... singing in union) gives a melancholy, sombre mood to the music. However, the music modulates to Bb major in the third bar after figure 3, and later the texture thickens in the sixth bar after figure 4, with block chords played by the orchestra, and the music modulates from F minor (which it is in at figure 4) to C major at this point, which implies that the text is not as grave as the music would earlier have suggested. For the first two bars of the second hymn, the double choir are singing C in unison, before separating onto the notes of an E major chord in 2nd inversion: This emphasises the idea of "Glory", as E major is a bright chord, but also implies, due to the second inversion, that the music has not yet resolved onto the final chord of the cadence. In the seventh bar, the semi-chorus comes ...

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