High Windows
, by Powers, Anthony- ISBN: 9780193456969 | 0193456966
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- Copyright: 10/10/1996
for high voice and piano The words for this cycle are drawn from poems by Philip Larkin. There are three lyrics about the natural world and two typically down-beat townscapes, framed and linked with a setting of the visionary final lines fo the title poem. The whole suggests a musical form as close to a Baroque cantata as to later song cycles.