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Luke Mayernik
Graphite Publishing
IKON
Captures that sense of deep spiritual awe and wonder that juxtaposes sound with silence.
SSAATTBB a cappella
Composer’s Notes
In Eastern Orthodox Spirituality, icons are windows into the heavenly realm. They are an instrument with communing with the Divine. Icons tell the stories of humanity’s past and present illuminating visions of what is to come. With that established, ‘IKON’ has attempted to capture that sense of deep spiritual awe and wonder that juxtaposes sound with silence. The piece provides an initial theme, and then over time begins to expand, grow, and elaborate upon the primary feeling of innocence and bliss. “IKON” is a great journey into the unknown, not just of contemplating heaven or the idea of it, but the revelation and meditation that stirs within us. Beginning simply in a 3-part, first inversion style, “IKON” proceeds to push the limit of possibility with complex, but at the same time, simple divisi, broadening the vista of sight.
Text
Alma Redemptoris Mater, quæ pervia cæli
Porta manes, et stella maris, succurre cadenti,
Surgere qui curat, populo: tu quæ genuisti,
Natura mirante, tuum sanctum Genitorem
Virgo prius ac posterius, Gabrielis ab ore
Sumens illud Ave, peccatorum miserere.
Alma, Alma, Alma…
– Hermannus Contractus
Translation:
Loving Mother of the Redeemer,
gate of heaven, star of the sea,
assist your people who have fallen yet strive to rise again.
To the wonderment of nature you bore your Creator,
yet remained a virgin after as before.
You who received Gabriel’s joyful greeting,
have pity on us poor sinners.
Loving, Loving, Loving…
– trans. Mark I. Miravalle
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