Timothy Bowers
Last Words 2
Book 2
Timothy Bowers
Last Words 2
Book 2
- Instrumentation Piano and Voice
- Composer Timothy Bowers
- Edition Piano Score and Part(s)
- Publisher Queen's Temple
- Order no. QT127
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Description:
We are delighted to announce publication of three very special song cycles by Timothy Bowers. The last words of famous people, whether real or invented, exert a strange fascination. Breaking with the tradition that a song cycle is a setting of poetry, Timothy Bowers has chosen the last words of fourteen famous (in one case infamous) characters from history and two comic/ironic epitaphs by Byron as his texts. Each collection provides a short (c 7') concert work with settings ranging from fifteen seconds to five minutes duration. Book 2 is for tenor and piano and traverses the widest emotional range within one volume. The poignant last words of a King, a President, a great writer and an heroic explorer sit beside the vengeful rantings of a prisoner sent for execution.