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It is in the Credo that the use of static homophonic writing is most effective. ‘Et incarnatus’ is set entirely in very severe, slow chords following a dramatic musical descent at ‘descendit de caelis’. ‘Et iterum venturus est’ echoes the motet’s ‘spiritum veritatis’ in its trumpeting rhythms, and the ‘Alleluia’ figure appears at ‘et vitam venturi’, as it does also in the bouncing ‘Hosanna’ of the Sanctus. The Agnus Dei, perhaps unexpectedly, turns to an atmosphere of calm and serenity that is not really present elsewhere in the Mass.
from notes by Ivan Moody © 1989