This is one of a series of nocturnees I've been writing over the last few years. Year End Nocturne, written at the end of 2020, is a hopeful contemplation of the year's turning. Its quiet chords dissolve into an upward line at the end as the old year fades into the new. It also has a subtle musical conceit: the note "D" (natural) is completely absent in the piece. This is a nod to the absence of a certain someone whose first name begins with "D".