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Question: This is a setting of a hymn calling upon the Holy Spirit to come into peoples' lives. Discuss how the feelings of joyful excitement and praise are created.

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﻿Mati: The feeling of great joyful praise and excitement is created by the use of solid tonality, big, diverse and rich tone colours, ascending figures and driving rhythms. The organ entry immediatly give the excerpt a grandious setting to which the choir enters with much excitement, a generally rising contour, expanding harmonies and short-long rhythmic groupings. The brass that then follow continue this on to another level of intensity in a similar fashion, with dottend rhythms, bright fanfares and rising contours. Because the music is more organic than structured the sense of estatic praise and excitement is sustained - you can feel the music growind and evolving but cannot always predict where it will go. It is gripping and overwhelming hearing every part contribute the way they do. Later in the excerpt there are cannonic entries between the vocal parts, with each entry heightening the drama adding textural layers and intensifying the atmosphere.

Please crit me! //This response is very good, it just needs to continue in more detail and cover as wide a range of elements as possible.I think the word you were after was 'grandiose'. Excellent comment about the organic nature of the music contributing to the unpredictable and growing sense of excitement. You could also mention the sudden changes in register, describe the wide variety of tone colours, the dotted note rhtyhms which provide a strong, ceremonial aspect to the atmosphere. Because theis is a 'discuss' question, you need to 'pull all stops out' to prove all the many ways the atmosphere is created. Constant references to 'joyful excitement and praise', or similar phrases, and clear links to detailed evidence in the music, are needed to convincingly persuade the reader how this atmosphere is created. Very good, but a little brief. 7/10 //