A short motet using 3 texts: Latin, English and the Greek Kyrie . The music depicts the opposition of the sacred and the secular and the reconciliation of the two through the cross, moving from tone clusters to widely spaced harmonies; indeterminate metre to strong, accented rhythm; expressive harmonies to the still and detached; polyphony to homophony.
In addition the mixing of texts I took other techniques found in liturgical music dating from the later Middle Ages as my inspiration. I also used more contemporary techniques, exploring the effects generated by polyphonic lines moving in and out of phase with each other; momentary parallel unison and octaves which then diverge slightly, giving a brittle edge the the musical fabric and a sense of dislocation and distortion (similar in visual terms to a fractured image seen in a broken mirror).

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