![]() ![]() In Mass settings of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic period the Credo line is usually set for whole choir, such as in the Symbolum Nicenum (Nicene Creed) of Bach's Mass in B minor, where the composer uses plainchant as the theme for a fugue, in the later Masses of Haydn, and the Missa Solemnis of Beethoven. In Stravinsky's Mass, for example, a soloist intones the first line, which is from the plainchant Credo I. ![]() This tradition continued through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, and is even followed in more recent settings. In musical settings of the Credo, as in the Gloria, the first line is intoned by the celebrant alone ( Credo in unum Deum), or by a soloist, while the choir or congregation joins in with the second line. The Liber Usualis contains only two other settings, designated as "Credo V" and "Credo VI," which is far fewer than for other settings of the Ordinary. What is identified as "Credo I" in the Liber Usualis was apparently widely considered the only authentic Credo, and it is the element of the ordinary that was most strongly associated with a single melody. ![]() Probably because of its late adoption, and the length of the text (the longest in the Ordinary of the Mass), there are relatively few chant settings of it. It is recited in the Orthodox Liturgy following the Litany of Supplication on all occasions. It is recited in the Western Mass directly after the homily on all Sundays and solemnities in modern celebrations of the Tridentine Mass as an extraordinary form of the Roman Rite, the Credo is recited on all Sundays, feasts of the I class, II class feasts of the Lord and of the Blessed Virgin, on the days within the octaves of Christmas, Easter, and Pentecost, and on the "birthday" feasts of the apostles and evangelists (including the feasts of St. In 1014 it was accepted by the Church of Rome as a legitimate part of the Mass. " instead of "we." The text was gradually incorporated into the liturgies, first in the east and in Spain, and gradually into the north, from the sixth to the ninth centuries. An example: the autograph first page of the Symbolum Nicenum (the Credo) from Johann Sebastian Bach's Mass in B minorĪfter the formulation of the Nicene Creed, its initial liturgical use was in baptism, which explains why the text uses the singular "I. ![]()
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