Publisher Desc.  The Kyrie or Kyrie Eleison is a musical reflection of my love for movie music and composers such as Brahms and Mahler. It's a chorale and dance for orchestra. The reflective opening represents a childhood innocence while the interrupting orchestral chorales represent loss and anguish but always a bit of hope and light. The text of the Kyrie translates to Lord Have Mercy. I think mercy is played through the motions of the chorale with the jaunty movement of the middle section. This movement acts as a prayer to oneself. I felt this was evident by the solo bassoon with sustained strings - this interrupts this chorale-like dance with falling chromatic lines by the woodwinds - this represents a sudden shift in the mood. The light is beckoned and your prayer is recited - have mercy on my soul. The line jaunty innocence dance is restated with heavier instrumentation doubled by the double reeds an clarinets only for it to slowly swirl into chaos before it is quelled by another calming prayer by two solo clarinets (this theme at rehearsal I is central to the material used in the Pie Jesu movement later on in the work) and strings. The chorale theme is quoted again only for it to be bravely interrupted by the Requiem's central hymn to remind everyone who we are mourning. The coda lightens the mood with another choral ending for the brass and lower strings. This section was heavily influenced by movie scores such as Lord of the Rings and Dragonheart. It sets up the chaos that will surely come.