Mokranjac wrote his Second Requiem in F sharp minor for a mixed choir on the occasion of celebrations in memory of Vuk Karadzic. It was performed for the first time at that memorial service on September 20th 1888. Contrary to most of his other compositions of church music, based more or less on Serbian folk chant, this Requiem is an almost entirely original work. This explains a considerably greater use of harmonic and contrapuntal means, especially in comparison with works Mokranjac wrote at about the same lime (the early Song-wreaths) where the choice of means was necessarily limited by the latent harmonic characteristics of folk tunes.      Elements of Serbian folk chant are to be found in the Requiem very rarely, as for instance in the opening theme of the Njest Svjat (O Lord my God, there is none holy as Thou) sung by the bass.