| Liturgical Use: |
Lent; Penitential Seasons |
| Remarks: |
The text of this affecting composition was assembled
using stray verses from a half-dozen separate passages
from
the Bible,
mostly
psalms. In setting this unusual text, the composer assigns
the top voice a different key signature from the lower
three voices, the practice known as “partial signatures”.
The musical result is a kind of poly-modality which heightens
the harmonic and melodic urgency in the musical expression
of the text's fervent plea. | |
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