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From volume 1 of the work.

1503974A Dictionary of Music and Musicians — CredoGeorge GroveHubert Parry

CREDO is the first word of the Nicene Creed in Latin, and is the name by which it is well known to musicians by reason of the magnificent music to which it has been set by the greatest composers for the use of the Roman Church in the Service of the Mass. The traditional figure to which the first sentence is given out by the priest is

$\new Staff { \override Staff.StaffSymbol.line-count = #4 \set Staff.clefGlyph = #"clefs.varC" \set Staff.clefPosition = #1 \set Staff.middleCPosition = #1 \relative d' { \cadenzaOn \override NoteHead.style = #'neomensural \stemDown d4 b c b a d1 e4 e } } \addlyrics { Cre -- do in u -- num De -- _ um }$

and upon this Bach developed the stupendous contrapuntal chorus to those words in his B minor Mass.

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