Credo Rhetorical Analysis

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Fourthly, in “Credo,” measures 24-30, the liturgical text should be “Et in unum Dominum Jesum Christum,” but the autograph has the altos singing “Credo in unum Dominum filium” instead. The “Jesum Christum” is omitted, and this is the only point in the liturgical text of the Credo where either of these two names appears. Dvořák wrote his Credo without either of them in his autograph. However, the publisher changed the text according to the liturgical text. Moreover, they also added the musical notes on measure 24 in order to fit the “new text.” See below the scanned images of the scores (Examples 4.16 –

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