Missa Exspectationis / Gloria

the Gloria from a parody-technique Latin mass by Antony Pitts on Henry Purcell's 'Hear my prayer' - duration: c.6'00

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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 Kyrie uses just the opening phrase of Purcell's Hear my Prayer which is heard - forwards, backwards and upside-down - at three different pitches and at three different speeds.

The Gloria follows straight on - it demonstrates the strictest application of a technique derived from Arvo Pärt, and is entirely based on the second phrase of Hear my Prayer with its alternating minor and major 3rds.