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Kyrie Eleison: Meaning & History of a Timeless Christian Phrase

Note: “Kyrie Africano” is written for voices (S.A.T.B), expanded piano, and African percussions. This piece results from extensive, varied, and exhaustive research on African music and culture and the African Art Music Commissioning Project (AAMCP) workshops with remarkable facilitators. This piece brings a new approach to “cross-cultural” musical exploration, merging African and Western liturgical traditions.For this piece, the ninth-century Kyrie from the Christian Roman liturgy was translated