


As Crumb states, "There are several allusions to tonal music in ''Black Angels'': a quotation from Schubert's "Death and the Maiden" quartet (in the ''Pavana Lachrymae'' and also faintly echoed on the last page of the work) an original Sarabanda, which is stylistically synthetic the sustained B major tonality of ''God-Music'' and several references to the Latin sequence ''Dies Irae'' ("Day of Wrath"). Despite his short lifetime, Schubert left behind a vast oeuvre, including more than 600 secular vocal works (ma. Franz Peter Schubert ( 31 January 179719 November 1828) was an Austrian composer of the late Classical and early Romantic eras.
