Steve Schwartz <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Mendelssohn uses the Dresden Amen in the Reformation Symphony, and Bloch
>uses it as the primary motive in his Sacred Service.

And it occurs all over _Parsifal_.  The organist at my church is a
Parsifal fan and puts the 'Amen' into his improvisations along with other
quotations from the opera.  You can also find it in a lot of Anglican
church music (Stanford's morning and evening canticles in B flat come to
mind), sometimes in a truncated form with just the final ascending scale.
But I can't hear it in the Jupiter symphony.  Is it the bass line rather
than the melody which is quoted?

Virginia Knight
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