The third movement from Heaven and Earth: A Song of Creation, a unique collaborative work by six different composers active in different repertories of Eastern Orthodox Christian sacred music that brings to life the words of Psalm 103 (LXX) with a musical unity in diversity that reflects the psalmist’s images of the unity in diversity of the divinely created order. This movement, like the first, is composed in the style of Byzantine chant, but utilizes a different technique of treating the melody: rather than having different sections of the choir carry the melody in their respective range, the wide-ranging chant employs the entire four-and-a-half-octave range of a mixed choir, handing off the unison from section to section.
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