2012 The Mayans

A Rock masterpiece for bands who want to make an impressive staging. This piece was a finalist for best metal rock piece in Los Angeles California. Based on the Mayan calendar

  • - It is a musical piece that combines the rock genre with choir, chamber orchestra, ethnic percussion and singers soloists (Soprano coloratura and female voice rock). The choir sings some parts in Mayan language.
  • - Key G minor
  • - Length ca. 10:05

Composer Moises Sánchez

Program Note

I composed this musical work in 2011 and is based on extensive research. My interest in researching the Mayan astronomical calendar began at the end of 2009, I researched the long cycle of 25,625 years, which the Mayans called the galactic day, and this was made up of 5 mini-cycles of 5,125 years. At the beginning of each mini cycle, the heart of the galaxy that the Mayans called Hunab Ku beats, and it does so with a glow, each palpitation alters the universe and the stars, causing catastrophic situations. The galactic day is made up of the galactic sunrise, galactic morning, the galactic noon, the galactic afternoon, the galactic night.
In the year 2012 we were entering a new galactic day, we were at the new dawn, at the beginning of a new era where the opportunity to take off the dirty clothes of our souls and put on renewed clothes was the message of the Mayas. The old man had to die to make way for the new man. Based on this fact I composed this piece that I consider one of my rock masterpieces.
The meaning of my piece is the reconciliation between part A and part B. Between part A and B there is a mediator and this time it is Kukulkan who is also called the spirit of the wind, Kukulkan is a highranking deity in Mayan mythology. Honduras is a Central American country with one of the most important Mayan cities in the world, this city is Copan, called The Mayan Acropolis. I chose Honduras as part A and part B its citizens and as I wrote previously Kukulkan is the mediator. This piece has 5 parts that develop the story, the third part is the one that describes the ceremonial in the Mayan Acropolis where the Mayan ancestors welcome the new sun that brings renewal.
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