Program Note:   

Night, Again is a tone poem depicting an insomniac’s sleepless night. There is no light in it. It was composed just before the opera Bandanna, and the ending served as the coda to the opera, following Morales’ murder of his wife Mona, beneath the chorus wailing, “Dona Nobis Pacem.”

There are four musical ideas in the piece: (1.) a melodic wedge — a handful of notes which lead inward towards, or splay outward away from a central tone; (2.) a cluster — a simultaneous sounding of adjacent pitches; (3.) a harmonic constellation of four triads — B flat major, E major, G major, and D flat major, associated with one another by (4.) the interval of the tritone — three whole steps.