This symphony includes a setting of a prayer that reads "Mother, do not cry, no. Most pure Queen of Heaven, protect me always." For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this symphony, which contains three lento movements. This example of "holy minimalism" ends with a series of A-major chords which its composer called "unvarying, persistent, obstinate."
ANSWER: Symphony of Sorrowful Songs [or Symfonia pieśni żałosnych; or Górecki's Symphony No. 3; or Górecki Op. 36]
[10e] Górecki's Symphony of Sorrowful Songs opens with a canon using eight different examples of these scales. These scales, which include the Dorian and Mixolydian, have the same pitches as major scales but start on different notes.
ANSWER: modes
[10m] This contemporary of Górecki is also associated with "holy minimalism." This Estonian composer's tintinnabuli style is exemplified by a piece scored for a single violin and piano playing a series of rising eighth-note triads, Spiegel im Spiegel.
ANSWER: Arvo Pärt (pairt)
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