Greetings All— I've newly arranged a version of Kyrie IV for our church.
It is available in two forms: 1.) the fuller form which includes the original Gregorian invocations (to be sung by a schola) which precede the cantor / people calls and responses. 2.) a simplified version which is just the call & response of the truncated melody. This latter is great for non-choral masses & school children.
Because of how it is designed, it can be sung easily with or without the Gregorian invocations, which means that it could be used at choral & non-choral masses (basically, you could sing the simple version all the time and then embellish it when the choir is in attendance).
I decided that I wanted to do a Kyrie that was more Gregorian in essence, but since I'm trying to build up the school & church to full Gregorian ordinaries, I figured this would be a nice middle ground, where the melody is easily digestible, yet still directly derived from the structural pitches of the Gregorian original. Hearing the original and the simple versions side-by-side, it's easy to hear how the latter is descended from the former. Ultimately, this is not Kyrie IV in a strict sense; it is a distillation and choral embellishment of thereof. YMMV, but I figured a few of you here might be interested.
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