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In the Sky, II. The moon forever waxes and forever wanes.

from Origin Unknown by Kevin J. Cope

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This piece came from my long standing desire to write a piece based upon text that had an underlying subtext running vertically that thematically ran against or altered the meaning of the horizontal text. I contacted poet Hannah Eagleson about writing something with this in mind and she came up with these three beautiful poems.

"What if the sun that warms will prove to wither?"
With each of these three pieces I sought to emphasize or draw attention to the vertical text in a different way. For this movement the vocal melody is simple and stepwise and never melismatic, except for when it reaches the vertical subtextual words which are always melismatic, include non-step-wise leaps, and are always triplets.

The guitar part adds to the underlying subtext by creating a spiraling/orbiting effect texturally and also represents the idea of orbiting by only reusing music from the first seven measures which is then manipulated to sound very different while unconciously reminding the listener of its cyclic nature. The piece ends with the guitar combining all of the vocal sub-textual melodies into one melody in the final measures.

lyrics

The sun will give us respite, sharing rule with the
Gentler guardian of the night, the kindly moon.
Less fierce, but still eternal, her beam forever
Tends our fragile leaves, and keeps them as she waxes
Mellow with warm light. We blossom in this place and
Weave anew our peace, to interlace forever
In this world, where love still grows and beauty never wanes.

Vertical subtext: Last word of each line.
"The moon forever waxes and forever wanes."

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from Origin Unknown, released October 15, 2020
Rachael Lipson, soprano
Kevin J. Cope, guitar
text by Hannah Eagleson

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Kevin J. Cope Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Guitarist that loves all kinds of music, as long as it's awesome. Writes music that is also awesome.

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