Name: Copley, Peter: Die Nacht ist Kommen
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Copley, Peter: Die Nacht ist Kommen

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Arrangement: meditations on a chorale melody for wind quartet
Edition Type: score and parts
Publisher: Composers Edition
Catalogue Number: ce-pc2dn1
Pages: 68
Date Published: 15th Dec 2021

The chorale melody ‘Die Nacht ist Kommen’ can be found in Albert Riemenschneider’s collection of J.S.Bach’s complete chorale harmonisations (number 231). An arrangement of this version opens the present work and closes it but what happens in between is not so much a meditation on Bach as on the melody itself. Every section of the piece uses the melody in some form and some of the transforming techniques are analogous to those used by Bach in his Chorale Preludes and Chorale Variations. However, I was not in any way trying to write ‘Neo-Baroque’ music but simply to take the melody, as Bach did, as my starting point and also as a point of return.

‘Die Nacht ist Kommen’ was mostly composed in 2007 and is dedicated to the Southern Winds quartet.

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