Agnus Dei (Barber) Agnus Dei (Barber) Agnus Dei (Lamb of God) is a choral composition in one movement by Samuel Barber, his own arrangement of his "Adagio for Strings" (1936). In 1967, he set the Latin words of the liturgical Agnus Dei, a part of the Mass, for mixed chorus with optional organ or piano accompaniment. The music, in B-flat minor, has a duration of about eight minutes. Barber's "Adagio for Strings" began as the second movement of his String Quartet, Op. 11, composed in 1936. At the request of Arturo Toscanini, he arranged it for string orchestra, and in January 1938 sent
Vitex agnus-castus cause great damage to the growth and the generative development of "Vitex agnus-castus". The insect feeds on chaste tree by sucking up the contents or puncturing them. As well chaste tree is the only known host (especially in Israel) for "Hyalesthus obsoletus". This cicada is the vector for black wood disease of grapevines. "Hyalesthus obsoletus" prefers "V. agnus-castus" as a host to the grapevine. In this case chaste tree can be used as a biological control agent by planting it around vineyards to trap the "Hyalesthus obsoletus". "V. agnus-castus" was found not only to be an appropriate food source for