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These frenzied people by their very actions showed their inability to comprehend his work, and could not confer honor in this manner. It was held on May 23, at noon. On this occasion all of the Mass but the Kyrie was omitted, some Italian music being substituted. The house was only half filled at the second concert and the management lost money.
Then the litanies of the ritual were unfolded, the invocation to all the Saints, the flight of the Kyrie Eleison, calling Heaven to the aid of miserable humanity, mounting each time with great outbursts, like the fume of incense. Then the voices suddenly fell, and there was a deep silence. Monseigneur washed his fingers in the few drops of water that the Abbe poured out from the ewer.
Girolamo illuminated at Candiana a sheet with a Kyrie, which is an exquisite work, and for the same monks the first leaf of a psalter for the choir; with many things for S. Maria in Organo and for the Friars of S. Giorgio, in Verona. He executed, likewise, some other very beautiful illuminations for the Black Friars of S. Nazzaro at Verona.
"Felix, the vintagers are dining, and I, I," she said, in the voice of a child, "I, the mistress, am hungry. It is so in love, they are happy, they, they! "Kyrie eleison!" said the poor abbe, who with clasped hands and eyes raised to heaven was reciting his litanies. She flung an arm around my neck, kissed me violently, and pressed me to her, saying, "You shall not escape me now!"
A dull noise, bad to hear, resounded as from beneath a vault, and then another and another the sound of cruel blows upon a human body. Then a pause. "Wilt thou renounce it?" asked the voice of Lazarus. "Kyrie eleison, Christie eleison!" came the answer, brave and clear. "Lay on, Levi, and let thy arm be strong!"
"It is useless; without repentance and faith 'twould but increase " and the prelate paused. "Let us pray. It is all we can do." And all present knelt round the bed, while the plaintive cry arose from the lips of the prelate, and was echoed from all around: "Kyrie eleeson: Christe eleeson: kyrie eleeson."
Both the introit and communion are sung without, and the offertory with, counterpoint: the Kyrie eleison, Gradual and tract, in plain chant. The Benedictus qui venit is usually very beautiful.
The very mode of projecting the first movement, the Kyrie, shows the splendor of the conception as it took form in his consciousness. The scheme of the movement can be summed up by the antithesis being presented of humanity, weak and sinful on the one side, and the overwhelming majesty of a just God on the other.
This eternal struggle with fate, this conflict forever raging in the heart, runs through all the Symphonies, but nowhere is it so strongly depicted as in this, his last. We have here in new picturing, humanity at bay, as in the recently completed Kyrie of the grand mass.
A virgin mother gives him birth; And sin's dark bonds asunder torn, Sweet heaven again inclines to earth. Kyrie! hear! the sacred font Pours forth its saving waters free And Thou impressest on our front The sign that drives our foes away. Christe! anointed victim! Thou, Who in thy death bestowest life The healing remedy for woe Ah! earth with many a woe is rife.
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