5 Songs for Soprano and Piano
on sonnets by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Publisher
E. C. Schirmer Music Company
Catalog Number
8568
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Description
“How Do I Love Thee?” follows a narrative arc, beginning with a proclamation by the speaker against the love she feels, after which that love becomes too great to disavow. Throughout the cycle, the speaker’s love grows and ends with a declaration of love that will live beyond the lives of the speaker and the object of her love, a love that lives forever.
Texts
1 – Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
2 – How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
3 – Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make
4 – Say over again, and yet once over again
5 – I thank all who have loved me in their hearts
Year of Composition
2015
Duration
17 minutes
Dedication
Martha Guth
First Performance
September 29, 2018
Contemporary Undercurrent of Song Project
Princeton, New Jersey
Martha Guth, soprano
Erika Switzer, piano
Listen
Martha Guth, soprano
Erika Switzer, piano
How Do I Love Thee?: Unlike are we, unlike, O princely Heart!
How Do I Love Thee?: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
How Do I Love Thee?: Pardon, oh, pardon, that my soul should make
How Do I Love Thee?: Say over again, and yet once over again
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How Do I Love Thee?: I thank all who have loved me in their hearts
[no recording of this song is available]