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Graham Hair: Passacaglia on the chorale 'Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist' by J.S. Bach for piano [Printed Music]
£29.99
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Catalogue Number
NMP1272
For Solo Piano
34-page A4 wire-bound Score
Duration: c.15 mins
ISMN No: 979-0-708219-22-4
Passacaglia on the chorale ‘Komm, Gott Schöpfer, Heiliger Geist’ by J S Bach is based on a chorale melody derived from the famous plainsong hymn Veni Creator Spiritus. This is the ‘ground bass’ on which this Passacaglia is built. However, like many Passacaglias in the Canonic Repertoire, the theme often strays into the upper voices of the texture, and because of the relative length of the theme, it has something of the sense of a set of variations as much as of a Passacaglia. The chorale melody modifies the plainsong melody somewhat by moving its third cadence from the sub-dominant to the dominant, thus creating something of a sense of the confluence of authentic and plagal modes. In some variations I have modified the tune further, to create Phrygian and other modal structures, authentic and plagal. Finally, each of the 12 variations bases the melody on a different tone-centre (plus its authentic or plagal structures): encompassing all 12 tone-centres (B-flat, E, F-sharp, E-flat, F, A, D, C-sharp, G, A-flat, B, C) over the course of the piece.
I met the great pianist Martin Jones as a consequence of writing the Concert Study Wild Cherries and Honeycomb as a test-piece for the Scottish International Piano Competition, circa 1998. Martin heard about this piece from the chairman of the competition jury, Bryce Morrison, and this eventually led to my writing more Concert Studies over the next fifteen years. © Graham Hair
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