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02 Paradise, Purgatory and Pandemonium

by Malcolm Atkins

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The piece was written for eight members of The Sixteen, a choir and at least seven people reading texts (and making bestial noises).

The score is entirely based around the tune l’homme arme, an inspiration to the writers of beautiful Renaissance polyphony which in its lyric expresses the genocidal and hysterical shadow of the time.

Paradise is expressed through arrangements of texts from the mass, purgatory and pandemonium (devil’s everywhere) by the use of texts describing Christian intolerance, bestial sounds, and the use of material which firmly accentuates the devil’s interval – the tritone.

I hope, through this piece, to capture my ambivalence towards the religious music of the Renaissance, which I have always found deeply moving in its intensity and spirituality, but equally disturbing in its support of a religion which was so violent and intolerant.

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released October 13, 2020

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