Kyrie (from Mass 1992)

SATB w/ a single chime and Eucharistic bells

Duration 5:30

Text from the Mass

Notes

The final project for my Master’s Degree in Music Composition back in 1992 was to write a Mass. I experimented with sounds that the human body and voice can make that are not often used in traditional choral music. Each movement uses different techniques. The entire Mass has never been performed together, however most movements have been performed separately.

In Kyrie I incorporated many percussive sounds using the consonants in the text along with sliding vocals. Much of it is in an aleatoric fashion.

Text

Kyrie eleison.
Christe eleison.
Kyrie eleison.