| The kyrie is long and elaborate, without any sustained subject. |
| Traditionally, the Kyrie is a prayer in which individuals ask God for mercy. |
| I came in during the Kyrie and played the end of it, and, when the priest had finished intoning the Gloria, I played a cadenza. |
| I would you could see his face, kyrie, it is that of Judas Iscariot. |
| The second verset of the Kyrie, for example, is a fugue on the reed stops based on the chant melody. |
| Thus his kyrie is not the mere opening of a stately pageant. |
