IN REVERENCE

IN REVERENCE
5 Songs for Soprano and Piano
on Poems by Emily Dickinson

Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company

Catalog Number
8569

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Description
IN REVERENCE is the composer’s earliest published song cycle, composed while a student at the Yale School of Music. Emily Dickinson’s poems speak of prayer, everlasting life, Heaven, and other spiritual subjects, hence the title of the cycle. Dickinson’s poems approach these serious subjects with reverence, but also with humor and hope, all aspects reflected in the music of these songs.

Text
1 – It is an honorable Thought
2 – Lightly stepped a yellow star
3 – Prayer is the little implement
4 – Papa above!
5 – The grave my little cottage is

Vocal Range
A-flat 3  :  D-flat 6

Duration
9′ 00″

Vocal Tessitura
D 4  :  D 5

Year of Composition
1985

First Performance
Fall, 1986
Yale University
New Haven, Connecticut

First Performers
Karen Burlingame, soprano
Juliana Hall, piano

Listen
Nadine Benjamin, soprano
Nicole Panizza, piano