In Nomine

In the Benedictus section of this mass, the Latin phrase "in nomine Domini" was sung in a reduced, four-part counterpoint, with the plainchant melody in the meane part.

They can vary in mood from melancholy to serene, exultant, or even playful or hectic (as in Tye's In Nomine "Crye", in which the viols seem to imitate the call of a street hawker).

[1] Starting in 1999, the Freiburg new-music organization ensemble recherche began commissioning an ongoing series of short In Nomine compositions for the festival Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik.

The series is dedicated to Harry Vogt [de], director of the festival since 1989, and is collectively titled the Witten In Nomine Broken Consort Book.

[3] Some of the notable composers who have contributed pieces to this series to date include Brian Ferneyhough, Georg Friedrich Haas, Toshio Hosokawa, György Kurtág, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf, Gérard Pesson, Robert H.P.