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== Musical settings == {{see also|Mass (music)#II. Gloria}} The Gloria has been and still is sung to a wide variety of melodies. Modern scholars have catalogued well over two hundred of them used in the medieval church.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.yale.edu/adhoc/research_resources/liturgy/d_gloria.html |title=Definitions for Medieval Christian Liturgy |publisher=Yale.edu |access-date=2012-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090905001946/http://www.yale.edu/adhoc/research_resources/liturgy/d_gloria.html |archive-date=2009-09-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The [[Roman Missal]] indicates several different plainchant melodies. In addition, several "farced" Glorias were composed in the [[Middle Ages]] and were still sung in places when the [[Roman Missal]] was revised by order of [[Pope Pius V]] in 1570. These expanded the basic Gloria by, for instance, adding to mentions of Jesus Christ a mention of some relationship between him and his mother. The use of these additional phrases in honour of the [[Blessed Virgin Mary]] was so common that in editions of the Roman Missal earlier than the 1921 revision, the text of the Gloria was followed by the rubric: "Sic dicitur {{lang|la|Gloria in excelsis Deo}}, etiam in Missis beatæ Mariæ, quando dicenda est" (When the {{lang|la|Gloria in excelsis Deo}} is to be recited, it is recited in this way, even in Masses of Blessed Mary).<ref>See, for instance, page 216 of the [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_E7sPAAAAIAAJ <!-- quote=missale romanum. --> 1862 printing by Pustet]</ref> Almost all polyphonic settings of the Mass include the Gloria. In addition, there are a number of settings of the Gloria alone, including: * [[Antonio Vivaldi]], who wrote two [[Gloria (Vivaldi)|Glorias]] that survived: the widely recorded RV 589, and the less famous RV 588 * [[George Frideric Handel]], whose setting for solo [[soprano]] and strings was rediscovered in 2001: [[Gloria (Handel)|Gloria]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://gfhandel.org/gloria.htm |title=The Newly Discovered Musical Composition by Handel |publisher=Gfhandel.org |access-date=2012-03-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120206025813/http://gfhandel.org/gloria.htm |archive-date=2012-02-06 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * [[Camille Saint-Saëns]] * [[Francis Poulenc]]: [[Gloria (Poulenc)|Gloria]] * [[William Walton]] * [[John Rutter]]: [[Gloria (Rutter)|Gloria]] * Mike Anderson: [[Gloria (Anderson)|Gloria]] * [[Karl Jenkins]], who interpolates other texts alongside the standard Gloria text: [[Gloria (Jenkins)|Gloria]] A paraphrase of the text in German, the early Lutheran hymn {{lang|de|[[Allein Gott in der Höh sei Ehr]]}}, has also been commonly set to music, in the form of chorale preludes or as part of larger compositions. The free paraphrase "[[Ich lobe meinen Gott, der aus der Tiefe mich holt]]" became a 1979 hymn of the genre [[Neues Geistliches Lied]], similarly "[[Ich lobe meinen Gott von ganzem Herzen]]" the same year. The popular Christmas carol "[[Angels We Have Heard on High]]" is derived from the beginning of the Gloria, which it uses as a refrain. It has been translated into several languages. The first phrase is also present in [[Bladee]] and [[Ecco2K]]'s track '5 Star Crest (4 Vattenrum)' from their collaborative album [[Crest (album)|''Crest'']].
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