Four Dickinson Songs
Friday, February 10, 2012 at 8:34PM Song Cycle: Will There Really Be A Morning?, I’m Nobody, She Died, If I...
1996, with new editions in 2019 | soprano/piano; mezzo-soprano/piano; contralto or countertenor/piano; tenor/piano; baritone/piano; bass/piano
Poems by Emily Dickinson, approximately 9 minutes total.
New editions finished in March 2019 for more voice types and with updated markings and layouts are now available for PDF purchase at my site at MusicaNeo.com
New note regarding If I...
On July 31, 2020, The New Era Voice Festival sponsored by The M Institute for the Arts in DC, presented "In Conversation with Lori Laitman” — and Tracy Cox and I spoke about American art song, women in music, and other topics. Tracy and pianist Thomas Morris performed selections from my Four Dickinson Songs, and in the final song, Tracy sang my setting of the word “fainting” a different way than I had written it — but I loved it, and wondered why I hadn’t thought of this previously.
So, as an alternative, the "ing" of the word “fainting” in m. 11 and m. 31, can be sung on the last 8th note instead of as written.
Thank you, Tracy and Thomas!
Alternate notes for Tenor in Songs 1 and 3:
Song 1: m. 24 the low Bbs can be sung up an octave
Song 3: m. 68-70 — the low Bb can be sung up an octave.
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