And bar 5 has that IV-V problem, where the D (third of IV) is properly tuned low and the G (fifth of V) is properly tuned high, so no one can sing it without an equal tempered instrument crashing along to force the connection.
There are at least two modern versions of the laudes, both printed in Chant Divers (see note 1) The first, the “short acclamations,” is a modern chant composition by A. Kunc which unfortunately enjoys official sanction. In an eclectic manner the music of the tricolon is composed around the common chord. The composer has rearranged the words to the following:
Christus vincit, Christus regnat,
Christus, Christus imperat.
Through this small but telling change the austere strength of the three invocations has been sacrificed for a shallow symmetry of meter which the composer apparently held to be more “pleasing.” The arrangement of Kunc’s melody in four-part harmony by Nicola A. Montani (see note 2) inflates the composition in a pseudo-Verdi style which is beyond criticism.
Your dislike for equal temperament because it causes singers to sing out of tune is just silly.
(quoted in Arthur Connick's post above) makes it sound like it might not be the best choice musically.inflates the composition in a pseudo-Verdi style which is beyond criticism.
wikipedia attributes the piece to Jan Kunc in 1933
My impression is that this transcription was an attempt to bolster the legitimacy of the A. Kunc melody in a Tra le Sollecitudini world
solfege syllables in fixed do to represent chords
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