Epitaphium Innocentum by Chris LaBenne Sheet Music for SATB Choir at Sheet Music Direct

Product Details

Artist Chris LaBenne

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Composer Chris LaBenne

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 4

Arrangement SATB Choir

Publisher C. LaBenne Music

Level 4

Product ID 1124013

Genre A Cappella Contemporary

Instruments Choir

Product Description

An acappella choral piece dedicated to the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City. Scored for SSATB choir. A dramatic Latin text setting in F minor, composed in the tintinnabuli style made famous by Arvo Pärt. Pärt calls his vocal composition technique tintinnabuli, a Latin word meaning the ringing of bells. Pärt claims that the three notes of a triad ring like bells. In tintinnabuli, the tonic triad is always present somewhere within the piece; either the root, third, or fifth of the tonic triad will always be heard. This provides the unique ability to create striking dissonances that remain unified by the underlying tonality, and resolve satisfyingly back into the tonic. This is evident when listening to Epitaphium Innocentum; the way that one or more lines drift away stepwise from the tonal center while others remain on it is jarring in motion, but very pleasing upon resolution. "We are the heroes -- we are the axis of the stars."

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