Heaven-Haven

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SATB divisi
8’00”-10’00”
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Heaven-Haven originates from spectral analyses of original settings of Gerard
Manley Hopkin's poem by the same name. The deconstruction of the sound of
sung poetry, and it's reconstruction in an abstract form reflects a meditative
chant on the mysteries present within our everyday speech. Hopkins himself
coined a term to describe the iterative exploration of internal mysteries:
inscape.

The harmonies to the theme were a direct transcription of a selective filtering
of a recording of the sung melody for a specific collection of frequencies
within the singable range. The filtered recording was then further processed
and transcribed into standard musical notation.

The vowels selected for singing reflect the prominance that the overtone had
in the recording (Oo being weak, Ah being strong.) The entrance of noise is a
transcription of the tape delay's feedback loop entering disarray as the different
parameters were gradually automated to it's extremes.

Forces

SATB divisi

Text

Heaven-Haven (1864)

A nun takes the veil

I have desired to go
Where springs not fail,
To fields where flies no sharp and sided hai
lAnd a few lilies blow.

And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

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