Choral (SATB a cappella) SKU: HL.14043287
Contemporary Church Music Series. Composed by John Tavener. Choral. Contemporary, General Worship, Sacred. Octavo. 20 pages. Chester Music #CH82830. Published by Chester Music (HL.14043287). 8.25x11.75x0.085 inches.
John Tavener 's Coplas , composed in 1970, for unaccompanied SATB Choir. ' 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. ' - John Tavener.
