Recorded live at the Easter Vigil on March 30, 2024 at the St. Lawrence Catholic Campus Center at the University of Kansas
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Bearing the same melodic formula as the other Canticles, this one has been adorned with a drone when the verses start. The idea was this - as we work through the readings and approach closer and closer to the Gloria, it's as if little streaks of light begin to peek through the cracks of the tomb as the stone is rolled away, at whatever hour in the night it was . ("O truly blessed night, worthy alone to know the hour that Christ rose from the underworld!" - Exultet). And so the canticles that are sung between each reading progress in radiance - for example, if we did all the readings, including the one who's Canticle is Sicut Cervus, we may even think of singing Palestrina's setting as the very last music sung in darkness before it finally gives way to the organ and all the lights coming on and candles lit at the Gloria. Regardless though - this was the final Canticle we sang before the Gloria. The interval of a 4th that is formed from the reciting tone over the drone creates a particular tension that is desiring to be resolved, and even with the sweet 5ths that occur on some of the cadences and open vowels and its return to a unison on the final melisma, it still anticipates something even more glorious than this humble organum.
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