Before being asked by the members of Ensemble Recherche to contribute to their then rapidly growing collection of short works utilizing, in some manner, the well-known 'In Nomine' plainchant, so widely used as the basis of instrumental consort music in the 16th Century, I had never seriously considered employing material from earlier periods of occidental music history. Whilst the immediate postwar generation of British composers chose to work intensively with medieval and renaissance models as ...