‘Codice e Musica’ is a foundation of Dutch composers and theologians. Its purpose is to let non-biblical writings, that broaden and deepen the spirituality of the biblical writings, become a part of our (spriritual) culture. We do this by producing and publishing music based on these texts.

The first publication of  foundation was an oratorio of the Gospel of Mary. The oratorio was performed on October 4^th 2003 in the city of Leeuwarden by a professional orchestra and a semi-professional choir.  You can listen hier to the openingpart of  this oratorio.  

An oratorio with parts of the Gospel of Truth has been published in 2005. The composer has dedicated his oratorium to prof. Gilles Quispel, who was very pleased. This oratorium will be performed on the 7th of Februari 2010 in Maastricht.

Our greatest project so far is the Gospel of Thomas. We have just finished a book with 12 motets using texts from logia of the Gospel of Thomas and 12 songs based on logia of the Gospel of Thomas. Five well-known Dutch poets have written 12 beautiful poetic songtexts (for solo-voice) and seven Dutch and Belgian  composers have written the music for the motets and the songs. The music has been performed on several places in The Netherlands. The first concert has been on  the 11th of  February 2007 in  'de Oerdracht'  in  Joure, followed by concerts in Rotterdam (20th of May), Oegstgeest (2nd of June), Burgum (30th of September), Barendrecht (7th of October) and De Knipe (21st of October). 

Listen here to the recording of logion 77 , logion 113 , the song  'De Waterbron' (logion 74) and the song  'Een lied van verlangen' (logion 75).

Parts of the Gospel of Thomas have been broadcasted by the Ikon-radio. You can listen to this broadcast by surfing to the archive of this radio-programm and by clicking on the second vertical banner "Beluister". 

You can listen here to the recording of the concert in Barendrecht. It gives a good impression of the concert, although the qualitiy of the recording is low. The music starts after 8 minutes. The quality of the recording gets better later on in the concert.

The Gospel of Mary, the Gospel of  Truth and the Gospel of  Thomas have been published by  Intrada-music

The oratorio of the Gospel of Mary has been translated into English.