page_title: Litany
section_title: Musical settings
hierarchical_section_title: Litany / Musical settings
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vierge noire de Rocamadour. Photo © Roby&#160;✉ prise le 7 octobre 2004. Licence GFDL. Grand format sur demande à l'auteur. Catégorie:Image de Rocamadour
context_page_description: Litany, in Christian worship and some forms of Judaic worship, is a form of prayer used in services and processions, and consisting of a number of petitions. The word comes through Latin litania from Ancient Greek λιτανεία, which in turn comes from λιτή, meaning "supplication".
context_section_description: Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Litany of Loreto, 9 settings, H82 (1680), H 83 (1683-85), H 84 (1690), H 85 (1688-90), H 86 (1690), H 87 (1690), H 88 (1690), H 89 (1690), H 90 (1690).
  Henry Dumont, Litany of Loreto (1652)
  Karol Szymanowski, Litany to the Virgin Mary Op.59 (1933)
  Francis Poulenc, Litanies de la Vierge noir. He wrote in 1936 Litanies à la Vierge Noire (Litanies to the Black Virgin) after a pilgrimage to the shrine of Rocamadour, setting a French local pilgrimage litany.
  American rapper, singer, songwriter, and record producer Kanye West composed a litany in his song Water released on October 25, 2019.
caption: The statue of the venerated Black Virgin at Rocamadour
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