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Sheet Music: ScoreKyrie : SSAATTBB choir / music by Clare Maclean.by Clare Maclean (2006)
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Kyrie is the first movement of a Mass for unaccompanied
choir. It uses fragments and phrases of the plainsong of
Kyrie No. 9 in the Liber Usualis, and of the
Jewish melody, Kol Nidrei. This melody dates from the
sixteenth century, and there a number of different versions; I
use a phrase from the Lewandowski version of 1871, and parts of a
hypothetical 'original' version, without embellishments, posited
by Werner (Groves Dictionary of Music).
The plainsong is in D Aeolian mode, and the Kol Nidrei
fragments are in a minor mode, with tonics B and G. These scales,
along with the use of the Jewish mode ahavah rabbah on
F# (with an augmented 2nd between scale degrees 2 and 3), are
used to shape the tonality of the piece.
The Kol Nidrei melody sets the Annulment of Vows, which
is prayed at Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement. The text
of this prayer deals with human fallibility - it is wrong to make
vows, because we are not capable of keeping them - and the
expectation of divine mercy. In this it is related in spirit to
the text of the Kyrie eleison, which is also similar to
the Hoshanos prayer, "Save now - for your sake, our
God!"
Published by: Wirripang [720065007] — 1 score (19p. -- A4 (portrait))
Duration: 3 mins, 30 sec.
First performance by Sydney Chamber Choir — 29 Apr 06. Intercultural Concert of the 2006 Aurora Festival, Parramatta NSW
Includes programme notes, performance notes, and biographical notes on the composer.
First movement of a mass for unaccompanied choir.
Typeset edition.
ISMN: 720065007
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