Chants of the Vatican Graduale - MusicaSacra

Sexagesima Sunday 101
longer rests on the lower a and g, but on c. In fact, it thrice extends
above this, with psdllere even to e 1 , for both the song and the harp should
sing out loud and clear. The psdllere nomini tuo is taken as one single
thought. The melody rises from g to c each time. In tuo, cb ab a of the
preceding word seems to be re-echoed, unless one should wish to consider
them an amplification of Domino and (confite)-ri. The first part of
Altissime is bracketed between the ascending and the descending major
chord / a c. To this the second part must be joined directly, with a slight
pause after the first pressus and after a. The third part should be sung
crescendo to the third pressus. A sense of abiding joy fills the first phrase,
holy enthusiasm is the mark of the second, while the final strains try to
bring out the full flavor of the word Altissime.
Analyses, 7, 20 f.
COMMUNION (Ps. 30: 17, 18)
1. Illumnia faciem tuam super 1. Make thy face to shine upon
servum, 2. et salvum me fac in tua thy servant, 2. and save me in thy
misericordia: 3. Domine, non con- mercy: 3. let me not be confounded
fundar, quoniam invocavi te. O Lord, for I have called upon thee.
By Holy Communion the true Sun arose in our hearts, the Sun of
grace, our Redeemer, to transfigure, vivify, and glorify us.
The melody of the first phrase is, so to say, monopolized by the
accented syllables, but in such a way that the logical emphasis is well
brought out in faciem. In the second phrase the pleading changes to an
expression of joyous confidence. God's mercy—how it differs from the
pity shown us by men! "Your mercy," so runs the Lord's accusation
(Osee 6:5), "is as a morning cloud, and as the dew that goeth away in
the morning." But His own mercy is lasting, unstinted, inexhaustible.
Our present melody praises this divine mercy in a manner which might
almost be called exultant. The third phrase is no longer a plea; it is
confiding faith become vocal, calling out, as did Job: "I know that my
Redeemer liveth." I shall not be put to shame. Domine, non repeats the
melody of misericordia. The second half makes use of the melodies of
the first half.
SEXAGESIMA SUNDAY
INTROIT (Ps. 43:23, 26)
1. Exsurge, quare obdormis, Do- 1. Arise, why sleepest thou, O
et ne repellas in Lord"? arise, and cast us not off to