Šarūnas Nakas

Motet

Year of composition: 1985
Duration: 10′
Instrumentation: 2S-A-T-B
Text: William Shakespeare and refrain 'Sator Arepo Tenet Opera Rotas', translated into Lithuanian by Antanas Danielius
Language: Lithuanian, Latin

CD Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre LMIPCCD015, 2002
CD Lithuanian Music in Context II. Landscapes of Minimalism. - Vilnius, Lithuanian Music Information and Publishing Centre LMIPCCD067-068, 2011

Motet is a token of love for Renaissance music. The rhythm is composed of magic squares of varying mensurations and numbers 5 and 7. As in organum, accompanying voices entwine the cantus firmus at the intervals of fourth and fifth. A bass line akin to Buddhist overtone chanting surfaces from within a peaceful meditation of voices.

Šarūnas Nakas

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