The CHOIR is a symbolic
representation of the divine emanation, the heavenly
symphony, the music of the spheres, then Archibishop
Becket, the ORGAN spreads divine Word, mission of the
Church.
The PERCUSSIONS show the feelings of the whole
mankind; at last the WOODS with their sibilant sonority
create a parallelism between the Four Temptations and
the biblical snake. The music is original, an
elaboration of three Gregorian themes: Dies irae,
sequentia mortuorum, is related to the murder of Becket,
and two themes by Hildegard von Bingen
(1098-1179), contemporary to the set of the play. She
was a nun, a healer, a poetess and a musician.
