Holy Week funeral marches, hymns or "marchas" written for the occasion. Music for the Holy Week includes Lamentations of Jeremiah the Prophet, Responsories for Holy Week, Passion oratorios and Easter oratorios. Tomás Luis de Victoria's "Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae" (1585) contains settings of 37 texts for the Catholic liturgy of the Holy Week. Carlo Gesualdo's "Responsoria et alia ad Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae spectantia" (1611) contains settings of all 27 Tenebrae responsories (for matins of Maundy Thursday, Good Friday and Holy Saturday), and of a few other text for use in lauds of the Holy Week. "Leçons de ténèbres" as composed by various French
Days of week on Hebrew calendar the "four gates". Since three arrangements cannot occur within the fixed calendar, most holidays can each occur on one of four possible days. All the holy days and festivals fall in the months of Nisan through Tishrei, months one to seven. These months always have the same number of days, alternating 30 and 29. The next two months are Cheshvan and Kislev, months eight and nine. Both or either of these months can have either 29 or 30 days, allowing for adjustments to be made and the schedule in the coming year to be manipulated. (On a regular year, Cheshvan