One section of this work symbolizes divinity with a natural horn, while the composer's previously used four-tone "circulatio" motif appears twice to contrast suffering with mercy.
One section of this work symbolizes divinity with a natural horn, while the composer's previously used four-tone "circulatio" motif appears twice to contrast suffering with mercy. A soprano addresses God the Father while the tenor sings to Jesus in intermingled lines during the Gloria, symbolic of the intermingled Trinity. A sixth voice is added in the (*) Sanctus section and an eighth in the Osanna, after the Kyrie is sung with only five voices. Despite the composer's Lutheranism, this work was composed in Latin for the Catholic king of Poland. For 10 points, name this eighteenth-century setting of the liturgy by Johann Sebastian Bach.
One section of this work symbolizes divinity with a natural horn, while the composer's previously used four-tone "circulatio" motif appears twice to contrast suffering with mercy.
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