Hail Mary loosely based on Arcadelt's three part madrigal "Nous voyons que les hommes". Even though Protestant Christianity generally avoids any special veneration of Mary, access to the beautiful and culturally significant tradition of Marian music is facilitated by substitution texts. These texts are intended to replace the words of the standard "Ave Maria", preserving word boundaries and syllable stresses, so that music written for the former text can be sung with the latter. A famous setting for the Orthodox version of the prayer in Church Slavonic (Bogoroditsye Djevo) was composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in his "All-Night Vigil". Hail Mary The Hail
Hail the Conquering Hero original songs by Preston Sturges: Other songs in the film include two written by Frank Loesser and Robert Emmett Dolan: "Have I Stayed Away Too Long" and "Gotta Go to Jailhouse". The score also contains excerpts from "Hail the Conquering Hero" from "Judas Maccabeus" by George Frideric Handel. "Hail the Conquering Hero" had a number of working titles on its way to the screen. An early title was "Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition", and "Once Upon a Hero" and "The Little Marine" were also used. Although "The Great Moment", which had been filmed before "Hail the Conquering Hero",