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Thanks to you both!

Yes, Jer, I found it on IMSLP. It's still under copyright here (in the US) but I'll pretend I'm a Canadian student of music while I'm looking at it. I have a killer English Canadian accent (and I speak French with a Quebecois accent), so I'll just plead guilty and say I'm "sore-y."

***Edit: This post is misleading. My native English is with an American accent. I can imitate a Canadian accent pretty well.

oh god, forget it.
just the vocal score, last time I checked, was $200 US.
the publisher is Schott, renowned for their serious price gouging.

ah, teh part I wanted to link to starts at 24 minutes. the grand fugue "Lo, Body and Soul".

I'm going to try and link the big fugue from Hindemith's Requiem (Youtube seems to have changed how things are linked)

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_Iu6xW8oT1Y" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>

oh well, this is screwed up but... click on the linky part of the above address (the youtube.com/embed part) and it should open a new window for you at the right spot in the score.

Hindemith has always been a huge influence on my own music, even though I am also not particularly fond of Germanic music (with a few very rare exceptions.) My other main inspiration has always been Samuel Barber, whom I had hoped to study with when I was younger.

Thanks for your comments, Mark! There are indeed some "jazz" chords in these pieces. I'm not a jazz fan per se, but I do like using those 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, 13ths, etc. in moderation. It just adds another layer to the music while at the same time providing that added edgy dissonance my soul adores.

What would a composer be, after all, if he didn't write music he enjoyed himself?