| 作曲者 | Tyshawn Sorey |
| タイトル | Death |
| サブタイトル | for Mezzo Soprano and Piano |
| 出版社 | Edition Peters・ペータース |
| 楽器編成 | Mezzo Soprano and piano |
| 品番 | 979-0-3007-6236-4 |
| 言語 | 英語 |
| 形状 | 8 ページ |
| 演奏時間 | 5' |
| 出版番号 | EP 68790 |
| ISMN | 979-0-3007-6236-4 |
Death by Tyshawn Sorey was commissioned by the L. A. Opera for a streaming premiere by mezzo-soprano Amanda Lynn Bottoms in February 2021, with pianist Howard Watkins. Its text, by the great Black poet Paul Laurence Dunbar, imagines just a glimmer of light dawning over a bleak, nightmarish landscape, haunted by death, which the composer explicitly connects to "the current conditions and precarity of Black life in America in the 20th and 21st centuries". (Dunbar himself died in 1906 at the age of 33). This slow and melancholy setting expands the poem into a five-minute lament.