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OT: Gloria Patri

2011-01-10 by Mike Dickson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb6MdBEMdVg

From the album 'Basilica' - www.mikedickson.org.uk/basilica

I suppose this is how Thomas Tallis might have sounded if he had access to an Eminent, and Elka Rhapsody, a Korg PE2000 and a Freeman String Symphonizer.

I really love this piece - it has a really out-of-sorts harmony near the beginning and never lets up from that angular beginning. The bass works as a counterpoint to the main melody (as opposed to just being an accompaniment) and the tenor and alto lines act almost like a call-and-response.

He got a lot of mileage out of four voices, our Tommy did.

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Mike Dickson, Edinburgh

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