J. Lee Graham

I suppose sleepless nights are good for something.

Here’s my C major in five voices, set as an a cappella choral Kyrie eleison. I was trying for something in an early 18th Century Italian “antique”� style emulating Palestrina, but through the prism of 300 years ended up with something that at times sounds more like Rheinberger than Albinoni. Whatever the case, here ‘tis...and it is what it is.

I found this subject challenging to work (especially in a choral context), but also amenable to such bells and whistles as simultaneous harmonic statements of the subject, inversion, and the longest stretto I’ve ever written. Fun stuff.

I’ve included a PDF in case someone would like to see the text underlay.