Listening Chart 30



						A regular drum beat has accelerated from the previous slow movement.

						Theme: two sopranos sing the entire text of three psalm verses--a b c c'

						Voices in harmony, percussion. Quiet sustained chords in the orchestra below, shifting at irregular intervals

						Variation 1: two-part canon a b c c'

						Maracas enter Variation 2: four-part canon; each psalm verse is repeated many times

						b--starts with a very brief punctuation (instruments stop).

						c--starts with another brief punctuation (instruments stop). Each voice sings c five times (c' is absent).

						Variation 3: two voices with clarinets (drums enter a little later) Some new high notes for soprano

						Instrumental interlude. Intense, irregular accents by the strings and electric organ

						Variation 4: Voices return; from now to the end, they are more intense. New melody. High notes for the soprano

						Climactic note--higher still--for the soprano

						Coda: "Halleluyah" repeated again and again. Electric organs, bells enter. Intensity increases.

						After a punctuation, more "Halleluyahs"; bells prominent

						. . . plus one more climactic fast "Halleluyah"

						Abrupt stop (a cessation, not a cadence)