low-chanted

Updated: January 24, 2026

Lento is a soft fugal chant on elemental theme; there is all the solemnity of cathedral service; after the low-chanted phrase follows a tremendous blare of the brass. The repeated chant is followed by one of the earliest, characteristic themes of the first scene.

Philip H. Goepp - Symphonies and Their Meaning; Third Series, Modern Symphonies