II. "Imno: Pag-aalay ng Papuri" (Hymn:
Offering Praise; Gloria) focuses on the act of praise and experience
of joy, conveyed initially by drumming sounds (result of preparations
from Kyrie). A "melody of joy and ecstasy" then enters above
this drumming, with improvised moments (joy can not be contained by notated
music). Melody and drumming gradually accelerate, merge, and ascend, becoming
tremoli (rapidly repeated notes) and reaching highest register of piano,
continuing onto the wood of the keyboard: joy is not confined, but is
released into ecstatic realm of "the beyond."

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