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APPENDIXSelection and Arrangement of Crashaw Texts for Lo, the Full Final SacrificeFinzi SettingLauda Sion (L), Adoro Te (A)Stanza Text Text Stanza1 Lo, the full, final SacrificeOn which all figures fix’t their eyes.The ransomed Isaac, and his ram;The Manna, and the Paschal Lamb.2 Jesu Master, just and true!Our Food, and faithful Shepherd too!3 O let that love which thus makes theeMix with our low Mortality,Lift our lean Souls, and set us upConvictors of thine own full cup,Coheirs of Saints. That so all mayDrink the same wine; and the same Way.Nor change the Pasture, but the PlaceTo feed of Thee in thine own Face.4 O dear Memorial of that DeathWhich lives still, and allows us breath!Rich, Royal food! Bountiful Bread!Whose use denies us to the dead!5 Live ever Bread of loves, and beMy life, my soul, my surer self to me.6 Help Lord, my Faith, my Hope increase;And fill my portion in thy peace.Give love for life; nor let my daysGrow, but in new powers to thy nameand praise.7 Rise, Royal Sion! rise and singThy soul’s kind shepherd, thy heart’s King.Stretch all thy powers; call if you canHarps of heaven to hands of man.This sovereign subject sits aboveThe best ambition of thy love.Lo, the full, finall, SACRIFICEOn which all figures fix't their eyes.The ransom'd ISACK, & his ramme;The MANNA, & the PASCHAL Lamb.Jesu Master, Just & true!Our Food, & faithfull SHEPHARD too!O by thy self vouchsafe to keep,As with thy selfe thou feed'st thy SHEEP.O let that love which thus makes theeMix with our low Mortality,Lift our lean Soules, & sett us upConvictors of thine own full cup,Coheirs of SAINTS. That so all mayDrink the same wine; and the same WAY.Nor chang the PASTURE, but the PLACE;To feed of THEE in thine own FACE.Amen.O dear memoriall of that DeathWhich lives still, & allowes us breath!Rich, Royall food! Bountyfull BREAD!Whose use denyes us to the dead;Whose vitall gust alone can giveThe same leave both to eat & live;Live ever Bread of loves, & beMy life, my soul, my surer selfe to mee.Help, lord, my Faith, my Hope increase;And fill my portion in thy peace.Give love for life; nor let my dayesGrow, but in new powres to thy name& praise.RISE, Royall SION! rise & singThy soul's kind shepheard, thy hart's KING.Stretch all thy powres; call if thou canHarpes of heavn to hands of man.This soveraign subject sitts aboveThe best ambition of thy love.L 12L 13L 14A 6A 5L 1
808 Lo the Bread of Life, this day’sTriumphant Text provokes thy praise.The living and life-giving bread,To the great twelve distributedWhen Life, himself, at point to dieOf love, was his own Legacy.9 O soft self-wounding Pelican!Whose breast weeps Balm forwounded manAll this way bend thy benign floodTo’a bleeding Heart that gasps for blood.That blood, whose least drops sovereign beTo wash my worlds of sins from me.Come love! Come Lord! And that long dayFor which I languish come away.When this dry soul those eyes shall see,And drink the unseal’d source of thee.When Glory’s sun faith’s shades shall chase,And for thy veil give me thy Face.[Lo, the full, final SacrificeOn which all figures fix’t their eyes.]Amen.Lo the BREAD of LIFE, this day'sTriumphant Text, provokes thy prayse.The living & life-giving bread,To the great twelve distributedWhen LIFE, himself, at point to dyOf love, was his own LEGACY.O soft self-wounding Pelican!Whose brest weepes Balm forwounded man.Ah this way bend thy benign floudTo'a bleeding Heart that gaspes for blood:That blood, whose least drops soveraign beTo wash my worlds of sins from me.Come love! Come LORD! & that long dayFor which I languish, come away;When this dry soul those eyes shall see,And drink the unseal'd sourse of thee,When Glory's sun faith's shades shall chase,And for thy veil give me thy FACE.AMEN.L 2A 7
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HISTORY, ANALYSIS AND PERFORMANCECO
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. . . as surely as birds must sing,
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LIST OF FIGURESFigurePage1. Constru
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LIST OF TABLESTablePage1. Section A
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HISTORICAL OVERVIEWIt was the summe
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3Hussey suggested a Eucharist theme
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Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice was at
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7miniaturist is now generally recog
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9Hardy (agnostic fatalist), Wordswo
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11According to Christopher, his fat
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14Examination of FormSection AThe a
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17However the arrival of A major at
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19Figure 7. Reduction of measures 1
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21Stanford, being of his generation
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23unique contour of these lines, a
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25Figure 12. Rising major third key
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27with the downward leap of a minor
Page 38 and 39: 29Figure 15. “O Let that love”
Page 40 and 41: Figure 16. “Jesu Master” organ
Page 42 and 43: 33Crashaw’s images of “Food”
Page 44 and 45: 35Harmony then, falls among every o
Page 46 and 47: 37Section CAn immediate resetting o
Page 48 and 49: Figure 21. “Weeping” organ gest
Page 50 and 51: 41another shortened verse and fitti
Page 52 and 53: 43unison/octaves. The preceding org
Page 54 and 55: 45Figure 28. “Stretch all thy pow
Page 56 and 57: 47Arriving at the word “love” a
Page 58 and 59: 49agogic stresses to achieve a fitt
Page 60 and 61: 51Table 4Section D - Thematic Struc
Page 62 and 63: 53famine, feeding its young with it
Page 64 and 65: 55global humanity en masse, but mor
Page 66 and 67: 57Figure 37. “And that long day
Page 68 and 69: 59Figure 39. Reduction of Section B
Page 70 and 71: 61sublime heavenly and musical asce
Page 73 and 74: PERFORMANCE CONSIDERATIONSPrinciple
Page 75 and 76: 66and 16 to clarify structural punc
Page 77 and 78: 68To add further contrast with the
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Page 81 and 82: 72pairings. A lift at the end of th
Page 83 and 84: 74for the tenor soloist be placed a
Page 85 and 86: 76the word “chase” followed by
Page 87: 78Finzi always had a sense that he
Page 91 and 92: 82_____ . The Composer’s Use of W
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