What happens to the "reciting tone" in each successive verse of Josquin's setting of the Penitential Psalm Miserere mei, Deus?
a. It descends by step.
b. It descends through the circle of fifths.
c. Nothing, it stays on the same pitch.
d. It ascends by step.
a
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