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Joan Szymko is widely regarded as an outstanding composer of choral music in America today. With a catalog of over 100 choral works in print, her music is sung regularly at choral festivals and competitions across North America and abroad and for nearly two decades has been heard on stage or in sessions at every...

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Gamaya (Szymko)

Name: Gamaya (Szymko)
SKU: JS-036
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Joan Szymko

In Hinduism, a mantra is a sound, word, seed syllable, or prayer verse that is repeatedly chanted as a meditation or spiritual invocation.

Choral

treble choir

1-2 instruments, piano

slow

fall, sacred, secular, spring, summer, winter

Difficulty: 2

JS-036

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2 part voicing, piano, alto saxophone

The “Gamaya” text is commonly known as the mantra, Asato Ma Sadmagaya. In Hinduism, a mantra is a sound, word, seed syllable, or prayer verse that is repeatedly chanted as a meditation or spiritual invocation. This Vedic mantra comes from one of the Upanishads, sacred Sanskrit books likely written between 500-200B.C. These books form the philosophical and theoretical basis of the Hindu religion. Can be sung by any combination of voices.  Alto saxophone part included.

Text

Transliteration of Sanskrit text;

asoto ma sat gamaya
tamaso ma jyotir gamaya
mrityor ma amritam gamaya
Om, shanti, shanti, shanti

Translation:

From ignorance lead me to truth
From darkness lead me to light
From mortality to the immortal—lead me
Peace, in thought.
Peace, in word.
Peace, in action.

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