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Composer: Bowles, Paul

Night Waltz

Invencia Piano Duo

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Year of Production: Oct. 2013

Playing Time: 00:04:00

Catalogue Number: NVF0098

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Night Waltz - one of the Paul Bowles most recorded works - is distinguishable for its polymetric counterpoint and cornucopia of musical ideas. These thoughts flow freely, without being punctuated by cadences, which parallels stream of consciousness in literature. Coincidentally, 1949 is the year in which William Faulkner - an American writer known for his use of stream of consciousness - was awarded the Nobel Prize. Attentive listeners may also be able to perceive that the piece was composed after Bowles had settled in Morocco, as exotic Middle Eastern scales at times seep through the dense texture of the work.