Mournful Descending Phrases
v4
@Imre Szabó
Mournful Descending Phrases
v4
@Imre Szabó
Lyrics
[Intro]
[Instrumental]
[Verse]
[Wordless female choir humming]
Hmm—mmm—mmm
Ah—mmm—ah
[Chorus]
[Wordless female choir humming]
Mmm—ah—mmm—ah
Hmm—mmm—mmm
[Bridge]
[Instrumental]
[Outro]
[Wordless female choir humming, soft and fading]
Hmm—mmm—ah
[Instrumental]
[Verse]
[Wordless female choir humming]
Hmm—mmm—mmm
Ah—mmm—ah
[Chorus]
[Wordless female choir humming]
Mmm—ah—mmm—ah
Hmm—mmm—mmm
[Bridge]
[Instrumental]
[Outro]
[Wordless female choir humming, soft and fading]
Hmm—mmm—ah
Style of Music
18th-century sacred chamber music, dolorous and mysterious, slow measured pulse, minor-mode suspensions and mournful descending phrases; begin with a lone low cello and restrained organ, then gradually add bowed strings and a soft continuo, building into a female Gregorian-style wordless humming choir in close, solemn harmonies; archaic modal chant character, intimate reverberant stone-chapel acoustics, dark restrained dynamics, a gradual emotional swell and unresolved, fading close
