| 作曲者 | John Tavener (1944-2013) |
| タイトル | Funeral Ikos |
| 出版社 | Chester Music・チェスター |
| 楽器編成 | Unaccompanied Choir (SSATBB) |
| 楽器編成（詳細） | Vocal Score with piano accompaniment for rehearsal purposes |
| 品番 | MUSCH55676 |
| 形状 | 16 ページ |
| 演奏時間 | 12分 |
| 作曲年 | 1981年 |
| 出版年 | 1992年 |
| 出版番号 | CH55676 |
| ISBN | 9780711935693 |
A sacred work for unaccompanied SSATBB choir, using text from The Order for the Burial of Dead Priests, translated from Greek by Isabel Hapgood. It was written in 1981 when Tavener was 37. It is a serene setting of words which are probably unfamiliar to most of us and which a simple statement of the reward in Paradise for the Righteous Ones. The music shows the influence of Stravinsky, who used a similar homophonic style for some of this religious settings, but Tavener's music is, in this piece, much simpler harmonically. Indeed much of it is in unison allowing the full impact of the words to shine through. Nevertheless there is no doubt that the sensitive musicality, in which the sounds are almost just an accompaniment to the words, can only have been achieved by an extraordinary sensitive composer of deep religious conviction.