Attached is a relatively simplistic prelude I wrote as a first attempt, I-can-see-all-the-moving-parts exploration of building a meditative style of organ music built around basic melodic and harmonic ideas, with interest primarily added through metrical contrast and perhaps even polyrhythmic construction.
The piece is dedicated to Prof. Godwin Sadoh, a man who has been very kind and gracious to me, and was directly inspired by much of his work in adapting Nigerian sacred tunes into organ voluntaries (see his Nigerian Suites), and the title means "Holy Spirit" in the Yoruba language.
Here I was trying, I emphasize, to construct a beautiful piece from as few elements as possible used judiciously. Let me know what you think.
The melody is strictly pentatonic; the accompaniment is not. This allowed me to express identical melodic ideas over contrasting harmonic backgrounds, which yielded some interesting colors, even when sticking to near relatives of the key.
I've been playing with taking it just a touch faster than the tempo indication.
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