The anonymously published 'Gyffard' is a rare example of a full polyphonic setting of this piece using faburdon, and the chorus in Stravinsky's televised opera The Flood sings parts of its text.
The anonymously published 'Gyffard' is a rare example of a full polyphonic setting of this piece using faburdon, and the chorus in Stravinsky's televised opera The Flood sings parts of its text. Berlioz described as "Ninivetish" and "Babylonian" the climax of the Judex crederis in his setting of this piece. One by Handel closely copies a setting by Urio and features a trumpet fanfare following the chorus "We believe that thou shalt come to be our judge." Bruckner's setting of this piece was written between his seventh and eighth symphonies, and Lully fatally injured himself while conducting this piece, whose text is traditionally attributed to a prayer of St. Ambrose. FTP, name this common text, a hymn often sung in celebration, which begins "We praise thee, O God".
The anonymously published 'Gyffard' is a rare example of a full polyphonic setting of this piece using faburdon, and the chorus in Stravinsky's televised opera The Flood sings parts of its text.
{Te Deum}