Work Information
| commissioned by the Cheltenham Festival |
| Work Notes |
tape available on hire |
Publisher |
Chester Music Ltd |
| Category |
Chorus a cappella / Chorus plus 1 instrument |
Year Composed |
1970 |
| Duration |
11 Minutes |
Solo Voice(s) |
Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass |
| Chorus |
SATB (16 voices) |
Orchestration |
tp |
| Languages |
Latin |
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| Full Score(s): |
CH08888 |
Full Score(s): |
Not available |
Programme Note
Coplas is a short anthem for voices and tape. It belongs to a much larger work called 'Last Rites' which I have been thinking about for about a year. It is based on the mystical idea of St. John of the Cross which obsesses me - "the more I live the more I must die." Hence the deliberately static nature of Coplas.
In once sense Coplas is a prolonged decoration of the 'et sepultus est' cadence from the Crucifixus in Bach's Mass in B minor. In another sense I think of it not so much as my music but a way of listening to Bach's music.
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