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Aniara song 103

Mixed choir a cappella

Bohlin, Jonas S

SATB div. a cappella

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"Aniara song 103 is part of a suite of three choral works with texts from Harry Martinson's Aniara. The other two songs are number 13 and 101. Song 103 is the closing song of the space epic. Together they have a duration of about 15 minutes.

There is a coherence that binds all three works into a unity. It is a dystopian story about man's self-destructiveness described through the eyes of the 50's somewhat naive technological future belief and belief in authority. In the music there is an ongoing harmonic progression that moves through all keys. It is a new way of using major/minor harmonics that form a unique harmonic flow. The first part, song 13, has a distinct speaking/narrative character. The second part, song 101, consists of longer musical lines and is more like a lamento. In the third part, song 103, the two previous expressions are mixed and form a more dramatic and changing musical form.

Chromatic Congruence – all colors in balance, is the unifying harmonic center of gravity in music. In a specific twenty-four-step pattern, it moves through all keys, generating fields of shifting colors with fleeting associations to historical music. A web of harmonic progressions where root notes are temporary and final chords do not exist.” - Jonas S. Bohlin