, Stratford, London) is an English composer of minimalist music, pianist, librettist and musicologist, perhaps best known for the many movie scores he wrote during his lengthy collaboration with the filmmaker Peter Greenaway, and his multi...
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