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
Easter Week Easter Week Easter Week is the period of seven days from Easter Sunday through the Saturday following. It follows Holy Week. In the Latin Rite of Catholicism, Anglican and other Western churches, Easter Week is the week beginning with the Christian feast of Easter and ending a week later on Easter Saturday. The term is sometimes inaccurately used to mean the week "before" Easter, which is properly known as Holy Week, and particularly confusing in this context is the secular misuse of the term "Easter Saturday" to refer to the day known liturgically as Holy Saturday or Easter Eve (the