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The largely homophonic and syllabic word setting in ‘Laudate nomen’ aptly responds to Cranmer’s ideal, as expressed in a letter of 1544 to Henry VIII, that musical settings of sacred texts should not be florid or melismatic, but rather that there should be ‘as near as may be, for every syllable a note’.
from notes by Nicholas Marston © 2016
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