resonation

Updated: May 29, 2025

Oft repeated is this resonation in paired harmonies, the lower phrase like an "obstinate bass." Leaving the fantasy, the voices sing in simple choral lines a hymnal song in triumphal pace, with firm cadence and answer, ending at length in the descending phrase. The full song is repeated, from the entrance of the latter, as though to stress the two main melodies.

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