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the Credo from a parody-technique Latin mass by Antony Pitts on Henry Purcell's 'Hear my prayer' - duration: c.9'00
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Rather like a fractal diagram each part of this Mass setting magnifies a smaller and smaller section of the original than the one before: decoration assumes structural importance and then - just when all seems to be utterly and fantastically different - the familiar shape of the original re-emerges.
The Credo is chanted very simply on a cycle of some 17 chords (which are vertical slices of favourite harmonies from Hear my Prayer). In the first section, declaring belief in God the Father, this cycle is unfolded mainly in single notes, one per syllable. During the statements concerning God the Son, these single notes are stretched out and overlapped, creating thicker and thicker chords until the moment of the Incarnation; at "Crucifixus" the Purcellian harmony is suddenly revealed and then gradually becomes thinner and thinner. In the final section, which refers first to God the Holy Spirit, what's left of the chord cycle is stretched out - one chord per phrase - and a new chromatic texture begins to develop until it takes over completely. The Amen is a strict canon in seven parts at the interval of a 2nd, of which only four voices ever sound at once, over a pedal F: the final chord is that of Hear my Prayer.
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THE GRAMOPHONE
"His is a compositional voice of real personality and imagination (no surprise to those of us who have admired Pitts's work as a truly original producer at BBC Radio 3)....new music that has immediate appeal without ever relaxing into the 'easy' or the saccharine"
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"a composer with a special love for all manner of dizzying textural pile-ups and naughty harmonic contradictions..."
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I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And of all things visible and invisible: And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Only-begotten Son of God, Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men, and for our salvation, came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, AND WAS MADE MAN, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried. And the third day He rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven: And sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And He shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose Kingdom shall have no end. And I believe in the Holy Ghost, The Lord, and Giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father [and the Son], Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the prophets. And I believe One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church; I acknowledge One Baptism for the remission of sins; And I look for the Resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. Amen.
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