By James Dever jamesdever Bandcamp tylerdever Bandcamp jamesdevermusic SoundCloud jamzdenver Twitter ← Requiem Previous track by this artist → Chronicles Next track by this artist.
Released 7/13/2011.
Duration: 2:16.

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General contributors:

• Erik Scheele erikscheele Bandcamp erikscheele SoundCloud jitters20 Twitter jitmakesstuff Tumblr Jitmakesstuff YouTube erikscheele.com Other ← Requiem Previous general contribution by this artist → Chronicles Next general contribution by this artist (performance)

Print or download sheet music files:

• Piano score by James Dever (original composer)

  • The Meek - James Dever.pdf (39.3 kB)

Artist commentary:

James Dever: (composer's notes)

"Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth." The Meek is the theme for the Exiles. They are the ones left to fix and save the Earth 413 years after its destruction. It starts off solemn as the concept occurs to them that it is their duty to repopulate and rebuild. As the piece goes on it gets more intense to reflect all of the shenanigans and gun pointing that occurs as they all converge and meet. After the tension dies away the mood from before is recapped before resolving at the end. However, the last run ends in dissonance, because we don't know how the exile's story will play out.

James Dever: (Bandcamp rerelease)

A really terrible engraving job on the sheet music by yours truly created a repeated note in the beginning motive that I ended up actually digging more than the original version.

The Meek continues the idea of bouncing between time signatures while trying to keep a sense of structure. Where Requiem was more about a constant pulse, I decided to play with elongated pauses to stretch the phrases.

The second section was during a time where I was really starting to love the idea of modes and modal mixture and just had fun with it. Still one of my favorite passages from the entire album!

I also really love not resolving these movements, if you haven't noticed.