Description
This beautiful collection of meditative chants was composed by Santa Fe musician Linda Larkin. It contains 3 chants with texts from the Psalms which have descants in Hebrew, 3 chants from Matthew with Aramaic descants and 3 chants from the Koran with Arabic descants. Thus Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions are included. The chants are recorded on the CD Chanting for Peace and correlate with Praying with the Earth: A Prayerbook for Peace by author John Philip Newell. Examples of texts used are “Come to me, you who are weary,
carrying heaven burdens and I will give you rest” from Matthew and “For every soul there is a Guardian watching it” from the Koran. Musical notation includes chant melodies, descants and accompaniments written for folk harp or piano, with chord charts for guitar and other instruments.