This works opens vigorously, the solid chords sounding rather like a fanfare,

appropriately enough for a text beginning "Hail, our King." After this

entrance, the voices separate to a more usual work of this time

period, one with both syllabic and melismatic passages, as well as monophonic

and polyphonic ones. Throughout the composition, however, it retains something

of the sturdiness of the entrance, giving it a strong, solid feel, rather than

a mystical one.

"Hail, our King, who alone is compassionate towards our faults, obedient

to his Father, let himself be led to the cross like a lamb to the slaughter.

To you be triumph and victory, to you the highest praise and honor and crown.

My Lord and my God, in your hands, Lord, I commend my spirit."

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