World Without End

Though the "Te Deum" chant has been quoted often in historical settings of the text, here it is kept as a primary and inescapable base upon which all the instrumental motives are built and developed. The voices, by contrast, take the more recent English translation of the "Te Deum" text that originated in the 1549 Book of Common Prayer. In this way the new is set against the old in a light that shows the virtues of each, and spans the thousand-year-old history of this storied text.