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THE REVISED ORATORIO.


of that same Recitative: bar 16 (accompaniment) is to be thus:—

Bar 22 (accompaniment) is to be thus:—

Bar 24 the voice is to be thus : —

face must be veil-ed.

and bar 27 (the last) is to be thus in the voice

for He draw-eth near.

"Pray give your attention to all such passages of the words which I wrote in pencil in the arrangement. I think they will all require a new translation, or a modification of the old one. I always added the quotations. There are also some different (and I am sure) better words in No. 21 where I could not write them in pencil, but you will easily see and I hope adopt and adapt them. It is in the slow movement, the passage of Isaiah liii., 1, 'Aber wer glaubt uns'rer

( III )