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This piece is the perfect introduction to extended harmony and tone clusters for your high school choir, or a vehicle to tastefully demonstrate those techniques for your more advanced choir. All dissonances and clusters are set up with accessible voice leading and the dynamics will leap off the page, as the arc of the piece is scaled to the ranges and tessituras of each section. That being said, there are plenty of opportunities for varied interpretations to express your group's individual artistry.

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• Program Notes I think of the emotional arc of this choral piece as visiting the grave of a loved one while still in transition to a place of acceptance. The sacrosanct hesitance at the beginning of each verse gives way to a meditative repetition of tone clusters, followed by a short outburst of sorrow which then recedes back into meditative and fond remembrance. The third verse begins with the same hesitance as the first two but then propels into a deep, bittersweet cry at the peak of the entire piece, "Goodnight, dear heart,". After this outburst, we return to a texture of repetition. No longer meditative, these bittersweet repetitions constantly shift emotional weight: a heartbreak, a funny memory, a fight, a hug, their last words… the cadence however makes peace with that ambivalence. Ready to leave the grave physically, as well as to move on in our lives, a final "Goodnight" is sung.