Ill Lumen Nation
Description
In a time of darkness, music can illuminate a path of love, harmony, truth, and beauty. This piece acknowledges darkness, grapples with it, but does not wallow in it. Dark and light contend, but light triumphs in the end. In this way, we must endure until the day when our light shall return.
The piece consists of eight 16-bar sections. The first section introduces the primary theme; each of the next six explores a variation on that theme in a new key. The modulatation sequence is I-iii-ii-IV-vi-ii-V-I. This was the architectural skeleton around which the themes and harmonization were developed. The last section recaps the theme and each variation, and ends with a new concluding phrase.